No Foreigners Is No Dice.
By: chris | September 4th, 2009
Back in June CSKA Sofia made the bold announcement that they’d only be going forward with Bulgarian players.
“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.”
And they failed miserably. Consider Project No Foreigners abandoned with immediate effect, less than three months after embarking on this journey, as they just signed a foreigner named…Michel Platini.
No, not that Michel Platini. This Michel Platini is a Brazilian striker of sorts, not the European head chez drawing the steaming ire of England these days.
Platini, namesake of the UEFA president, was one of the Bulgarian league’s revelations last season, scoring a series of spectacular goals for Chernomorets Burgas. He joins on a contract running until June 30, 2012.
Fortunately they did not stop there.
CSKA also signed Paraguayan defender Hugo Baez, 26, and his midfield compatriot Jonathan Gomez, 24, after successful trials.
So they set out to buy domestic and ended up with a slew of imports fresh off the boat, meaning they failed miserably. Except they didn’t. CSKA Sofia is in first place in the Bulgarian Prem, having won all four games so far. By a total score of 14-0.
Perhaps buying local is so good it’s almost unfair. Michel Platini must be loving this – both Michel’s, that is.
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Before those three came in, there were three other foreigners in the first team (a Brazilian, a Portuguese, and a Latvian), and three or four more in the reserves team. There have never been plans to sell any of those from the first team.
And in general you should be careful when you quote Bulgarian journalists (even if you’d got those quotes from Reuters), they are worse than The S*n, NOTW and Daily Mail..
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