CSKA Sofia Plan to Go Local (or: Why You Can’t Always Trust Wikipedia)

By: Daryl | June 16th, 2009

CSKA Sofia made themselves popular with Sepp Blatter today by announcing a policy of Bulgarian players only. Not so much 6+5 as 11+0.

CSKA finished second to Levski Sofia in the Bulgarian league, missing out on the title by just one point. And so now they’re making some changes.

“From now on our policy will be to rely only on Bulgarian players,” the Sofia-based club’s chief executive Ventsislav Zhivkov was quoted as saying in 7 dni sport daily on Tuesday.

“Everyone in the club is convinced that this is right and will bring us success,” he said, while admitting that it may be difficult to remove some foreign players that were still under contract.

“You know that desire is one thing while realisation is another,” Zhivkov added.

Not on Wikipedia Ventislav. On Wikipedia you can remove players with the click of a button.

Here’s the Wikipedia CSKA squad list from earlier today:

And here’s the Wikipedia CSKA squad list right now:

Proof that Wikipedia isn’t always trustworthy, because certain people are a little too eager to get to the editing. Those Brazilian, Portuguese and Cameroon players are actually still CSKA players at time of writing.

Still, bold move from CSKA Sofia. If they’re successful in going all Bulgarian they’ll join the likes of C.D. Guadalajara (who field only Mexican players) and Athletic Bilbao (only Basque players).

And that’s where my knowledge ends and I turn it over to Offside readers: Do you know any other football teams that have adopted this policy?

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boyko

Dudes, as a CSKA supporter I must say that this is the only right choice right now. Because these foreign players were substitutes most games, and most of all they are not any good than the Bulgarian lads which are neglected for the big commission checks of agents of mediocre players. Don't take this as a radical racist thing or something. The difference in the salaries between bulgarian and foreign players is like 5-6 times more in advantage to the foreigners.
Matt

El Nacional (Quito, Ecuador) play with only Ecuadorian players. They're considered the Army team.

Back in my playing days with the u-20's of LDU-Quito they had this pretty good midfielder by the name of Antonio Valencia....
davor

a team in costa rica has the same policy, i think its their biggest, or one of, team aswell.
Peter

this is amazing news! This pretty much ensures levski's domination until this idiotic policy ends.

Because you know they won't make any other changes, like "invest" into their academy...