tennis players

Magdalena Maleeva is the youngest of the tennis trio Maleevi sisters and the youngest champion for women in Bulgaria.She was born in 1975 in Sofia. She began her professional career in 1989 and ended it in 2005.For sixteen years in the elite world of professional tennis, Maggie has 439 wins in official matches, 10 singles titles and 5 - pairs.In 1995 she defeated the established names in tennis such as Gabriela Sabatini, Mary Pierce, Natasha Zvereva, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario..In 1996 Magdalena Maleeva became number four in the world rankings. 

Artists

Vladimir Dimitrov - the Master is the most famous Bulgarian artist. For him, Chavdar Mutafov ,a critic, writes: "... Vladimir Dimitrov - the Master carries in himself the soul of our former masters of the whole past and secure the future of a whole”. Fate has given the most prominent Bulgarian painter thousand vicissitudes of life.. He died in poverty, though his talent is incomparable, and that almost every picture painted by him turned into an event. 

-Gymnasts and athletics:

Bulgarian “ lady of ice” and her partner Maxim Stavisky combine two important qualities – strong-mindedness and unusual talent .They overcame all difficulties on the road to the world-wide fame .In 2006 in Calgari Albena and Maxim won the gold medal and became world champions .This was the first gold medal for Bulgaria in figure skating. Bulgarian figure skaters grabbed the gold medal for the second time in their career in Tokyo , Japan in 2007.Bulgaria's sweethearts have been planning to get married someday but they said there was never enough time off from skating and practice to do that. World Ice Skating Champions 2006 Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski got finally married in end of December 2006 in a small Bulgarian mountain village.

football players

Valeri Bojinov is a Bulgarian football striker. Currently he is a player on the Italian club Parma, rented from Manchester City, and previously played for Italian "Fiorentina", "Lecce and Juventus. He has 19 matches for the national football team of Bulgaria, in which he noted three goals. Bojinov recently held the record for transfer and sale of Bulgarian athletes after his passage from Lecce to Fiorentina on January 31 2005, for the sum of 13 million euros. He debuted for the national team at the European Championships in Portugal in 2004 against Italy. His first goal for 'A' team he scored on August 11th 2004 against Ireland. 

Valeri Bojinov still holds the record for the youngest foreign player playing in Serie A- just having turned 15-years he entered as a substitute for the team of "treatments" in Juventus team lost. In 2006, played for Juventus after exchange with Adrian Mutu, who was taken from Fiorentina. His debut for "Juventus is for the Coppa Italia against Napoli. In 2007, passes in Manchester City for 4.1 million pounds.

Georgi Asparuhov - Gundy, the legend of Bulgarian football fens of all times, was born in 1943 in Sofia. A superb player and sportsman on the pitch Gundy attracts the audience like a magnet. He is the first Bulgarian football player, who received an offer to play in a professional team overseas. All meetings of our national team remain glorious history of Bulgarian football, which participated in the "miracle" Gundy. The unforgettable Gundy dies in a car crash - when he was only 28 years old. 

Dimitar Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who played for Pirin (Blagoevgrad), CSKA (Sofia), Bayer Leverkusen. With the German team he signed a contract for 4.5 years and the amount of transfer was 4.5 million DEM. In May 2006, passed in the English team Tottenham Hotspur for 16 million euros. His father and his grandfather are former players,his younger brother named Assen, is also a footballer, currently playing in Pirin( Blagoevgrad).On July 29, 2006 Dimitar Berbatov has 31 goals in 49 appearances for the Bulgarian national football team, which ranks him third place in the ranking of the best scorers in the national team of all time. Before him are only Hristo Bonev (47 goals) and Hristo Stoichkov (35 goals). He was declared a footballer № 1 in Bulgaria for 2002, 2004 and 2005.At the moment Berbatov is playing for one of the most famous and powerful teams in the world-Manchester United. 

World famous bulgaria

-singers 

World famous Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff was a phenomenon in opera. Emblematic artist of the Russian opera classics, he was unbeaten in the role of Boris Godunov of the eponymous opera by Mussorgsky. Philip II in Don Carlos by Verdi is another memorable role of the Bulgarian royal bass. Performances were inimitable and his church Slavonic Chants - hardly a Bulgarian who does not know his "Mnogaya leta ”(To many years to come). In 1986 the Bulgarian Academy of Arts and Culture was opened in Rome - the great Bulgarian donated his home to the Bulgarian state to care for the development of young opera singers. And donated his home in Sofia, also in favor of art. The bass genius was born in 1914 in l Bulgaria and died in 1993 in Rome.

 

Valya Balkanska is “the space voice of Bulgaria”. The voice of our most renowned folk singer was sent into space in 1977. The unparalleled performance of the song " Izlel Deliu rebel" sounds there for at least another 60 000 years. She was born in 1942 in the village of Arda, Smolyan. Her great Rhodope heart sings with the same love and joy in the home and neighborhood, and in the largest capitals in the world. "Let's let the stars of heaven”. The important thing is to have genuine people on earth ", said Valya at the Balkan ceremony for the second star in the Famous Walk of Fame. 

Great opera singer Ghena Dimitrova was born in the village of Beglezh, Pleven . Against her father’s will at the age of 20 Gena began studying singing at the Music Academy with Prof. Chr. Brambarov. Her incredible voice, a professor who says it is "a voice that is born once every one hundred years". Having conquered the world's opera stages, Gena was proclaimed queen of Verdi voices and was awarded the prize "Giacomo Puccini's brilliant interpretation of central characters in operas by Puccini, the" Golden Verdi”, an award previously given only to Italian opera singers ... She was the first foreign singer who received an invitation to open a triple of the season, "La Scala" - a huge honor, equivalent to an absolute recognition of her qualities.One of the greatest recognitions in her life are the words of the great Herbert von Karajan, who, hearing her for the first time, enthusiastically exclaimed: " I have lived to hear a voice that only gods deserve!" 

Prima of the Bulgarian pop music , Lili Ivanova has issued 32 albums (two Gold records are in Europe), over 10 000 live concerts and recorded over 500 songs.Her first famous song "Saturday Night" was released in 1963 .The same year her first album was issued in Romania - the first LP of the Bulgarian singer, issued abroad. In 1963, she took part in shows at Ambassador Hotel and the Constantin Tanase Music Hall Theatre in Bucharest. Her brilliant performance was broadcast live four times on the national television of Rumania. In her career, Lili Ivanova has performed live at more than 10 000 concerts both in Bulgaria and abroad.In 1988 she won the first prize in Paris , France.One of her biggest hits are "Camino", "You know my dream, I love you," It is our summer, "Warning", "Heavy Wedding", "My Mother," "Gambling", "Doomed Souls "Detelina" Cricket "," Wind, I swore you “….In 1997, the International Association of women nominated her as one of the most famous women of the twentieth century.On May 11, 2006 Lili Ivanova got a star on the Bulgarian Walk of Fame.She has performed at a lot of live concerts all over the world.

Raina Kabaivanska is an opera singer, one of most important soprano voices in the second half of the twentieth century, Graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatory in 1958 Kabaivanska was able to secure a specialization in Italy. One year later she debuted in the role of Zhorzheta and Puccini's "Pagliacci" on Leonkavalo in Fano.Later she won a competition for young artists at the school of La Scala. Kabaivanska's relationship with La Scala remains intense - "Falstaff", "Turandot" to Busoni, "Sister Angelica", "Don Carlos", "Mephistopheles", "Rientsi. She also approves on the American opera scene - singing in New York, Chicago, Washington, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas.With hard work and concentration Kabaivanska polished all the roles that brought her international fame.Luciano Pavarotti says about her: "the past is Tosca of Maria Callas. Tosca of our time is Raina Kabaivanska.