Vasil Zafirov

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109 Edition

The Slavia Sofia Sentinel

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 Aug 2028

Eric Bile runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 48. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad28 Aug 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vasil Zafirov

18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Sofia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match26 Aug 2028

Eric Bile settles it late for Slavia Sofia

The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Eric Bile decided nobody was going anywhere. Spartak 1918 had no time left to answer.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Nikola Savić 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 Slavia Sofia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Words at Slavia Sofia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Marinov 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.

Match26 Aug 2028

Eric Bile the difference as Slavia Sofia beat Spartak 1918

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Eric Bile. 2‑1 against Spartak 1918, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

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108 Edition

The Slavia Sofia Sentinel

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings21 Aug 2028

Vasil Kaymakanov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Vasil Zafirov damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match16 Aug 2028

Slavia Sofia bow out of the cup

Lokomotiv Sofia go through and Slavia Sofia go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Vasil Kaymakanov is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Slavia Sofia

Eric Bile was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market21 Aug 2028

CSKA 1948 are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Slavia Sofia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad21 Aug 2028

A late step up for Vladimir Miletić

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Match19 Aug 2028

CSKA 1948 take the points off Slavia Sofia

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The terraces21 Aug 2028

The crowd has taken to Eric Bile

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

35 Edition

The Slavia Sofia Sentinel

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad29 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Lazar Marin

121 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Sofia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad29 Mar 2027

A fracture rules Ivan Minchev out for 124 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slavia Sofia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Jordan Semedo Varela: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slavia Sofia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Giannis Theodosoulakis 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 Slavia Sofia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market29 Mar 2027

Slavia Sofia promote Vasil Zafirov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vasil Zafirov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market29 Mar 2027

Stefan Ivanov steps up from the Slavia Sofia academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stefan Ivanov 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.

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