The Lokomotiv Plovdiv Gazette
Match17 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Lokomotiv Plovdiv's wait for a win
30 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokomotiv Plovdiv has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Martin Ruskov
55 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Plovdiv lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Jul 2027
Lokomotiv Plovdiv cannot find the net
7 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market19 Jul 2027
Lucas Ryan asks to leave Lokomotiv Plovdiv
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Julien Lamy 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 Plovdiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Graduation day at Lokomotiv Plovdiv
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Plovdiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrei Chindriş 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Kaloyan Marcelinho steps up from the Lokomotiv Plovdiv academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kaloyan Marcelinho has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Kiril Mihaylov joins the Lokomotiv Plovdiv first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kiril Mihaylov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Lokomotiv Plovdiv promote Vladimir Bozhikov from within
- Squad Deyman Cortés gets it from the manager
- Match Spartak 1918 take the points off Lokomotiv Plovdiv