Dimitar Berbatov’s short bio

Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov came into the world on the 30th of January, 1981 in Blagoevgrad. His younger brother Asen is also a football player for Pirin-Blagoevgrad. Margarita, his mother, is a former handball player and Ivan, his father, used to be a football player too. He is named after his grandfather – Dimitar who played for Struma. On 15th October, 2009 he fathered a girl named Dea.

Berbatov’s interest in football began at the age of 10 when he joined the local Pirin and developed further 8 years later in CSKA (Sofia). In his very first year playing for CSKA the team won the Cup of Bulgaria and in 2000 ended second in the Bulgarian Championship. For CSKA Berbatov scored 26 goals in 56 matches. He signed a contract for 4 years and a half with Bayer Leverkusen in 2001. The transfer was worth 4,5 million DM. And his transfer to Tottenham in May, 2006 was for 16 million Euros which is almost nothing compared to his transfer to Manchester United in 2008 for the mind-blowing 30,75 million pounds.

Dimitar Berbatov holds the record for being Footballer No1 of Bulgaria 7 times – in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. He won the award “Best striker of Bulgaria” in 2006, and “Fans’ Footballer of the Year” for the third consecutive year.  Berbatov has scored 69 goals in 154 matches in the Bundesliga. And in the European tournaments he has scored 26 goals in 48 matches.

 As one of the spurs of Tottenham he won the League Cup against Chelsea in February 2008. In December the same year but with Manchester United he won the final of the FIFA Club World Cup against LDU Quito. After a draw against Arsenal on 16^th May, 2009, a whole round before the end of the Premier League, Manchester United celebrated as champion. Thus Berbatov became the first Bulgarian having this title. Manchester United with Berbatov in its front lines won the Carling Cup against Aston Villa in February, 2010.