Kostadin Angelov

Kostadin Angelov

Personal information
Full name	Kostadin Georgiev Angelov
Date of birth	(1973-01-09) 9 January 1973
Place of birth	Sofia, Bulgaria
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current team	Vitosha Bistritsa (sporting director)
Youth career
	CSKA Sofia
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1990–1992	NSA Vasil Levski
1992–1996	FC Chardafon
1996–2002	Vidima-Rakovski
Teams managed
2002–2006	Vidima-Rakovski (assistant coach)
2006–2008	Vidima-Rakovski
2008–2009	Botev Plovdiv
2009–2010	Pro Duta
2010–2011	Pirin Blagoevgrad
2011–2012	Vidima-Rakovski
2013	Pirin Gotse Delchev
2014	Oborishte
2015–2018	Vitosha Bistritsa
2018–	Vitosha Bistritsa (sporting director)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Kostadin "The Laptop" Angelov (Bulgarian: Костадин Ангелов - Лаптопа) (born 9 January 1973) is a Bulgarian coach.^[1] He is currently the sporting director of Vitosha Bistritsa in the first tier of Bulgarian football. He has two children, Gergana Angelova (born 1999), and Daniel Angelov (born 2008).

Early life and career

He grew up in the football academy of CSKA Sofia. Later he joined NSA Vasil Levski. He played for FC Chardafon and Vidima-Rakovski.

Coaching career

He began his coaching career in Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo, as assistant for Plamen Markov. Later he got assigned as head coach of the team and drives them up to promotion to A PFG. He holds the record for the youngest manager in A PFG ever.

In 2008, he was appointed head coach of Botev Plovdiv, and in September 2010 he became the coach of Pirin Blagoevgrad. He managed to avoid relegation with Pirin Blagoevgrad in A PFG, despite the difficult financial situation in the club (however, the team was disbanded for administrative reasons soon after that).^[2] After the financial collapse of Pirin, he returned to Vidima-Rakovski and saved the club from relegation in the decisive playoff of the group. He became the only coach to have managed to rescue two teams in A Group in one season. Angelov's teams also tend to rely exclusively on Bulgarian players and make many transfers to leading Bulgarian clubs like: Apostol Popov, Vladimir Manchev, Dormushali Saidhodja, Iordan Minev from Botev to CSKA, Ivan Cvetkov in Levski, Anton Karachanakov, Stanislav Kostov, Aleksandar Iakimov from Pirin to CSKA, Aleksandar Brannekov from Vidima to Lokomotiv (Sofia), Ivailo Vasilev from Vidima to Levski. He is popular with his nickname The Laptop.

In 2018, after he kept Vitosha Bistritsa in the First league, it was announced that he would become director of football in the club, with Rosen Kirilov taking his place as manager.^[3]

Achievements

Education

1990-1994
National Sport Academy "Vasil Levski" - Sofia - Bachelor

2005
UEFA - Soccer coaching school in Sofia - licensee-UEFA "А"

2006-07
UEFA- Soccer coaching school in Sofia licensee-UEFA "PRO"#0093

References