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19 Edition

The Lokomotiv Sofia Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match5 Dec 2026

Lokomotiv Sofia strike at the death to beat Arda

There were 88 minutes on the clock and Arda had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Lokomotiv Sofia did not stop to explain themselves.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Up for the corner, and Bozhidar Katsarov delivers — 7.77

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Bozhidar Katsarov scored, was marked 7.77, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Match5 Dec 2026

Still nobody has beaten Lokomotiv Sofia

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Words at Lokomotiv Sofia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. António Eirô is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad7 Dec 2026

A falling-out at Lokomotiv Sofia

Dani Martín and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match5 Dec 2026

Lokomotiv Sofia get the job done against Arda

A 2‑1 win over Arda, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces7 Dec 2026

Lokomotiv Sofia supporters have found a favourite in Mark-Emilio Papazov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mark-Emilio Papazov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

Martin Velichkov gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

One of those days for Georgi Minchev

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.66, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

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11 Edition

The Lokomotiv Sofia Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

Spas Delev is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Angel Lyaskov falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Mark-Emilio Papazov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mark-Emilio Papazov and Lokomotiv Sofia agree another 4 years.

Market12 Oct 2026

Lokomotiv Sofia bring in an old head

Diego Renan is 36 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Martin Velichkov faces his old club

Slavia Sofia next, and one man in the Lokomotiv Sofia dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market12 Oct 2026

The António Eirô question follows Lokomotiv Sofia around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with António Eirô’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad12 Oct 2026

The dressing room has a star in it

Gašper Trdin arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.

Loan watch12 Oct 2026

5 goals on loan for Cauê Caruzo

7 appearances at Prykarpattia and the goals keep coming. Lokomotiv Sofia are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Mitko Mitkov knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Lokomotiv Sofia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

10 Edition

The Lokomotiv Sofia Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match3 Oct 2026

After 8 games, Lokomotiv Sofia finally taste it again

The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Cherno More; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Squad5 Oct 2026

António Eirô falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Dani Martín in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lokomotiv Sofia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match3 Oct 2026

Cherno More take the points off Lokomotiv Sofia

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Diego Renan is slowing down

At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad5 Oct 2026

14 new faces, and Lokomotiv Sofia are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Ivo Aleksandrov to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Aleksandar Lyubenov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Georgi Minchev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief