Nayden Naydenov
“We have offers from a couple of strong teams that we shall visit for friendly tournaments. We will decide with the coaches which invitation we will finally accept but this will be cleared in a fortnight” says team manager Lyudmil Naydenov.
Head coach Nayden Naydenov (pictured) who guided Bulgaria to a fourth place at the 2012 London Olympics is still the mentor of the club, but if the National Federation requires him to give up his duties with DUPNITSA to focus exclusively on the national team, the club will have to look for somebody else. “If there are the conditions and I am offered a long-term contract with a strategy for the development of the national team, I may decide to leave Marek” he stresses. “But this is not the case for the moment”. Naydenov was voted Bulgaria’s best coach this past July in a special poll joined by local journalists.
“We will keep the roster that claimed the national league last year. We have received some offers for our players but nobody is leaving. We will contract a couple of players more for our campaign in the Champions League, because this is extremely valuable to us. Our team is very young and has great potential. They are aged 20, on average, and with this participation in the Champions League they will have the opportunity to see where they stand in comparison with the best sides in Europe”.
Marek Union-Ivkoni DUPNITSA was assigned by the DOL to Pool F together with Noliko MAASEIK of Belgium, Arkas IZMIR of Turkey and Spain’s CAI TERUEL.
