Georgi Pachedzhiev
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 1 March 1916 | ||
Place of birth | Sofia, Bulgaria | ||
Date of death | 12 April 2005 | (aged 89)||
Place of death | Sofia, Bulgaria | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1932–1936 | Sportklub Sofia | ||
1937–1943 | AS 23 Sofia | ||
1944–1946 | Chavdar Sofia | 9 | (6) |
1946–1950 | Levski Sofia | 36 | (11) |
1950–1953 | Stroitel Sofia | ||
International career | |||
1935–1950 | Bulgaria | 9 | (2) |
Managerial career | |||
1956–1960 | Levski Sofia | ||
1960–1962 | Bulgaria | ||
1968–1970 | AC Omonia | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Georgi Pachedzhiev (Bulgarian: Γеорги Пачеджиев; 1 March 1916 – 12 April 2005) was a Bulgarian football manager who coached Bulgaria at the 1962 FIFA World Cup,[1] the first ever time that Bulgaria did reach the finals. As a footballer, he won the most trophies while playing for Levski Sofia, and was the top scorer in the A Group in 1939 with fourteen goals. He died in April 2005.[2]
Honours
[edit]- Player
- Bulgarian A PFG: 1935
- Bulgarian A PFG: 1947, 1949
- Bulgarian Cup: 1947, 1949
- Bulgarian Cup: 1941
- Bulgarian Cup: 1952
- Individual
- Bulgarian A PFG top goalscorer: 1939 (14 goals)
- Coach
- Bulgarian Cup: 1956, 1957, 1959
- Cypriot First Division: 1966
References
[edit]- ^ 1962 FIFA World Cup Chile
- ^ "Bulgarian Coaching Legend Dies". novinite.com. 12 April 2005. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
External links
[edit]- Georgi Pachedzhiev at EU-Football.info
Categories:
- 1916 births
- 2005 deaths
- Bulgarian men's footballers
- Bulgaria men's international footballers
- First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
- PFC Levski Sofia players
- Men's association football forwards
- Bulgarian football managers
- PFC Levski Sofia managers
- AC Omonia managers
- Expatriate football managers in Cyprus
- Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
- Bulgaria national football team managers
- 1962 FIFA World Cup managers
- Bulgarian expatriate football managers
- Footballers from Sofia
- 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen