The Bulgarian Government has asked Borislav Mihailov, president of the country's football federation, to resign from his post following incidents of racist dye in the match against England, which forced the referee to stop the match even twice.
"I urge Borislav Mihailov to resign immediately as president of the Bulgarian Football Union. It is unacceptable for Bulgaria, which is one of the most tolerant countries in the world and where people of different ethnicities and religions live in peace, be associated with racism and xenophobia "wrote Boyko Borissov, Prime Minister of the country, in his official profile of 'Facebook'.
"The Prime Minister called me urgently recently. The Government has done a lot for the development of Bulgarian football in the last four years, but after the last events and incidents of the night he has ordered me to suspend from Tuesday any relationship with the BFU, including the financial one, until the resignation of Boris Mihailov, "said Deporteds Minister Krasen Kralev on Tuesday.
The Bulgarian team fell in Vasil Levsky of the capital by a hard 0-6 against England, but all the attention fell on the two occasions that the Croatian referee Ivan Bebek had to stop the game because of the racist chants of the local fans to the visiting players and despite the fact that the stadium was partially closed due to UEFA's sanction for these attitudes in the matches against Kosovo and the Czech Republic last June.
However, both the local players and their coach, Krasimir Balakov , said they had not heard anything and even the coach blamed the English fans. "During the second part they used words towards our fans that I find unacceptable," he said after the game.
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