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Levski publishes another episode of the online video series of his joint initiative with the Blue Bulgaria Trust – Learn with Levski.
Today he visits one of Levski’s most beloved players and a coach at the “blue” academy: Zahari Sirakov.
It relates the experience of the unforgettable encounter with Juventus and the memorable visit to Turin in 1999.
“There were many exciting moments with Levski. I will talk about the match against Juventus in Turin. Then Juventus played names like Zinedine Zidane and Antonio Conte, and their coach was Carlo Ancelotti.”
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We arrived a day before the game, a torrential rain that did not stop on the day of the game. I was wondering if this match was going to take place. But the ground was covered in nylon. Only the goalkeepers were warming up in the middle of Juventus; For the first time, something like this happened to me. When we left 10 minutes before the start of the match, Juventus took the field. As soon as 13-14 minutes we take the lead. We played very hard, we had the opportunity for a second goal. In the second half, after a corner kick, Krasi Dimitrov turned the ball around very well, passed the goalkeeper and I thought it was a goal, but a Juventus player died in the last minute. The ball hit the top beam, crashed into the line, hit, I thought it was naked, but it wasn’t.
Juventus leveled 10 minutes before the end. The game ended, we had agreed with the Juventus players to exchange shirts for a souvenir. But as the rain kept raining, it had to happen in the tunnel between the two changing rooms.
The Juventus team came home and we went to congratulate our fans on the stadium. When we returned to the tunnel, the administrator of the Juventus team told us to wait a moment because Carlo Ancelotti was scolding them. I don’t remember how many, but we waited 15-20 minutes before they invited us in. We go in, we change our shirts. To my delight, I replaced my shirt with the big star Zinedine Zidane. To this day, the shirt is in my closet.
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Then I saw Juventus players from the bus with the modern cars they were leaving. I was wondering if Zidane was going to go with Ferrari. And he went to a modest Fiat Punto, put on his jacket and left. I was stunned
So he gave me an example that it is better to surrender in the field than to parade off the field with cars, houses, planes … “said Zahari Sirakov.
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