Kostadin Vidolov

Kostadin Vidolov

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Personal information
Full name	Kostadin Todorov Vidolov
Date of birth	(1970-05-02) 2 May 1970
Place of birth	Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1980–1988	Maritsa Plovdiv
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989–1993	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	112	(24)
1993–1996	Botev Plovdiv	76	(19)
1996	CSKA Sofia	15	(1)
1997–1999	Bursaspor	77	(5)
1999–2000	Botev Plovdiv	23	(7)
2000–2001	CSKA Sofia	20	(8)
2001–2003	Union Berlin	73	(17)
2004–2005	Levski Sofia	11	(1)
2005–2007	Botev Plovdiv	82	(25)
2007	Spartak Plovdiv	11	(0)
2008–2010	Beroe Stara Zagora	42	(6)
Total		542	(113)
International career
1992–1997	Bulgaria	9	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kostadin Tododrov Vidolov (Bulgarian: Костадин Тодоров Видолов) (born 2 May 1970) is a Bulgarian former footballer. In his career he played for Lokomotiv Plovdiv, Botev Plovdiv, CSKA Sofia, Levski Sofia, Beroe Stara Zagora, German 1. FC Union Berlin and Turkish Bursaspor. For Bulgaria national football team, Vidolov was capped 9 times, scoring one goal. He ended his career at the half of 2009–2010 season.

Career

Vidolov was born in Plovdiv and started his youth career in the popular local team Maritsa. A young prospect, he transferred to the more popular Lokomotiv Plovdiv in 1989. Vidolov made more than 100 appearances, scoring 24 goals for Lokomotiv. He has established himself as the playmaker in the side.

In June 1993 he transferred Botev – the side that he supported as a kid. For the "canaries" Vidolov played until 1996, making 76 appearances and scoring 19 goals. He was called in the Bulgaria national football team while playing for Botev. In the autumn of 1995 Vidolov scored a hat-trick in the derby game against Lokomotiv Plovdiv. He also scored the winning goal for the 0-1 win over FC Dinamo Tbilisi and played well in the games against Sevilla FC in UEFA Europa League, which was then called UEFA Cup. Vidolov was sold to CSKA Sofia in the autumn of 1996, after Botev started to experience financial troubles.

In January 1997 Kostadin signed with the Turkish club Bursaspor for a fee of 1,000,000 €. There he made 77 appearances, scoring 5 goals. In 1999 Vidolov was signed by Botev as an amateur: the club couldn not afford to pay Bursaspor the fee for a transfer, and Vidolov was not wanted in Bursa anymore. He made excellent performances for Botev during the 1999/00 season. Vidolov signed with CSKA Sofia in the summer of 2000, taking an instrumental part in their 2000/01 run for the championship title. In 2001 Vidolov signed with the Berlin club – 1. FC Union. Vidolov played two seasons for the German club, with whom qualified for the final of DFB-Pokal, before moving back to Bulgaria.

Vidolov returned in Bulgaria for the 2003/04 season, playing for Levski Sofia. He managed to win his first Bulgarian Cup with them in 2004. Vidolov signed a constract with Botev Plovdiv in 2004 in trying to help the struggling team to return to the rop flight. He played for three seasons with Botev Plovdiv – a disagreement between him and the club owner Dimitar Hristolov drove Vidolov out in the summer of 2007. Vidolov moved to second-flight Spartak Plovdiv, where he played for the first half of the 2007/08 season. In January 2008, the veteran signed with Beroe Stara Zagora, in an attempt to save the team from relegation. On 2 November 2009, Vidolov played his last match in career, against Sliven for A PFG. In January 2010, he was announced as an assistant coach of Beroe's second team.

• 1989–1993 Lokomotiv Plovdiv
• 1993–1996 Botev Plovdiv
• 19960000 CSKA Sofia
• 1997–1999 Bursaspor
• 1999–2000 Botev Plovdiv
• 2000–2001 CSKA Sofia
• 2001–2003 1. FC Union Berlin
• 2004–2005 Levski Sofia
• 2005–2007 Botev Plovdiv
• 200700000 Spartak Plovdiv
• 2008–2010 Beroe Stara Zagora

Awards

• Holder of Bulgaria's cup 2005 (with PFC Levski Sofia)

Honors

Bulgarian Cup

• Winners (1 time): 2005

Bulgarian Supercup

• Winners (1 time): 2005

External links

• Kostadin Vidolov at National-Football-Teams.com
• Profile at LevskiSofia.info