Plovdiv is the third stopover of the Trophy Tour, presented by UniCredit, in Bulgaria. The deputy mayor in charge of sports, Georgi Tityukov, and the regional director of UniCredit Bulbank for Plovdiv, Ivan Geshev, opened the special event in the Central Square;

Hristo Stoichkov was given the right to lift the UEFA Champions League Trophy upon its welcoming in Plovdiv, as he is the only Bulgarian that has ever won this most prestigious trophy.

Hristo Stoichkov, the legendary Bulgarian football player, welcomed the UEFA Champions League Trophy in Plovdiv. The most coveted European football trophy arrived in Plovdiv today around noon thanks to UniCredit – the official bank of UEFA Champions League and with the support of Plovdiv municipality.

Plovdiv is the third stopover of the Trophy Tour, presented by UniCredit, in Bulgaria. The deputy mayor in charge of sports, Georgi Tityukov, and the regional director of UniCredit Bulbank for Plovdiv, Ivan Geshev, opened the special event in the Central Square.

Hristo Stoichkov was given the right to lift the UEFA Champions League Trophy upon its welcoming in Plovdiv, as he is the only Bulgarian that has ever won this most prestigious trophy. Hundreds of citizens and visitors to the city came to take photos with the Trophy, which has been travelling across the country, transported on a special red double-decker bus. So far, this bus has passed around 5000 km in Europe to reach the football fans in five countries – Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria.

After the presenting of the UEFA Champions League Trophy in Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo and Plovdiv, tomorrow is the last stopover of its European Tour – Stara Zagora. There it will be welcomed in the square in front of the municipal building by the Bulgarian football player Petar Hubchev.

UniCredit Bulbank welcomed the UEFA Champions League Trophy in Sofia on October 18th at one of the iconic places in the capital city – the park in front of Ivan Vazov National Theatre where the Trophy was displayed in a specially constructed tent. Representatives of UniCredit Bulbank and UEFA Champions League, as well as Fabio Capello, the official ambassador of UniCredit for UEFA Champions League and Robert Pires, the official ambassador for Bulgaria, opened the three-day event.

The UEFA Champions League Trophy Tour proved to be a huge success for UniCredit by building strong relationships with the fans over the years. So far, the Tour has been through 13 European countries, passing 10,500 km to reach more than 480,000 football fans and to give them the exceptional opportunity to take more than 116,000 photos with the iconic trophy.

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