Zingarevich, banned from entry to Bulgaria, delivers stinging assault on his dropping gamers

March 7 – Botev Plovdiv proprietor Anton Zingarevich has revealed an open letter to gamers and employees expressing his outrage over the crew’s outcomes because the starting of the 12 months. Botev’s crew has not but received a single league match and was eradicated from the Bulgarian Cup by champions Ludogorets on penalties.

Zingarevich, who was banned from getting into Bulgaria for ten years, with Bulgarian authorities declaring the Russian businessman a “risk to nationwide safety”.

Following Zingarevich’s ban, there was hypothesis that the membership’s funds have been in danger and that gamers and coaches had not been paid in latest months.
Zingarevich denied these studies, however expressed his disappointment that whereas the membership’s funds have been secured, however the outcomes achieved weren’t on the required stage.

“Pricey Botev followers, I’m addressing all of you to precise my opinion and produce full readability relating to what has been taking place within the membership because the starting of the 2025 soccer 12 months,” mentioned Zingarevich in his open letter.

“To begin with, I wish to state that I’m dissatisfied with the present kind and outcomes of the consultant males’s crew, achieved prior to now matches of the championship and the Bulgarian Cup match. The gamers who achieved the optimistic ends in the Fall will not be on the stage anticipated at this stage of the competitors. What’s the purpose for it is a matter of dialog and evaluation, however I realise that after the restrictions imposed on me, it’s solely doable that my absence has had a adverse influence on the idea sooner or later and the mobilization within the crew.

“The unfulfilled incoming transfers, in addition to the velocity with which issues are bettering by way of sports activities and know-how, will not be what I anticipated. My specific want is for the crew to develop, attracting classier replacements for the soccer gamers who’re leaving. This didn’t occur throughout the winter break and the explanations for this are but to be clarified,” he continued.

“Since there’s loads of hypothesis on the problem associated to the membership’s financing, I wish to guarantee you that the offered funds doesn’t correspond to both the sport proven and the outcomes achieved, or the efforts which might be being made to compensate for all of the facet issues and for Botev Plovdiv to proceed growing in an upward route.

“I proceed to do every little thing doable in order that the ban imposed on me doesn’t negatively have an effect on the membership, together with on problems with a monetary nature, however I see and perceive the offense in society from the sequence of failures, which makes my efforts completely invisible,” Zingarevic concluded.

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