# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hristo-stoichkov
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:21:29.308Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hristo-stoichkov"
name: "Hristo Stoichkov"
slug: "hristo-stoichkov"
description: "Hristo Stoichkov is a Bulgarian former professional footballer and current football commentator for TUDN. A prolific forward, he is widely regarded as the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. He was the runner-up for the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 1992 and 1994 and received the Ballon d'Or in 1994. He was also named the BTA Best Balkan Athlete of the Year in 1994. In 2004, Stoichkov was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players."
tagline: "Bulgarian footballer (born 1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hristo_stoichkov-2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1966-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           63.41
  momentum:             12.81835194830324
  historical:           26.725704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 250
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/hristo8oficial/"
    handle:    "hristo8oficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1324347/"
    handle:    "nm1324347"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cmgww.com/sports/stoitchkov/"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "هریستو استویچکوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hristo_Stoit%C5%A1kov"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hristo Stoitchkov"
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    title: "Hristo Stoitsjkov"
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    title: "Hristo Stoichkov"
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  - url: "https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump