After pressure: Story of how the reserve Bobi Mihailov was pushed to start in Levski

However, few people know that at the very beginning Mihailov was not the best goalkeeper in Levski, but was nevertheless imposed as a starter. That’s what he claims the journalist Petar Stamatov, who has been living in the USA for years, where he is the founder of the media portal Eurochicago.com. On Facebook, he tells a story about the pressure when Mihailov was developing in football.

Was Mihailov a solid reserve of Stoyan Kovachev?

In his teenage years, Levski’s best goalkeeper was named Stoyan Kovachev, says Stamatov. He is recruited by Borislav Mihailov, as he is a firm starter with the “blues”, and the president of BFS is his reserve, Stamatov claims. However, in one final of the capital city championship, Mihailov was pressured to be a starter, which subsequently made Stoyan leave the team and continue his life beyond football, Petar Stamatov explains.

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How does Kovachev’s life continue?

Stoyan Kovachev graduated from the Higher Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Institute (VMEI), which today is the Technical University in Sofia. Then he ended up in the USA, and later, having passed the sporting age, Kovachev returned to the field. The goalkeeper became the champion of Chicago for veterans with the local Bulgarian Slavia.

Champion in Chicago with a penalty shootout record

For several years, he has been irreplaceable in the team and set a record for saved penalties, having had a series of 7-8 penalty kicks without conceding a goal, claims Petar Stamatov. About him, the most titled Bulgarian coach in Chicago, Krasimir Ivanov – Kanata, says: “In my life, I don’t know another goalkeeper like him – smart and literate both at the goal and in life!”.

You can read Petar Stamatov’s entire story about Bobi Mihailov and Stoyan Kovachev in his Facebook post: