Coaching Career
Penev was manager of the Bulgaria national football team during the 1994 FIFA World Cup, where his team reached the semi-finals and then lost the bronze medal game with Sweden. Throughout his career as manager he demonstrated excellence in both tactics and team psychology. Penev's most notable quality was his ability to work well with young players. During his career at CSKA Sofia he discovered a lot of previously unknown or little-known talented youths and used them as a basis for a domestically and internationally successful squad. Amongst them Hristo Stoichkov, Emil Kostadinov, Luboslav Penev, Martin Petrov, Stilian Petrov and Dimitar Berbatov. On 30 July 2007 he was appointed manager of the Bulgaria national football team for the second time. Last he was the manager of CSKA Sofia, on 6 March 2009 CSKA fired the coach, The Bulgarian team decided to sub him with his nephew Luboslav Penev, former player of CSKA Sofia, Celta Vigo, Valencia and Atletico Madrid.
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