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Bulgaria vs Belgium international football match report

Date, kick-off time:	Sunday, 22 May 1960
National teams, score:	Bulgaria - Belgium 4:1
Competition:	International Friendly
Referee:	Nikolay Latyshev, Moscow / Soviet Union
Attendance, venue:	45 000, National Stadium Vasil Levski, Sofia
Goals:	0:1 (33') André Piters, 1:1 (59') Ivan Kolev (pen.), 2:1 (61') Dimitar Yordanov, 3:1 (64') Ivan Kolev, 4:1 (87') Todor Diev

Bulgaria national football team line-up in match Nr.140

Managed by head coach Stoyan Ormandzhiev, coach Krum Milev
Player	Caps	Age	Club
Georgi Naydenov	25	28	CDNA, Sofia
Kiril Rakarov	46	27	CDNA, Sofia
Manol Manolov	48	34	CDNA, Sofia
Ilia Kirchev	3	27	SPS Spartak, Varna
Dimitar Largov	9	23	SPS Slavia, Sofia
Nikola Kovachev	26	25	CDNA, Sofia
Todor Diev	25	26	SPS Spartak, Plovdiv
Dimitr Yakimov	6	18	SPS Septemvri, Sofia
Dimitar Yordanov	4	30	SP Levski, Sofia
Ivan Kolev	48	29	CDNA, Sofia
Spiro Debarski	9	26	SPS Lokomotiv, Sofia
Georgi Sokolov	4	17	SP Levski, Sofia

Belgium national team line-up in match Nr.282

Managed by head coach Constant Vanden Stock, coach Viktor Havlicek (Austria)
Player	Caps	Age	Club
Armand Seghers	10	33	ARA La Gantoise, Gent
Henri Diricx	29	32	Union Saint-Gilloise SR, Vorst
Guy Raskin	5	23	Royal Beerschot AC, Antwerpen
Vic Mees	67	33	Royal Antwerp FC, Antwerpen
Charles Saeys	4	26	Royal Daring Club de Bruxelles, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
Jef Jurion	22	23	RSC Anderlecht, Anderlecht
Jacques Stockman	5	21	RSC Anderlecht, Anderlecht
Martin Lippens	12	25	RSC Anderlecht, Anderlecht
Michel Delire	5	26	ROC Charleroi, Charleroi
Paul Van Den Berg	12	23	Union Saint-Gilloise SR, Vorst
André Piters	19	29	R Standard Club Liégeois, Ougrée

Match stats

National team	Players	Average caps	Average age	Clubs	Goals	Cautions	Expulsions
Bulgaria	12	21.083	26.487	7	4	0	0
Belgium	11	17.273	27.276	8	1	0	0

Historical data sources

Футбол (Sofia), №6, 17.05.1960; Спортна библиотека

Gazet van Anwerpen (Antwerp), №123, 23.05.1960; Concentra online archief

Grenz-Echo (Eupen), №120, 23.05.1960; GrenzEcho - Archiv

Comments

Bulgaria vs Belgium post-match head-to-head

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals	Points/Match
1	1	0	0	4 - 1	2.000

Bulgaria matches

Previous match:

XVII. Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament

Bulgaria vs Romania* 2-1

Sofia, Sunday 1 May 1960

Next match:

Friendly International

Poland vs Bulgaria 4-0

Chorzów, Sunday 26 June 1960

Bulgarian football team international record

Belgium matches

Previous match:

Friendly International

Belgium vs Netherlands 2-1

Deurne, Sunday 24 April 1960

Next match:

Friendly International

Belgium vs Netherlands 1-4

Deurne, Sunday 2 October 1960

Belgian national team international results

Top Bulgaria scorers

1. Liubomir Angelov (1931 - 1940) - 26 goals
2. Dimitar Milanov (1948 - 1959) - 20 goals
3. Ivan Kolev (1952 - 1960) - 19 goals
... Todor Diev (1955 - 1960) - 8 goals
... Dimitar Yordanov (1960) - 2 goals

(correct as of May 22, 1960)

Bulgaria national team goal scorers

Top Belgium scorers

1. Bernard Voorhoof (1928 - 1940) - 30 goals
2. Jef Mermans (1947 - 1956) - 27 goals
3. Ray Braine (1925 - 1939) - 26 goals
4. Robert De Veen (1906 - 1913) - 26 goals
... André Piters (1957 - 1960) - 7 goals

(correct as of May 22, 1960)

all-time top Belgium goal scorers

Brief match report

Sun. 22 May 1960
National Stadium Vasil Levski, Sofia
Bulgaria 4-1 Belgium
Goals: Piters 33, Kolev 59, Yordanov 61, Kolev 64, Diev 87

Bulgaria: Naydenov, Rakarov, Manolov (c), Kirchev, Largov, Kovachev, Diev, Yakimov, Yordanov, Kolev, Debarski (Sokolov). Managed by Ormandzhiev, Milev.

Belgium: Seghers, Diricx, Raskin, Mees (c), Saeys, Jurion, Stockman, Lippens, Delire, Van Den Berg, Piters. Managed by Vanden Stock, Havlicek (Austria).

Att: 45 000
Ref: Latyshev (Soviet Union)