SOCCER PLAYER

Aleksandar Shalamanov

1941 - 2021

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Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov (Bulgarian: Александър Cтефанов Шаламанов; 4 September 1941 – 25 October 2021) was a football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics (as an alpine skier in 1960) and in the FIFA World Cup. The 1964 Summer Olympics saw him as a reserve player of the volleyball team, but he did not play in a match. Shalamanov began his career as a defender with CSKA Sofia in 1960–61, but moved to Slavia Sofia in 1961 to remain there until 1974, when he retired after 263 matches in the Bulgarian Championship, three Bulgarian Cup trophies (1963, 1964 and 1966) and a Cup Winners' Cup semi-final in 1967.Shalamanov has twice been selected Best Bulgarian Footballer, in 1963 and 1966, and twice Best Bulgarian Sportsman, in 1967 and 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandar Shalamanov has received more than 38,838 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Aleksandar Shalamanov is the 2,784th most popular soccer player (down from 1,015th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 123rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Bulgarian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Aleksandar Shalamanov ranks 2,784 out of 21,273. Before him are Alfred Teinitzer, Pedro Solé, Ivan Kolev, Nikola Kalinić, Johann Urbanek, and Stipe Pletikosa. After him are Jesús María Zamora, Miloš Krasić, Wolfgang Rolff, Akira Matsunaga, Emilio Álvarez, and Kazumi Tsubota.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Aleksandar Shalamanov ranks 410. Before him are Letícia Román, Muhammad Mustafa Mero, Vittorio Messori, Mary Alice, Dinko Dermendzhiev, and Juliet Mills. After him are Frans Verbeeck, Michael Berry, Karl Dall, Allal Benkassou, Lester Bowie, and Zalman King. Among people deceased in 2021, Aleksandar Shalamanov ranks 382. Before him are József Csatári, Jean-Marc Vallée, Issake Dabore, Clarence Williams III, Kadir Topbaş, and Alfred Teinitzer. After him are Bernard Lown, Bobby Unser, Ramsey Clark, Lothar Metz, Francesco Morini, and Vera Nikolić.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Aleksandar Shalamanov ranks 194 out of 415. Before him are Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov (1951), Ivan Dimitrov (1935), Yordanka Blagoeva (1947), Sophronius of Vratsa (1739), Dinko Dermendzhiev (1941), and Ivan Kolev (1930). After him are Dragan Tsankov (1828), Teodor Teodorov (1859), Dora Gabe (1888), Yordan Yovkov (1880), Dimitar Dobrev (1931), and Mariya Petkova (1950).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Bulgaria

Among soccer players born in Bulgaria, Aleksandar Shalamanov ranks 20. Before him are Dobromir Zhechev (1942), Ivan Davidov (1943), Stefan Bozhkov (1923), Ivan Dimitrov (1935), Dinko Dermendzhiev (1941), and Ivan Kolev (1930). After him are Boris Gaganelov (1941), Georgi Slavkov (1958), Borislav Mikhailov (1963), Ivan Vutsov (1939), Nasko Sirakov (1962), and Georgi Naydenov (1931).

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