Edson Silva

Defensive Midfielder - Botev Plovdiv
3 Dec 2026
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Marked for Edson Silva

17 Edition

The Botev Plovdiv Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Nov 2026

Alquimedes Peralta damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.

Match18 Nov 2026

Botev Plovdiv through in the cup

A 0‑0 win over Lokomotiv Plovdiv, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match21 Nov 2026

The wait goes on for Botev Plovdiv

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Nothing got past Lucas Araújo

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 32 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Daniel Naumov is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Daniel Naumov: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Nothing got past Edson Silva

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Botev Plovdiv

Samuel Kalu 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.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Samuel Kalu was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.97. 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.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Gabriel Noga was immovable

20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief

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5 Edition

The Botev Plovdiv Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Aug 2026

Edson Silva hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Botev Plovdiv can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Simeon Petrov was immovable

24 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Market31 Aug 2026

Aleksa Maraš moves on

CSKA Sofia pay $350.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market31 Aug 2026

Nikolay Prandzhev moves on

Slavia Sofia pay $80.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Emerson Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Lucas Araújo

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

The afternoon belonged to Antoine Conte

A mark of 7.87, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad31 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Chidera Micheal

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

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Botev Plovdiv training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hristiyan Slavkov 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.

In brief