Ayan Sadakov
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox football biography Ayan Faikov Sadakov (Template:Langx) (26 September 1961 – 1 July 2017) was a Bulgarian footballer and a key member of the Bulgarian national team in the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Club career
Sadakov began his club career at the local Lokomotiv Plovdiv. For "The Smurfs" he played eleven seasons, before transferring to Portugal's C.F. Os Belenenses in 1989. Two years later he return in Lokomotiv and played two years, before signed with Botev Plovdiv in summer 1994.
International
Sadakov made 80 appearances for Bulgaria, between 1981 and 1991 and scored 9 goals.[1] He played in four matches for his country at 1986 FIFA World Cup.[2]
Coaching career
Sadakov had been appointed on September 29, 2008 as a manager of Lokomotiv Plovdiv a second time to replace Dragan Kanatlarovski.
Personal life
In 2014, Sadakov announced he was diagnosed with ALS.[3] He died on 1 July 2017, aged 55.[4]
Honours
- Lokomotiv Plovdiv
References
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External links
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- 1961 births
- 2017 deaths
- Bulgarian football managers
- Bulgarian men's footballers
- 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen
- Bulgarian expatriate men's footballers
- Bulgaria men's international footballers
- 1986 FIFA World Cup players
- First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
- Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
- Primeira Liga players
- Footballers from Plovdiv
- Botev Plovdiv players
- PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv players
- PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv managers
- C.F. Os Belenenses players
- Neurological disease deaths in Bulgaria
- Deaths from motor neuron disease
- Men's association football midfielders
- Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal