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FOOTBALL EUROPE: Petrov honoured in Bulgaria

/noticias.info/ Club Atlético de Madrid winger Martin Petrov has been named as Bulgaria's Player of the Year ahead of Tottenham Hotspur's Dimitar Berbatov and Aston Villa FC's Stilian Petrov.

First honour
The 27-year-old came out on top in a poll of 161 Bulgarian journalists to take the award for the first time in his career. The honour will be all the more welcome as the player has been out of action for the last two months with a knee ligament injury.

Thanks all round
The winger made his mark in 2006 by scoring four goals in three UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifiers for Bulgaria but he was quick to share the credit for his success, saying: "I want to thank all my team-mates in the national team and at Atlético. I won the award because of their help. I would like also to thank my family for the great support over the two months since I got injured. I hope I will back as soon as possible to give the fans plenty of reasons to celebrate."

Other awards
In other awards, Stanimir Stoilov was named coach of the year after taking PFC Levski Sofia into the UEFA Champions League group stage, Berbatov won the awards for fans' player of the year and 2006's best forward, Levski's Stanislav Angelov was midfielder of the year and his team-mate Georgi Petkov won the goalkeeping prize. Another Levski player, Valeri Domovchiyski, was named as young player of the year while Todor Radomirov of PFC Spartak Varna won the fair play award. notas_de_prensa_archivo