2024-09-15 01:05:13
At a meeting of the Municipal Council in Ihtiman, it was voted that the newly built sports hall in the city should be named after the volleyball legend Dimitar Zlatanov. This was announced after the meeting of the council for BTA from the Municipality. Zlatanov is a native of Ikhtiman.
75-year-old Zlatanov is the only Bulgarian in the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts (USA), No. 1 forward in the world for 1970. Married to Maria Vasileva.
Since 1969, Dimitar Zlatanov has been playing for CSKA, with whom he was the champion of Bulgaria for nine years, once European champion, twice a finalist in the tournament, once third. His assets include victories over CSKA Moscow and Dynamo, over Dynamo (Berlin GDR), Czech Dukla (Czechoslovakia was world champion in 1966), Spanish Real, French Racing (Paris), Japanese champion Yamira (Tokyo).
After his retirement from competitive activity in 1983, Zlatanov became Vasil Simov’s assistant coach at CSKA. In 1985, he was appointed head coach of CSKA, with whom he won 3 titles. In 1988 he went to work in Italy.