Ivan Iliev

Left Wingback - Vihren U18
10 Mar 2030
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177 Edition

The Vihren Herald

17 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings17 Dec 2029

Oktay Hamdiev scores twice — 8.38

Two goals and a mark of 8.38 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match15 Dec 2029

Nobody wants to play Vihren right now

5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Market17 Dec 2029

Only the photograph left for Nikolay Prandzhev

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nikolay Prandzhev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vihren the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad17 Dec 2029

Mascote 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 Vihren this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match15 Dec 2029

Oktay Hamdiev the difference as Vihren beat Sportist Svoge

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Oktay Hamdiev. 3‑1 against Sportist Svoge, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad17 Dec 2029

Dimitar Kostadinov 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.

Match15 Dec 2029

Vihren keep winning on the road

3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

The dugout17 Dec 2029

No hiding place for Francesco Parisi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francesco Parisi, and the manager let it.

Squad17 Dec 2029

Vihren count the cost of losing Ivan Iliev

20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

Back issues
173 Edition

The Vihren Herald

19 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market19 Nov 2029

Nikolay Prandzhev has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vihren they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad19 Nov 2029

Words exchanged at Vihren

Oktay Hamdiev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad19 Nov 2029

A row about effort at Vihren

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dimitar Kostadinov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad19 Nov 2029

Nuno Pereira 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. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad19 Nov 2029

Vihren count the cost of losing Ivan Iliev

48 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Looking ahead19 Nov 2029

Petko Ganev faces his old club

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

Market19 Nov 2029

The Oktay Hamdiev question follows Vihren around

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

The dugout19 Nov 2029

Jaba Daraselia knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jaba Daraselia trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead19 Nov 2029

An away day at Sevlievo next for Vihren

They sit in position 13 and they will be waiting. Away form is where a season shows its true character, and this side has a point to make about its own.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Nikolay Minkov
  • Boardroom The Vihren academy earns its keep