Ivan Ivanov

Left Forward - Fratria U18
27 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ivan Ivanov

82 Edition

The Fratria Chronicle

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Fratria has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Iliyan Kapitanov 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 Fratria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Iliyan Kapitanov 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.

Squad

Kristiyan Peshov 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.

Match

Miroslav Marinov sends Fratria past Sevlievo

It finished 2‑1, and it was Miroslav Marinov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Fratria.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Miroslav Marinov

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.

Player ratings

Petko Panayotov was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for Fratria

Spartak Pleven next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

Squad

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Ivan Ivanov

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Fratria will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

In brief

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Back issues
11 Edition

The Fratria Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Rumen Rumenov out for 83 days

83 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Fratria lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Kristiyan Peshov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kristiyan Peshov commits to Fratria for another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Fratria

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

Squad

A row about effort at Fratria

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

Market

Fratria promote Ivan Ivanov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Ivanov 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.

The dugout

Kristiyan Peshov 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.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Preslav Georgiev

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Fratria told Preslav Georgiev something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Looking ahead

Viktor Ergin goes back to face Sevlievo

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Viktor Ergin’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Fratria needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market

Miroslav Marinov linked with a move away

The name of Miroslav Marinov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Fratria say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief