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Dimitar Berbatov

Dimitar Berbatov
Personal information
Full nameDimitar Ivanov Berbatov
Date of birth30 January 1981(age 34)
Place of birthBlagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2.4 in)
Playing positionForward
Club information
Current clubManchester United
Number9

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Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov ( , -mkdiˈmitɐr bɛrˈbatɔf) (born 30 January 1981) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of wins by Hristo Stoichkov.

Born in Blagoevgrad, Berbatov started out with home-town club Pirin before joining CSKA Sofia as a 17-year-old in 1998. He was signed by Bayer Leverkusen of Germany in January 2001 and played in his first Champions League final 18 months later, coming on as a substitute in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final, which Leverkusen lost 2 � 1 to Real Madrid. After five-and-a-half years with Leverkusen, he joined English club Tottenham Hotspur in July 2006, where he spent two years before moving to Manchester United. He played in his second Champions League final in 2009, during his side's 2 � 0 defeat against FC Barcelona. Berbatov is the first non-Englishman in Premier League history to have scored five goals in a single match, having done so in Manchester United's 7 � 1 win over Blackburn Rovers in November 2010.

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Manchester United Vs. Everton: Lineups - SB Nation Tweet this news
SB Nation--Once again, Wayne Rooney and Javier Hernandez start up top, while -Dimitar Berbatov- doesn't make the bench. For Everton, today marks the return of Tim Cahill, though not to the starting lineup. The Australian star hasn't played for a - Date : Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:04:25 GMT+00:00
Juventus to try and push for Alberto Aquilani - bettor.com (blog) Tweet this news
bettor.com (blog)---Dimitar Berbatov- seems to be the most likeliest of Manchester United's players to be parting ways with the team at the end of the season. The striker has had a rather bizarre season with the club, which sees him being their leadi - Date : Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:07:17 GMT+00:00
Blood Red: Award for Liverpool FC's Raul Meireles does make sense - Liverpool Echo Tweet this news
Liverpool Echo--But the online poll was only between all the player of the month winners, which meant Meireles was only being measured against Samir Nasri, -Dimitar Berbatov-, Fernando Torres and David Luiz. Nasri and Berbatov have long since faded after - Date : Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:08:17 GMT+00:00
Shrewd Fergie Horse Trades Luka Modric For Berbatov Gibson & Obertan - The Spoof (satire) Tweet this news
The Spoof (satire)--In exchange for Croatian Modic, Ferguson is giving Tottenham his brilliant striker -Dimitar Berbatov- - together with two of the most promising youngsters in the Premier League, Irish midfielder Darron Gibson and the French wing-wizard - Date : Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:52:52 GMT+00:00
Dimitar Berbatov has groin problem, could miss Everton clash - Sporting Alert Tweet this news
Sporting Alert--Despite hitting the back of the net more than any other player in the league this season, -Berbatov- has been struggling to get a consistent run in the starting line-up, with Wayne Rooney and Javier Hernandez leading the attack. ... - Date : Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:27:00 GMT+00:00
Transfer Rumours: Manchester United Ready to Sell Berbatov - Bleacher Report Tweet this news
Bleacher Report--One persistent rumour that keeps coming up is that -Dimitar Berbatov- will be sold in the summer. After Berba's FA Cup nightmare on Sunday, that rumour could be closer to reality. Despite leading the Premier League in goals, Berbatov - Date : Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:11:35 GMT+00:00
Is Benzema back on Manchester United radar? - FansFC.com Tweet this news
FansFC.com--Although -Dimitar Berbatov- is currently topping the Premier League goalscoring charts, the future of the Bulgarian is far from certain at Old Trafford. The former Tottenham Hotspur forward will have just twelve months left on his contract in - Date : Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:06:12 GMT+00:00
Sevilla make first move to sign Berbatov - Footylatest Tweet this news
Footylatest--Manchester United striker -Dimitar Berbatov- is being looked at by Spanish La Liga side Sevilla. The Bulgarian who got off to a fine start this season has dropped in the pecking order and Sevilla are looking to take advantage of this by makin - Date : Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:44:31 GMT+00:00
Transfer news: Pepe Reina set to stay at Liverpool, Manchester United's ... - MirrorFootball.co.uk Tweet this news
MirrorFootball.co.uk--Juve have declared an interest in City's Carlos Tevez as the Blues remain hopeful of replacing him with Udinese 's Alexis Sanchez . The Eastlands club will also offer Joe Hart, Vincent Kompany and Nigel de Jong lucrative ne - Date : Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:13:57 GMT+00:00
Tottenham braced for summer exit of key international front man - Sportingo Tweet this news
Sportingo--The Russia international has never fully established himself in the first team at White Hart Lane since joining the North Londoners from Spartak Moscow for £14 million in September 2008 as a replacement for Manchester United-bound -Dimitar Ber - Date : Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:22:10 GMT+00:00

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Stiliyan Petrov
Bulgaria Captain
2006-2010
Succeeded by
Stiliyan Petrov

International goals : Under � 21
1. 3 September 1999 Visby, Sweden Sweden Sweden U21 1 � 0 Win 2000 European Under-21 Football Championship qualifying
2. 2 � 1

: Senior team
1. 12 February 2000 Valparaíso, Chile Chile 2 � 3 Loss Friendly
2. 11 October 2000 Copenhagen, Denmark Denmark 1 � 1 Draw 2002 World Cup Qualification
3. 23 March 2001 Sofia, Bulgaria Iceland 2 � 1 Win 2002 World Cup Qualification
4. 6 June 2001 Reykjavik, Iceland Iceland 1 � 1 Draw 2002 World Cup Qualification
5. 1 September 2001 Valletta, Malta Malta 2 � 0 Win 2002 World Cup Qualification
6.
7. 21 August 2002 Sofia, Bulgaria Germany 2 � 2 Draw Friendly
8. 12 October 2002 Sofia, Bulgaria Croatia 2 � 0 Win Euro 2004 Qualification
9. 30 April 2003 Sofia, Bulgaria Albania 2 � 0 Win Friendly
10.
11. 7 June 2003 Sofia, Bulgaria Belgium 2 � 2 Draw Euro 2004 Qualification
12. 20 August 2003 Sofia, Bulgaria Lithuania 3 � 0 Win Friendly
13. 6 September 2003 Sofia, Bulgaria Estonia 2 � 0 Win Euro 2004 Qualification
14. 10 September 2003 Andorra la Vella, Andorra Andorra 3 � 0 Win Euro 2004 Qualification
15.
16. 31 March 2004 Sofia, Bulgaria Russia 2 � 2 Draw Friendly
17.
18. 28 April 2004 Sofia, Bulgaria Cameroon 3 � 0 Win Friendly
19.
20. 4 September 2004 Reykjavik, Iceland Iceland 3 � 1 Win 2006 World Cup Qualification
21.
22. 9 October 2004 Zagreb, Croatia Croatia 2 � 2 Draw 2006 World Cup Qualification
23. 13 October 2004 Valletta, Malta Malta 4 � 1 Win 2006 World Cup Qualification
24.
28 December 2004 Valencia, Spain Valencian Community 2 � 1 Win Friendly (unrecognized by FIFA)
25. 17 August 2005 Sofia, Bulgaria Turkey 3 � 1 Win Friendly
26.
27. 7 September 2005 Sofia, Bulgaria Iceland 3 � 2 Win 2006 World Cup Qualification
28. 8 October 2005 Sofia, Bulgaria Hungary 2 � 0 Win 2006 World Cup Qualification
29. 12 November 2005 Sofia, Bulgaria Georgia 6 � 2 Win Friendly
30.
31. 16 November 2005 Houston, TX Mexico 3 � 0 Win Friendly
32. 7 February 2007 Nicosia, Cyprus Cyprus 3 � 0 Win Friendly
33.
34. 2 June 2007 Minsk, Belarus Belarus 2 � 0 Win Euro 2008 Qualification
35.
36. 12 September 2007 Sofia, Bulgaria Luxembourg 3 � 0 Win Euro 2008 Qualification
37.
38. 17 October 2007 Tirana, Albania Albania 1 � 1 Draw Euro 2008 Qualification
39. 21 November 2007 Celje, Slovenia Slovenia 2 � 0 Win Euro 2008 Qualification
40. 20 August 2008 Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia-Herzegovina 2 � 1 Win Friendly
41.
42. 5 September 2009 Sofia, Bulgaria Montenegro 4 � 1 Win 2010 World Cup Qualification
43. 10 October 2009 Larnaca, Cyprus Cyprus 1 � 4 Loss 2010 World Cup Qualification
44. 14 October 2009 Sofia, Bulgaria Georgia 6 � 2 Win 2010 World Cup Qualification
45.
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47. 18 November 2009 Valletta, Malta Malta 4 � 1 Win Friendly
48.

Club :
Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Pirin 1998 � 99 9 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 2
CSKA Sofia 1998 � 99 11 3 5 3 0 0 0 0 16 6
1999 � 2000 27 14 4 2 2 0 0 0 33 16
2000 � 01 11 9 0 0 4 7 0 0 15 16
Total 49 26 9 5 6 7 0 0 64 38
Bayer Leverkusen II 2000 � 01 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 6
Bayer Leverkusen 2000 � 01 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
2001 � 02 24 8 6 6 0 0 11 2 0 0 41 16
2002 � 03 24 4 2 0 1 0 7 2 0 0 33 6
2003 � 04 33 16 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 19
2004 � 05 33 20 1 1 2 0 10 5 0 0 46 26
2005 � 06 34 21 2 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 37 24
Total 154 69 14 13 3 0 30 9 0 0 201 91
Tottenham Hotspur 2006 � 07 33 12 5 3 3 1 8 7 0 0 49 23
2007 � 08 36 15 2 2 6 1 8 5 0 0 52 23
2008 � 09 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Total 70 27 7 5 9 2 16 12 0 0 102 46
Manchester United 2008 � 09 31 9 3 1 0 0 9 4 0 0 43 14
2009 � 10 33 12 1 0 2 0 6 0 1 0 43 12
2010 � 11 32 20 2 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 42 21
2011 � 12 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 6 0
Total 99 42 6 1 3 0 23 4 3 1 134 48
Career total 388 171 36 24 15 2 75 32 3 1 517 230

Bulgarian Footballer of the Year

1961: Naydenov * 1962: Kolev * 1963: Shalamanov * 1964: Kotkov * 1965: Asparuhov * 1966: Shalamanov * 1967: Penev * 1968: Simeonov * 1969: Bonev * 1970: Aladzhov * 1971: Penev * 1972: Bonev * 1973: Bonev * 1974: Ivkov * 1975: Ivkov * 1976: Grigorov * 1977: Panov * 1978: Goranov * 1979: Mihaylov * 1980: Zhelyazkov * 1981: Velinov * 1982: Zdravkov * 1983: Mladenov * 1984: Nikolov * 1985: Dimitrov * 1986: Mihaylov * 1987: Iliev * 1988: Penev * 1989: Stoichkov * 1990: Stoichkov * 1991: Stoichkov * 1992: Stoichkov * 1993: Kostadinov * 1994: Stoichkov * 1995: Balakov * 1996: Ivanov * 1997: Balakov * 1998: Yordanov * 1999: Aleksandrov * 2000: Ivanov * 2001: Ivanov * 2002: Berbatov * 2003: S. Petrov * 2004: Berbatov * 2005: Berbatov * 2006: M. Petrov * 2007: Berbatov * 2008: Berbatov * 2009: Berbatov *

Premier League top scorers

1993: Sheringham * 1994: Cole * 1995: Shearer * 1996: Shearer * 1997: Shearer * 1998: Sutton/Dublin/Owen * 1999: Hasselbaink/Owen/Yorke * 2000: Phillips * 2001: Hasselbaink * 2002: Henry * 2003: van Nistelrooy * 2004: Henry * 2005: Henry * 2006: Henry * 2007: Drogba * 2008: C. Ronaldo * 2009: Anelka * 2010: Drogba

Bulgaria squad UEFA Euro 2004

Zdravkov, Ivanov, Kirilov, I. Petkov, Zagorčić, Kotev, Borimirov, M. Petkov, Berbatov, Dimitrov, Lazarov, Kolev, Peev, Chilikov, Hristov, Manchev, M. Petrov, Pažin, S. Petrov, Bojinov, Janković, Stoyanov, Ivankov
Coach : Markov

Manchester United F.C.

1 . Van der Sar 2 . Neville (c) 3 . Evra 4 . Hargreaves 5 . Ferdinand 6 . Brown 7 . Owen 8 . Anderson 9 . Berbatov 10 . Rooney 11 . Giggs 13 . Park 15 . Vidić 16 . Carrick 17 . Nani 18 . Scholes 19 . Welbeck 20 . Fábio 21 . Rafael 22 . O'Shea 23 . J. Evans 24 . Fletcher 25 . Valencia 26 . Obertan 27 . Macheda 28 . Gibson 29 . Kuszczak 30 . De Laet 31 . C. Evans 32 . Diouf 35 . Cleverley 36 . Gray 37 . Cathcart 39 . Chester 40 . Amos 41 . King 42 . Eikrem 43 . James 44 . Dudgeon 45 . Gill 46 . Stewart 47 . Norwood � . Hernández � . Smalling
. Ferguson



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