Career
Among football fans he is also popular with the nickname Chico (Bulgarian: Чико). Dermendzhiev started his career in Football Club Maritsa Plovdiv. In 1959 he was transferred to PFC Botev Plovdiv.
He played for the club 19 years during the 1960s and 1970s.
Dermendzhiev participated in 447 matches in A Grupa and scored 194 goals for PFC Botev Plovdiv. He hold the third place in the all time goalscorers ranking of A Grupa.
Throughout his long career Dermendzhiev scored 7 hat-tricks. He made 58 appearances for the Bulgaria national football team and scored 19 goals from 1966 to 1977.
After the end of his career as a player Dinko Dermendzhiev became a coach.
His first team was Chepinets Velingrad during season 1978-1979. His most successful period as a manager of Botev Plovdiv was from 1979 to 1984. After that he has been manager of the club for shorter periods on several other occasions: 1989-1991, 1992-1993, 1995-1996, 1997-1998, 1999-2001.
In 1984-1985 he was a manager of PFC Shumen.
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