Comment by Zhelyu STANKOV, Sport Topic:
This BFU congress wouldn't have been interesting. And it really wasn't that much for the wide football audience. But it still was.
This tour of the national team to the east wouldn't have been interesting. And really, this topic doesn't concern the same wide audience at all. But it still became interesting before it started. Or rather, when those called up were announced. And it became even more interesting with the first ones who refused. The first, because Gruev and Petkov may not be the last.
But in order. The interesting thing at the BFU congress was that President Gonzo (you will understand below why we call him that) once again mentioned that he hopes to have a regular government soon. Hehe, this is not his first time. The president of the football headquarters has previously shared his hope that Bulgaria will have a Council of Ministers elected in a regular, not an official manner. “What can we talk about with the official authorities, tomorrow they will be replaced and let's do it again“, these words of President Gonzo were an answer to the questions about a new national stadium. And what has changed since then? Absolutely nothing. Another series of ideas were put forward about where exactly it would be good to build such a stadium. Now with the current government, by the same logic, there is no point in debating. We are waiting for the elections, new authorities and new ideas.
And a new national stadium again through a crooked macaroni. And when it came to the caretaker government of Prime Minister Gyurov, President Gonzo explained something about the Advisor, without naming Dimitar Berbatov, who was his competition for the post of president of the Bulgarian Football Union. The President and the Advisor! It's good, isn't it? Did we once assume that the two strikers of Levski and CSKA would rise to the heights of President Gonzo and the Advisor? Well, there is a difference in the origin of the nicknames, because Georgi Ivanov had this nickname given to him by Kiril Domuschiev, which, of course, carries more weight.
We are going back a little to the new national stadium and making a reference to the current one. At the arena next to Orlov Most, a seven-figure renovation of the track is currently being done and here we are making an appeal. Leave a few euros for replacing the tunnel from which referees, players and coaches come out and return to the locker rooms, respectively. This is now dangerous and a prerequisite for accidents. Some kind of plastic, almost nylon structure, around which the more boisterous spectators gather, stomp and push at the referees and the football players, and one day there will be trouble again. Years ago, a spectator tried to break through the roof and succeeded. We're closing this bracket.
Oh, what did President Gonzo think hours after the congress when a video leaked on the Internet, in which they filmed the interior of Advisor Berbatov's car and a gun was brandished inside. Dimitar probably has a firearms permit, he knows why. But Georgi Ivanov will next time replace the Advisor with the Sagittarius. Let's note, however, that in his capacity as advisor to Prime Minister Gyurov on sports issues, Berbatov makes a good impression in his communication and proposals to the federations. It is an honor for him to share with us his self-assessment that he is not fit to be a sports minister. There was no and no way we will hear any admission from President Gonzo that he is not up to the level of a BFU boss.
And we jump to the national team. Georgi Ivanov explained on Friday that by 2030, which is still a commitment with a certain deadline, we will already have another representative team, if by then all the ideas and strategies for the development of football work. Man, are you serious?! The absolute mockery of Bulgaria playing with some hard-to-pronounce names of other countries cannot be a good start to any strategy. Also a mockery of everyone is the failure to invite players from Ludogorets for this so-called tour. They are tired, yes. They need to gather strength for the season finale, and they have the energy. And that yes. But are the others annoyed? Yes. Do they think that the BFU, or more precisely some lobby in the BFU tolerates Ludogorets? Yes. Is the saved trip of Ludogorets to Montana and back part of this? Yes. Is the withdrawal of the match with Spartak Varna on Thursday, so that the Ludogorets spring break can start earlier, the same thing again? Yes.
Well, look, Iliya Gruev's refusal to travel with the national team is no longer part of the same thing. We won't be extreme before we see whether the Leeds player will attend the Footballer of the Year 2025 ceremony, but it is expected that his boycott will be, because he is one of the main favorites, the other is Ivaylo Chochev. But we have brought it to that point, these are our footballers. They have raised three horns and are already boycotting. We remember how at the last ceremony, slightly annoyed and dissatisfied, Gruev threatened that next year we will see each other on the same stage, expecting a rematch. Well, I wonder if we will see each other. If not, we also have a new nickname in the game - Boycott Gruev. But the forecast is that we will not see each other, because somehow the best one will not play in the national team. That is, the second in the ranking will boycott the tour, and the first will rest.