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Bulgaria international striker DIMITAR RANGELOV of FC Maccabi Tel Aviv races away from FC Hapoel Tel Aviv’s South Africa international defender BEVAN FRANSMAN (6) during the Big Tel Aviv Derby this past weekend at the Bloomfield Stadium. (maccabi-tlv.co.il)
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The name of Bulgaria international striker DIMITAR RANGELOV, mired in a three-month long goalless drought, resurfaced on the scoresheet at the most opportune time for FC MACCABI TEL AVIV in the monster derby match with fierce intra-city, arch-rival FC Hapoel Tel Aviv over the weekend.
Rangelov, on loan from runaway Bundesliga leader Borussia Dortmund, registered just his second strike of this Ligat ha’Al season to earn a draw for the Yellows in the Big Tel Aviv Derby. As a matter of fact, scoring goals has been rather challenging for the Bulgarian attacker the past few years. Indeed, the newly-turned 28-year-old has managed just three league goals since leaving German club FC Energie Cottbus in the summer of 2009.
During the 2008-09 campaign, Rangelov recorded nine goals in 27 Bundesliga games for the one-time D.D.R. Oberliga outfit. A move costing 1.0 million Euros to Borussia Dortmund followed but the Bulgarian spent most of the 2009-10 schedule on the bench behind Paraguay World Cup striker LUCAS BARRIOS, who finished third in the German top flight with 19 goals. Rangelov, for his part, played just ten Bundesliga matches scoring but a single goal for die Schwarzgelben.
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Striker DIMITAR RANGELOV (8), who has won 24 caps for Bulgaria in his career, scored 15 goals in 49 Bundesliga games for former East German club FC Energie Cottbus over two seasons before a transfer costing 1.0 million Euros to Borussia Dortmund in the summer of 2009. (bundesliga.de)
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The former PFC Slavia Sofia striker made just one appearance, that as a substitute, for Borussia Dortmund at the beginning of the new 2010-11 season. But the purchase by die Schwarzgelben of Poland international attacker ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI from KKS Lech Poznan for 5.0 million Euros always left Rangelov looking surplus to requirements at Signal Iduna Park. Thus, the Bulgarian was lent to FC Maccabi Tel Aviv fo the remainder of this term.
Rangelov registered his first Ligat ha’Al goal on November 6 in the Yellows’ 2-0 triumph over FC Hapoel Ashkelon but a second would not come for some time. The Bulgarian’s strike in the Big Tel Aviv Derby arrived on his 14th appearance for FC Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Israeli top flight.
It should be noted that, in spite of the lack of goals, Rangelov has been laying the ball off well and is second on FC Maccabi Tel Aviv with four assists in Ligat ha’Al this season.
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Bulgaria international striker DIMITAR RANGELOV (11) of Borussia Dortmund shoots past Bayer Leverkusen’s Germany international goalkeeper RENE ADLER to score his one and only goal of the 2009-10 Bundesliga season during the late March match at Signal Iduna Park in North Rhine-Westphalia. (bigsoccer.com)
