Memorable quotes of his are:
"...the colleague Pele next to me..." (when the famous Brazilian footballer commented for some television in the next to the Kolev's cabin)
and "...God is Bulgarian..." (when Kostadinov scored a crucial goal in the last minute of the match between France and Bulgaria that took the Bulgarian team to the 1994 FIFA World Cup).
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