Đorđe Jovičić

Central Defender - Botev Vratsa
8 Apr 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Đorđe Jovičić

73 Edition

The Botev Vratsa Post

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Daniel Marín out for 44 days

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

Squad

Đorđe Jovičić keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Botev Vratsa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words at Botev Vratsa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristiyan Malinov 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Botev Vratsa

Daniel Genov 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 ratings

Kristiyan Malinov shuts the door

Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Martin Petkov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
54 Edition

The Botev Vratsa Post

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ivan Goranov

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

Player ratings

Milen Stoev goes up and wins it — 7.95

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.95 for the rest of it.

Squad

Tempers go at Botev Vratsa

Ivan Andonov 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.

Squad

Kristiyan Malinov 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

Mitchy Ntelo the difference as Botev Vratsa beat CSKA 1948

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mitchy Ntelo. 2‑1 against CSKA 1948, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Đorđe Jovičić signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Đorđe Jovičić and Botev Vratsa agree another 3 years.

In brief

53 Edition

The Botev Vratsa Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ivan Goranov

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

Match

The wait goes on for Botev Vratsa

6 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Martin Petkov

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Ivan Andonov 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 Botev Vratsa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Botev Vratsa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Riffo 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.

Squad

Đorđe Jovičić signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Đorđe Jovičić and Botev Vratsa agree another 3 years.

In brief

39 Edition

The Botev Vratsa Post

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Lyuboslav Stoyanov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Botev Vratsa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words at Botev Vratsa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristiyan Malinov 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.

Squad

Đorđe Jovičić 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 Botev Vratsa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief