2024-03-22 18:23:58
After 492 days, the Bulgarian national team won again.
Ilian Iliev’s selection suffered a 1:0 success of Tanzania in the control of the stadium “Dalga Arena” near Baku.
The match is part of the FIFA Series tournament. On Monday, Ilian Iliev’s selection will have a sparring match with the hosts from Azerbaijan.
A masterful execution of a direct free kick in the 52nd minute by the captain of the national team Kiril Despodov brought the relief.
Before the match, everyone in our team was adamant that the most important thing is to stop the bad streak and therefore the victory must be taken at any cost.
In their previous 11 matches, Bulgaria recorded 5 draws and 6 losses, and the previous won match was the control in Cyprus on November 16, 2022 – 2:0.
The crossbar made its significant contribution to the victory against Tanzania. The ball met her after Novatus hit at the very end of the match, but our goalkeeper Dimitar Mitov lightly touched the ball with his fingers.
In general, in the last minutes, the African team applied pressure and our team had to put in a lot of effort to keep their lead.
In the first part, our team scored 3 accurate headers – one by Georgi Rusev and 2 by Ivaylo Chochev. Between the first, Rusev’s at the start, and the second, Tanzania hit the post in the 15th minute through Kibu Denis. The Africans had another very dangerous situation.
In this period, the national team did not look good on the field at all, but towards the end of the half they returned to their good minutes from the beginning and Chochev’s shots came.
After the goal, the most serious situation for Bulgaria was Iliya Gruev’s shot past the crossbar.
Bulgarian football players played for the first time in history with a golden team.
It was made in honor of the 100th anniversary of the national team, which played its first official match on May 21, 1924. This is Bulgaria’s third anniversary shirt in a color combination of old gold with royal blue sleeves, and the shorts are also in royal blue and gold piping.
Bulgaria: Dimitar Mitov – Ioan Stoyanov, Alex Petkov, Valentin Antov, Viktor Popov – Iliya Gruev, Ivaylo Chochev, Philip Krastev – Kiril Despodov, Georgi Rusev, Martin Minchev
Tanzania: Aishi Manula, Mohamed Hussein, Miano Danilo van den Bos, Ibrahim Hamad, Bakari Muamnieto, Imid Mao, Haji Mnoga, Novatus Dismas, Kibu Denis, Faisal Saloum, Tarin Alrakia