[ad_1]
He and his brother confuse sports: the soccer player is named after a great man a volleyball player, and the volleyball player – a famous soccer player
193 centimeters. And incredible enthusiasm. That is why for fans he is already the Bulgarian Hulk. The famous character from Marvel comics, who when he gets angry, turns green and sweeps everything in front of him. Because for the first time in the 114-year history “Spezia” plays at the highest level of Italian football, and the name of Andrei Galabinov will remain in golden letters in its history. As a footballer, he scored the club’s first goal in Serie A and later as a player, he achieved his first victory. With two more goals. And the nicknames of their old teams like Tanka and the Beast are gone. The Bulgarian Hulk got up at the age of 31.
Native soccer hardly contributes to their development. Because he has lived and trained in Italy since the age of 16. It is all due to the contract that Modena Volley offers to his father Assen as a coach. And he moved his family from Cyprus to Botusha.
Family photo with father Asen and mother Polina.
In fact, Bulgarian and Italian volleyball are probably the biggest losers due to the fact that Andrei has had the ball at his feet since he was a child and wants to coach soccer. Because everything around him is volleyball with one big exception.
Andrei as a bandit during the Nationals’ camp.
The grandfather after whom he is named is one of the pioneers of volleyball in Bulgaria, a long-time national leader of the sport in “Levski”, a factor in Europe in the past. There is even a named item in the game called “dove”.
His younger brother Yordan, named after the great CSKA goalkeeper Yordan Filipov, became a volleyball player.
His father Assen also played successfully in the national team, being part of who won the bronze in the 1986 World Cup in Paris.
Fifth on the planet in 1990. Then as a coach he classified the national team in the 2002 World Cup in Argentina.
His mother Polina Filipova is one of the best distributors of the past, playing for CSKA. She stopped her career quite early to accompany Assen in the different teams she plays for.
Still, the family tradition in volleyball is preserved. By Yordan Galabinov, Andrei’s younger brother. However, he is 202 cm tall and has three seasons in Serie A for Modena, Verona and Andreoli Latina. 10 years ago he was part of the youth team of Italians.
Exactly in the name of the young Galabinov is the great exception. It is named after the other grandfather: Polina’s father, the great CSKA goalkeeper and the national team Yordan Filipov. With the “reds” he has 9 titles and 5 cups, he also played in the KESH semi-finals in the famous clash with the Italian “Inter” in 1967. He is also the champion of Malta with the team of “Rabat Ajax”. He played 28 games for Bulgaria. And until recently a record holder for the oldest player in our championship. He played the last game of his career on November 26, 1988 in a 6: 1 win for the “Black Sea” against “Lokomotiv” (Plovdiv) at the “Ticha” stadium. On match day, he is 42 years and 161 days old, becoming the oldest player to play in Group A. The achievement was improved 20 years later by “Slavia” goalkeeper Georgi Petkov.
The next day after Yordan Filipov’s last match, Andrei appeared in the world. To confuse the sport with his brother, who is 2 years younger. The one named after a volleyball player becomes a soccer player, and the one named after the soccer player begins to hit with the hand.
When he was 6 years old, Andrey enrolled in the CSKA school. He is part of the team from set 88, which includes names like Ivan Karadzhov, Ivan Ivanov-Russia and Chipev. His strongest memory of that time is how he returned the balls from the match with Galatasaray. Sam admits that he doesn’t remember much of his great-grandfather from soccer, after Filipov died in a ridiculous accident when he was only 7 years old. That is why there are more live volleyball matches than soccer.
After CSKA school, his father was appointed as a game coach in Omonia (Nicosia) and little Andrei moved to the football school of the great Cypriot. And at 16 he set foot in Italy.
His career began at Castelrano, which is in one of Botusha’s fourth divisions. He then signed for Bologna, but never registered a match for the first team. They send it for rent to Giulianova and Giacomes.
On February 1, 2011, he signed a contract with Livorno for 4.5 years. But he played only three games until the end of the season. And that is why the rentals start again: “Sorrento”, “Bassano”, “Gubbio” and “Avelinho”. In Avelinho he became the top scorer of the Serie B team with 15 goals. He returned to Livorno and his contract expired in the summer of 2015. As a free agent he signed with Novara and scored 25 goals there in two seasons.
In the summer of 2017 he was in Serie A for the first time with Genoa. And on August 26 he scored his first goal in the penalty elite not against anyone, but
Gianluigi Buffon at the door of Juventus. The 11-meter one was delivered after the VAR intervention. “Genoa” shot with 2: 0, but finally lost with 2: 4.
The Italian elite is one of the most difficult for Bulgarian footballers. So far, only 7 have registered matches there, and two, Galabinov and Valeri Bozhinov, can be considered produced in Botusha. The others are Nikolay Iliev, the former captain of “Levski”, Hristo Stoichkov, who has a season for “Parma”, Ivaylo Chochev in “Palermo”, Alexander Tonev in “Crotone” and “Frosinone” and Kiril Despodov, who is currently in Cagliari.
On August 17, 2018, he signed with “Spice” for 3.5 years. In the first season he scored 6 goals, but then he got injured. After the resumption of the championship after the crisis of the crown, he returned to the field. And he scored a hat-trick for Chievo, who are the team’s first player since 2015, when Massimiliano Castelloni did it. “Spice” finished in third place and equaled his best achievement in history. Then, in the semi-finals of the promotion playoffs, Andrei scored again for Chievo. And after “Spezia” faces “Frosinone”, for the first time he ranks in the elite.
The first coach of the national team to pay attention to him,
It is Lyuboslav Penev or more precisely his assistant Radoslav Zdravkov, who makes the connection with the striker. He made his debut on March 5, 2014 in control with Belarus, hitting a crossbar in 45 minutes. His first goal was on May 23 against Canada. So far there are only 10 games for Bulgaria with 2 precise goals. The other is in the Euro Cup qualifiers in the unfortunate match against Malta, when Ivelin Popov missed a penalty and this led to Penev’s expulsion.
There was also a small scandal surrounding Galabinov, because it was alleged that he rejected Ivaylo Petev’s call. The forward explained that this simply could not happen, but simply did not feel fit after injury and would not be useful for the national team. But his last game for Bulgaria was with Petar Hubchev in the world rankings against France on October 7, 2017, when we lost in Sofia 0: 1 after a goal from Blaise Matuidi. In the 48th minute he was replaced by Bozhidar Kraev.
Until last year, Andrei was a couple with Italian model Natasha Cinelli, sister of his “Genoa” teammate Alessandro Cinelli, but they separated.
[ad_2]
