Career
He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian football players of all time. He was voted the best Bulgarian football player of the 20th Century, ahead of Hristo Stoichkov. Asparuhov was nominated for the 1965 Ballon Doctorate"Or award, finishing eighth in the final standings.
Normally a striker, Asparuhov was renowned for his finishing, technique and heading ability.
Asparuhov was a striker for Levski Sofia from 1960 to 1961 and 1964 to 1971, and for Botev Plovdiv from 1961 to 1963. He played 245 matches and scored 150 goals in the top Bulgarian division.
Some of the top European clubs at the time sought his services. In the 1965-1966 European Cup, Levski played Benfica (with Eusébio in the squad).
When Benfica eliminated Levski after hard fought 3:2 and 2:2 scorelines and Gundi having netted 3 of all Levski goals (one of them Simo Nikolov), Europe began to view Gundi with interest.
In fact, he was the first player to score two goals in Benfica"s stadium. The Portuguese club wanted to buy Asparuhov, but the communist government of Bulgaria did not allow them to do southern Asparuhov featured in 50 games for the Bulgarian national football team, scoring 19 goals.
He scored the only goal for Bulgaria in the 1966 World Cup in England.
Asparuhov died in a car crash in 1971 with teammate Nikola Kotkov. Over 550,000 people gathered at his funeral in Sofia.
The present stadium of Levski Sofia is named Georgi Asparuhov Stadium in honour of the famous striker.