[net.sport] Bulgaria '85

nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) (01/22/86)

Date	Opponent		Location *	Result	Competition **

31/1	Jalisco Select		Guadalajara	1-2	fr.
5/2	Switzerland		Queretara	1-0	fr.
6/2	Poland			Queretara	2-2	fr.
6/4	East Germany		Sofia		1-0	WCQ
17/4	West Germany		Augsburg	1-4	fr.
2/5	France			Sofia		2-0	WCQ
1/6	Yugoslavia		Sofia		2-1	WCQ
25/8	Corinthians		Los Angeles	4-3	fr.
28/8	Mexico			Los Angeles	1-1	fr.
4/9	The Netherlands		Herenveen	0-1	fr.
25/9	Luxembourg		Luxembourg	3-1	WCQ
11/10	Rumania			Rumania		1-4	fr.
16/10	Greece			Salonika	2-0	fr.
16/11	East Germany		Karl Marx Stadt	1-2	WCQ

* Sofia is the only home ground
** fr=friendly, WCQ=World Cup Qualifier

1985 Record: 7 wins 5 losses 2 draws

Even though they knocked Yugoslavia out of the World Cup, I am
rather unimpressed with this Bulgarian team.  I doubt if they will
go very far.

Note that two players have been givel life suspensions (Borislav
Michailov and Plamen Nikolev) and one player has been suspended
for a full year, including the World Cup Final (Nasta Sirakov).

Caps:  Michailov, Koev, Dimitrov (G), Zdravkov, Sadakov, Gotchev, Sirakov,
Mladenov, Ababov, Irlav, Frikolov, Tanov, Iskrenov, Velitchkov,
Metodlev, Iontchev, Petrov, Getov, Illiev, Nikolev, Patchev,
Zelyaskov, Kostadinov, Gospodinov, Niekov, Kerchev, Valov, Diakov,
Kolev, Dimitrov (E).
-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	{ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa

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