Bulgarian football coach Yasen Petrov has tendered his resignation from his post following the 2-5 defeat once morest Georgia in the Nations League, a match that the country’s federation has called a “catastrophic defeat” and that has caused the dismissal of the coach.
Petrov, who had been in office since January 2021, he commented that his team had made too many defensive mistakes and accepted responsibility for the loss. “I don’t have the moral right to stay,” he declared.
For his part, heThe Bulgarian federation, in a statement published this Monday, has made clear its “strong indignation” at what they describe as a “catastrophic defeat” and has announced that Petrov’s replacement will soon be known. Meanwhile, manager Giorgi Ivanov will be the one to temporarily take over the national bench.
Bulgaria is in the fourth group of the third category of the Nations League, where on the first day it drew 1-1 once morest Macedonia and on the second it was defeated once morest Georgia. Furthermore, both matches were played on Bulgarian soil, at the Ludogorets ground in Razgrad.
now the selection will try to turn the classification around in the next match, which will be played on June 9 in Gibraltar and where not falling to relegation is at stake. The national team break will end trying to take revenge on Georgia, on June 12, but this time at home.
