Kostadin Vidolov

Kostadin Vidolov
Personal information
Full name	Kostadin Todorov Vidolov
Date of birth	2 May 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth	Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1980–1988	Maritsa Plovdiv
Senior career*
Years	Team
1989–1993	Lokomotiv Plovdiv
1993–1996	Botev Plovdiv
1996	CSKA Sofia
1997–1999	Bursaspor
1999–2000	Botev Plovdiv
2000–2001	CSKA Sofia
2001–2003	Union Berlin
2004	Levski Sofia
2004–2007	Botev Plovdiv
2007	Spartak Plovdiv
2008–2010	Beroe Stara Zagora
Total
International career
1992–1997	Bulgaria
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kostadin Todorov Vidolov (

Spartak Plovdiv, Beroe Stara Zagora, German 1. FC Union Berlin and Turkish Bursaspor

.

For the Bulgarian national team Vidolov was capped 9 times, scoring one goal. He ended his career in the middle of the 2009–10 season.

Career

Vidolov was born in

Maritsa. A young prospect, he transferred to the more popular Lokomotiv Plovdiv

in 1989. Vidolov made more than 100 appearances, scoring 23 goals for Lokomotiv. He had established himself as the playmaker in the side.

In June 1993 he transferred

CSKA Sofia

in the autumn of 1996, after Botev started to experience financial troubles.

In January 1997 Kostadin signed with the Turkish club Bursaspor for a fee of €1,000,000 . There he made 77 appearances, scoring 5 goals. In 1999 Vidolov was signed by Botev as an amateur: the club could not afford to pay Bursaspor the fee for a transfer, and Vidolov was not wanted in Bursa anymore. He made excellent performances for Botev during the 1999/00 season. Vidolov signed with CSKA Sofia in the summer of 2000, taking an instrumental part in their 2000/01 run for the championship title. In 2001 Vidolov signed with the Berlin club – 1. FC Union. Vidolov played two seasons for the German club, with whom he qualified for the final of DFB-Pokal, before moving back to Bulgaria.

Vidolov returned in Bulgaria for the 2003/04 season, playing for

Spartak Plovdiv

, where he played for the first half of the 2007/08 season. As such Vidolov became the only player to have ever played for all four major clubs of Plovdiv.

In January 2008, the veteran signed with

Beroe's second team. Vidolov has also been employed as an assistant manager of Botev Plovdiv.^[6]