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Marian Hristov Personal information Full name Marian Hristov Date of birth July 29, 1973 Place of birth Botevgrad, Bulgaria Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Playing position Midfielder Club information Current club Balkan Youth career PFC Levski Sofia Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1993–1994 Balkan 19 (6) 1994–1995 Slavia 26 (8) 1995–1997 Levski 56 (19) 1997–2004 1. FC Kaiserslautern 146 (28) 2004–2006 VfL Wolfsburg 15 (4) 2008– Balkan 18 (3) National team‡ 1998–2007 Bulgaria 45 (6) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 November 2008.
† Appearances (Goals).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 28 August 2008Marian Hristov (Bulgarian: Мариян Христов) (born July 29, 1973) is a Bulgarian footballer, who is currently playing for PFC Balkan Botevgrad of the Bulgarian B PFG.
Career
Hristov's first club was PFC Balkan Botevgrad. He later played with Slavia Sofia (1994–95), Levski Sofia (1995–97), and has been champion of Germany with Kaiserslautern in 1998, UEFA Cup Semi-final: 2001 and Champions League, Quarter-final: 1999 (1997–2004). He also was the DFB-Pokal finalist in 2003.
For Bulgaria, he played at the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2004.
By March 27, 2007, Hrıstov has retired from international football. Marian Hristov had earned 45 caps and scored 6 times for his country.
He has also expressed an interest in coaching his country.
External links
- (German) Profile at transfermarket.de
Bulgaria squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup 1 Zdravkov • 2 Kishishev • 3 T. Ivanov (c) • 4 I. Petkov • 5 Yordanov • 6 Yankov • 7 Kostadinov • 8 Stoichkov • 9 Penev • 10 Balakov • 11 Iliev • 12 Mihaylov • 13 Ginchev • 14 Hristov • 15 Zafirov • 16 Nankov • 17 Stoilov • 18 Borimirov • 19 Bachev • 20 G. Ivanov • 21 Kirilov • 22 M. Petkov • Coach: BonevBulgaria squad – UEFA Euro 2004 1 Zdravkov • 2 Ivanov • 3 Kirilov • 4 I. Petkov • 5 Zagorčić • 6 Kotev • 7 Borimirov • 8 M. Petkov • 9 Berbatov • 10 Dimitrov • 11 Lazarov • 12 Kolev • 13 Peev • 14 Chilikov • 15 Hristov • 16 Manchev • 17 M. Petrov • 18 Pažin • 19 S. Petrov (c) • 20 Bojinov • 21 Janković • 22 Stoyanov • 23 Ivankov • Coach: MarkovCategories:- 1973 births
- Living people
- Bulgarian footballers
- 1998 FIFA World Cup players
- UEFA Euro 2004 players
- PFC Slavia Sofia players
- PFC Levski Sofia players
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern players
- VfL Wolfsburg players
- Bulgarian A Professional Football Group players
- Fußball-Bundesliga players
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- Bulgarian expatriate footballers
- Bulgaria international footballers
- Bulgarian football midfielder stubs
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