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Hristo Stoichkov rejects Bulgarian Football Union role

Thu, Jan 22 2009 16:40 CET byNick Iliev 288 Views

Former Barcelona and Bulgarian national football team star Hristo Stoichkov has declined an invitation to join the board of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU), which is to be confirmed at the BFU congress later in January, reports in Bulgaria said.

Stoichkov, whose disastrous stint in charge of the Bulgarian national team ended in his acrimonious departure half-way through the Euro 2008 qualifying cycle. BFU is run mainly by the team that finished fourth in the 1994 World Cup, but Stoichkov, the star of that side, appears to have rebuffed the latest approach to play a bigger role in how BFU is run.

Stoichkov has received an invitation from BFU president Borislav Mihailov to join the BFU executive board, said Hristo Portochanov, member of the board.According to BTV, Stoichkov was also offered a vice-president position at the BFU, but he also rejected that.

That is not to say that Stoichkov plans to challenge the current executive, giving his support for Mihailov's administration, saying that "the only competition to Mihailov is Mihailov himself," as quoted by Dnevnik daily.

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