Trifon Ivanov
Trifon Ivanov ( Bulgarian Трифон Иванов; born July 27, 1965 in Lipniza, Bulgaria ) is a former Bulgarian football player of the most successful national team of Bulgaria to the 1994 World Cup He is married and has two daughters..
Career
Ivanov began his long football career with 18 years at his hometown club Etar Tarnovo, where he played together with Krassimir Balakov. Before he played his later master position of the libero, he was mainly used in the attack - this is possibly an explanation for that he, much to the excitement of some of his trainer, at times forgot in individual matches his defensive duties to prefer to storm itself.
Due to his good performances, he was soon obliged by the Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia bulk, where Ivanov with Christo Stoichkov had another prominent players at his side. In 1991, Ivanov for three years in the Spanish Primera Division Betis Sevilla to where he experienced many ups and downs. Especially criticized for its Undiszipliniertheiten, it was sold in 1994 to Neuchatel Xamax. His second season at the Swiss club was mainly dominated by the confrontation with coach Gilbert Gress, whom he accused of ignorance about the sport of football, after Ivanov had to go back and played for a few months for CSKA Sofia.
In 1995 he came with his wife and daughters to Vienna and bought a house in Vienna Floridsdorf. He moved to that same club where he experienced his most successful period, the Austrian club SK Rapid Wien. In his first season he managed with the Rapid Championship title and made it to the European Cup final of the Cup Winners' Cup. His great performance in the following year in the Champions League provided him with even a nomination in Europe "Team of the Year". But as good Trifon Ivanov also played in the Champions League, so bad he played in some championship matches and fell to as already in Neuchatel, mainly through lack of discipline, which his coach Ernst Dokupil deeply angered. As Rapid 1997 championship decisive match against Salzburg Austria lost and unnecessarily Ivanov was shown a red card in the final minutes of the game, Dokupil threw the Bulgarians, despite a contract until 1998, out of the team. Until then, he was for Rapid in 53 championship matches (7 goals) and 17 European Cup matches ( 3 goals ) in use.
In order not to be returned for the remainder of his contract from the amateurs in Rapid Vienna's minor league, he moved quickly to the arch-rival of his former employer, namely to FK Austria Wien. But there remained to him of any further success denied, so he preferred to switch back to prepare for the World Cup in France in his Bulgarian homeland to CSKA Sofia. His last year in Vienna he played but still in the Vienna minor league to his daughters ending of compulsory education ( the older she finished in Vienna, the younger is still studying in Bulgaria) allow. To avoid too many reporters and photographers this year, he moved to a bigger apartment in the Frömmlgasse (1210 Wien). He played in this time in the FAC ( Floridsdorfer athletics sports club), where he ultimately finished his career in 2001.
Trifon Ivanov in the Bulgarian national
For Bulgaria Trifon Ivanov graduated between 1988 and 1998 a total of 75 games in which he was able to achieve eight goals. 1994 Ivanov was surprised with his Bulgarian teammates the entire sports world - traveled a nobody team for the 1994 World Cup, they reached the semi-finals and surprisingly occupied finally in fourth place, with Ivanov had a large part in this success. The second World Cup appearance of Ivanov (France 1998) was less glorious: One last time played football veterans Ivanov, Hristo Stoichkov, Emil Kostadinov, etc. together and delivered a more than poor performance, which also marked the end of the golden Fußballära Bulgaria sealed.
After his career end Trifon Ivanov began building an Austrian chain of petrol stations in northern Bulgaria and the establishment of four companies that deal with trade in oil in Bulgaria.