Vasil Metodiev

Vasil Metodiev
Personal information
Date of birth	6 January 1935
Place of birth	Sandanski, Bulgaria
Date of death	29 July 2019 (aged 84)
Place of death	Sofia, Bulgaria
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
National team
Teams managed
1973	Lokomotiv Sofia
1978–1980	Lokomotiv Sofia
1981–1983	Pirin Blagoevgrad
1983–1985	Levski Sofia
1987–1988	Levski Sofia
1990–1991	Levski Sofia
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Vasil Metodiev (Bulgarian: Васил Методиев; (6 January 1935 – 29 July 2019)[2] was a Bulgarian football midfielder who played for Bulgaria in the 1966 FIFA World Cup.[3] He also played for Lokomotiv Sofia. Legendary coach of Levski Sofia, where he won three Bulgarian championships in 1984, 1985 and 1988, two Bulgarian Cup titles in 1984 and 1991, two Cup of the Soviet Army titles in 1984 and 1988, including one treble in 1984. In 1984–85 season, as coach of Levski, he eliminated German champions VfB Stuttgart for the European Cup, which makes Metodiev the only Bulgarian coach to have knocked out a Bundesliga winner.

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