Angel Chervenkov

Angel Chervenkov ( _bg. Ангел Червенков) (born 10 June 1964 in Bolyarovo) is a Bulgarian former footballer and current football manager, since August 2007 coaching Scottish Premier League side Hearts.

As a footballer, Chervenkov played as a defender for Tundzha Yambol (1980–1981), Armeets Sofia (1981–1984), PFC CSKA Sofia (1984–1987), Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa (1987–1989), PFC Etar Veliko Tarnovo (1989–1994) and Montana (1994–1996). In Bulgaria's top division, the A PFG, Chervenkov had 298 matches and 40 goals. He won the championship twice, in 1987 with CSKA and in 1991 with Etar, once finished second (with CSKA in 1985) and once third (with Etar in 1990). With CSKA, Chervenkov has two Bulgarian Cup trophies (1985 and 1987) and two Cup of the Soviet Army trophies (1985 and 1986); he also won the only Bulgarian Football Union Cup with Etar in 1991. In the European tournaments, he has featured in 6 matches, scoring once (in one of his two matches for Etar, the rest being for CSKA). Internationally, Chervenkov has 5 caps for the Bulgaria national team.

During his coaching career, Chervenkov has worked in CSKA's youth academy (1991-2001) and has been in charge of PFC Cherno More Varna (2001-2002), PFC Minyor Bobov dol (2002-2003), PFC CSKA Sofia (2003-2007), FBK Kaunas (Apr-2007-Jul-2007), since August 2007, currently a coach of Hearts