Anatoli Nankov

Anatoli Nankov
Personal information
Full nameAnatoli Aleksandrov Nankov
Date of birth15 July 1969
Place of birthOresh, Bulgaria
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing positionMidfielder (retired)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1985–1988Dunav Ruse57(19)
1988–1990Slavia Sofia34(6)
1990–1997CSKA Sofia149(11)
1997–2000Lokomotiv Sofia52(2)
1998CSKA Sofia (loan)2(0)
2000–2003Spartak Varna44(3)
2002→ Chengdu Blades (loan)15(6)
2003–2004GKS Katowice4(0)
2004–2005Minyor Bobov dol2(0)
Total359(47)
National team
1993–1998Bulgaria17(0)
Teams managed
2005Hebar Pazardzhik
2007-2008CSKA Sofia (assistant manager)
2008-2009Al-Ahli (assistant manager)
2009-2011ENPPI Club (assistant manager)
2012-2015CSKA Sofia (assistant manager)
2015CSKA Sofia (interim coach)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Anatoli Aleksandrov Nankov (Bulgarian: Анатоли Александров Нанков; born 15 July 1969 in Oresh, Veliko Tarnovo Province) is a Bulgarian former football midfielder.

Career

Nankov spent most of his career playing in the Bulgarian A PFG, but also had a spell with GKS Katowice.[1] On 23 July 1997, Nankov was involved in arguably one of the most dramatic matches in CSKA Sofia's recent history, scoring twice to give his team a 3:1 away lead against Romanian side FC Steaua Bucureşti in the first leg of a Champions League preliminary phase match, but was ultimately sent off and the Romanians succeeded in bringing the score to 3:3. CSKA Sofia were eliminated from the competition after suffering a 0:2 home defeat in the return leg, for which Nankov was ineligible to play.[2]

He has been capped 17 times for the Bulgarian national team, scoring 1 goal, and played two games at the 1998 World Cup, receiving a red card in the first match against Paraguay, which ended in a scoreless draw.

He acted as manager of Hebar Pazardzhik in 2005[3] and was later employed as the assistant manager to Stoycho Mladenov at CSKA Sofia until March 2015.[4] Following Mladenov's resignation, Nankov was head coach of the "redmen" in one match - a 0:0 draw with Beroe.

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