Emanuel Lukanov
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 25 May 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Fratria (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1998 | Etar | 73 | (4) |
| 1998–1999 | Derthona | 23 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | Etar | 27 | (0) |
| 2000–2003 | Pergocrema | ||
| 2003–2004 | Chiari | ||
| 2004–2005 | Castellana | ||
| 2005–2010 | Nuova Verolese | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 2010 | Cherno More (youth coach) | ||
| 2010–2017 | Cherno More (assistant coach) | ||
| 2017 | Cherno More | ||
| 2018–2019 | Al-Qadsiah (assistant coach) | ||
| 2020–2020 | Jagiellonia Białystok (assistant coach) | ||
| 2021–2022 | Beroe (assistant & fitness coach) | ||
| 2022–2023 | Etar Veliko Tarnovo | ||
| 2024– | Fratria | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Emanuel Lukanov (Bulgarian: Емануел Луканов; born 25 May 1975) is a Bulgarian retired football defender and currently the sports director and manager of Fratria.
Lukanov has 8 caps for the Bulgaria U21 national side.[1]
Playing career
[edit]He was born on 25 May 1975 in Veliko Tarnovo. He is 181 cm tall and weighs 75 kg. He played for Etar and the Italian Derthona, Pergocrema, Chiari 1912, Nuova Verolese. Winner of the PFL Cup in 1995 with Etar. The "A" group played 73 games and scored 4 goals. There are 4 matches for Etar in the Intertoto tournament. Since the autumn of 2006 he has been playing coach of Nuova Verolise. In 2015 he won the Champion Cup of Bulgaria with Cherno More, as assistant coach of the representative team. He had a training session at UEFA campus in Nyon, Switzerland where he attended. Also was a coach in the first INTER Academy Camp 2018 in Bulgaria.
Coach career
[edit]In July 2010, Lukanov began working as a coach at the Youth Academy of the Cherno More. In October that year he was recruited as an assistant of Stefan Genov in the first team. He worked for 7 years as assistant coach of the Cherno More, and during this period he also assisted Nikola Spasov, Adalbert Zafirov and Georgi Ivanov.
On 31 December 2016 Lukanov finished a coaching course and obtained a UEFA PRO license. In September 2017, he was confirmed as a senior coach of the Cherno More, replacing Georgi Ivanov's resignation.
In July 2018 INTER Academy made their first INTER Academy Camp in Bulgaria and he was one of the coaches.
In November 2018 he became part of the coach team of Ivaylo Petev in Saudi club Al-Qadsiah.
In January 2020, Lukanov started working in the coaching team of Petev in Jagiellonia Białystok.[2] (till 1 September 2020)
In June 2021, he became part of the coach team in Beroe as an assistant & fitness coach.
On 6 June 2022, Lukanov was announced as the new manager of Etar Veliko Tarnovo.
On 5 October 2023, after leaving Etar Veliko Tarnovo manager position, he was announced as the new sports director of Fratria.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Състав на "Черно море" за сезон 2017/2018" (in Bulgarian). Cherno More official website. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
- ^ "New head coach and asistante coach". Archived from the original on 1 January 2020.
- ^ Емо Луканов става спортен директор
External links
[edit]- Profile at calciatori.com
- Emanuel Lukanov at Soccerway
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Bulgarian men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
- Bulgarian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Bulgarian football managers
- PFC Cherno More Varna managers
- FC Fratria managers
- FC Etar (Veliko Tarnovo) players
- ASD HSL Derthona players
- Footballers from Veliko Tarnovo