Kostadin Vidolov

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Kostadin Vidolov
Personal information
Full name Kostadin Vidolov
Date of birth 2 May 1970 (1970-05-02) (age 38)
Place of birth    Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Height 1.75m
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current club PFC Beroe Stara Zagora
Number 21
Youth clubs
1980-1988 Maritsa Plovdiv
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1989-1993
1993-1996
1996
1997-1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2003
2004-2005
2005-2007
2007
2008-		 Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Botev Plovdiv
CSKA Sofia
Bursaspor
Botev Plovdiv
CSKA Sofia
1. FC Union Berlin
Levski Sofia
Botev Plovdiv
Spartak Plovdiv
Beroe Stara Zagora		 112 (24)
76 (19)
15 (1)
77 (5)
23 (7)
20 (8)
73 (17)
11 (1)
85 (25)
12 (1)
   
National team
Bulgaria 8 (1)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Kostadin Vidolov (Bulgarian: Костадин Видолов) (born 2 May 1970) is a Bulgarian footballer currently (as of January 2008) playing for Beroe Stara Zagora as a midfielder.

[edit] Career

Vidolov was born in Plovdiv and started his youth career in the popular local team Maritsa. A young prospect, he transferred to the more popular Lokomotiv Plovdiv in 1989. Vidolov made more than 100 appearances, scoring 24 goals for Lokomotiv. He has established himself as the playmaker in the side. In June 1993 he transferred Botev - the side that he supported as a kid. For the "canaries" Vidolov played between until 1996, making 76 appearances and scoring 19 goals. He was called in the Bulgaria national football team while playing for Botev. He was sold to CSKA Sofia in the autumn of 1996, after Botev started to experience financial troubles.

In January 1997 Kostadin signed with the Turkish club Bursaspor for a fee of 1 000 000 €. There he made 77 appearances, scoring 5 goals. In 1999 Vidolov was signed by Botev as an amateur: the club couldn not afford to pay Bursaspor the fee for a transfer, and Vidolov was not wanted in Bursa anymore. He made excellent performances for Botev during the 1999/00 season. Vidolov signed with CSKA Sofia in the summer of 2000, taking an instrumental part in their 2000/01 run for the championship title. In 2001 Vidolov signed with the Berlin club - 1. FC Union. Vidolov played two seasons for the German club, before moving back to Bulgaria.

Vidolov returned in Bulgaria for the 2003/04 season, playing for Levski Sofia. He managed to win his first Bulgarian Cup with them in 2004. Vidolov signed a constract with Botev Plovdiv in 2004 in trying to help the struggling team to return to the rop flight. He played for three seasons with Botev Plovdiv - a disagreement between him and the club owner Dimitar Hristolov drove Vidolov out in the summer of 2007. Vidolov moved to second filght Spartak Plovdiv, where he played for the first half of the 2007/08 season. In January 2008, the veteran signed with Beroe Stara Zagora, in an attempt to save the team from relegation.

[edit] Awards

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PFC Beroe Stara Zagora – current squad

1 Plamen Kolev • 3 T.Todorov • 4 Hristov • 5 Deliminkov • 8 Tanev • 9 Zlatinov • 10 Vidolov • 11 Zhelev • 14 Z.Todorov • 15 Ivanov • 16 Bukleev • 17 Ilić • 18 Milosavljević • 19 Milenov • 21 Genchev • 23 Petar Kolev • 24 Elame • 25 Atanasov • 27 Apostolov • 28 Kosturkov • Manager: Ilian Iliev
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