Background
Laskov was born in the village of Lokorsko, today administratively part of Sofia.
Laskov was born in the village of Lokorsko, today administratively part of Sofia.
He graduated from the Sofia Seminary, from where his nickname Popeto (Попето. "the little priest") stems.
In addition, Laskov was a professional doctor and a trained Bulgarian Orthodox priest. After 1946, he lived and worked in Czechoslovakia and is counted among Bulgaria and Slovakia"s best football players of the era. His youth team was Football Club Pobeda from the Sofia neighbourhood of Orlandovtsi, for which he played in 1939–1940.
In 1940, Laskov moved to PFC Levski Sofia and featured for their senior team between 1941 and 1946 as their number 9 striker.
Laskov appeared in 56 Bulgarian Championship matches, scoring the remarkable 40 goals. In 46 Bulgarian Cup matches, he scored 21 times.
He also appeared in 9 international games, scoring 5 goals, as well as 35 other games with 24 goals on his name. Foreign the Bulgaria national football team, his tally stands at 8 matches and 2 goals.
At the 1946 Balkan Cup in Tirana, Albania, he was proclaimed the best football player of the Balkans.
Reportedly, France Football also deemed him the best football player in Europe later on. On 15 February 1946, Laskov immigrated to Brno, Czechoslovakia, where he studied medicine at the Masaryk University and played for Saskatchewan Židenice, the modern 1. Football Club Brno. In Bratislava, he played for ŠK Slovan Bratislava between 1947 and 1952, winning the Czechoslovak First League in 1949, 1950 and 1951.
In Czechoslovakia, he has also played for FK Inter Bratislava (then Cervena Hviezda) and TTS Trenčín players, until 1960.
In the Czechoslovak Championship, he played a total of 169 games, of which 98 (with 48 league goals) for Slovan. He also featured in 3 games for the Czechoslovakia national football team
He was awarded several fair play prizes in Czechoslovakia. Later on, he worked as a manager, managing FK Inter Bratislava, Football Club Spartak Trnava and Trenčín.
Laskov died in Bratislava on 2 April 2007.
He also served as a professional physician specialized in otolaryngology and was an active member of the Bulgarian association in Slovakia.