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Born on 17.05.1955 in Dimitrovgrad Kaspar Simeonov is Olympic vice-champion of volleyball from Moscow, Russia, in 1980. He took sixth place in the World Cup Tournament in Japan in 1977 and fifth place in the European Championship in Finland in 1977. He has had 453 matches in the A group and 150 games in the national team of Bulgaria. Simeonov’s first steps in volleyball were in Dimitrovgrad under the coach Slavcho Slavchev. He studied at the Institute for physical activity and sport Vasil Levski and played for the team of Lokomotiv (Plovdiv) under the coach Kiril Nedev. Simeonov competed for the following clubs: Minior –Dimitrovgrad (1968 – 1970), Lokomotiv Plovdiv (1970 – 1984), Avellino, Italy (1984 – 1986) and Kijeti, Italy (1986 – 1989). In 1989 he began his coaching career in the team of Lokomotiv (Plovdiv), where he is also an executive director. Kaspar Simeonov was a coach of the Bulgarian National Volleyball Team for men from 1992 until 1994. He was awarded “Honorary sign of the city of Plovdiv” 2019. Interview with Kaspar Simeonov: Volleyball was love at first sight for me |
Project № BG06-103 "Establishing a Youth Centre in the City of Plovdiv" under the programme "Children and Youth at Risk", component 1 "Care for Youth at Risk" with the financial support of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2009-2014.
Project № BGLD-1.003-0002 "Youth Centre Plovdiv - a powerful factor for local development" under the programme “Local development, poverty reduction and enhanced inclusion of vulnerable groups” funded by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2014-2021.
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