BERBATOV SCORES
Dimitar Berbatov took a month to score for Manchester United, the club he joined at the close of the transfer window, but when he finally did so, he bagged two goals. Berbatov’s brace helped United win their Champions League match against Danish side Aalborg on September 30, and he might have even got a hat-trick if he had not missed a shot on an open goal early in the match. “I knew that my first goal would come sooner or later,” Berbatov told Sky Sports after the game.

EURO QUALIFYING
Bulgaria’s chances of featuring European football championship finals received a strong boost on September 26, when the game’s European governing body Uefa decided to expand the number of teams in the tournament to 24, starting from 2016. “The European Championships will not lose any quality by that,” Franz Beckenbauer, vice-chairperson of Uefa’s technical and development committee, said in a statement on Uefa’s website.

NOT QUITTING YET
Roumyana Neikova, the rower that grabbed Bulgaria’s sole Olympic gold medal at the Games in Beijing, is not ready to quit the sport just yet. She plans to take a break from training until the end of the year and then decide on her future, Dnevnik daily reported. Neikova, who won her medal in the singles scull event, could take a partner and compete in the double sculls, her coach and spouse Svilen Neikov was quoted as saying.

CHARITY BASKETBALL
Players from Levski Sofia basketball club won the exhibition tournament held in Sofia’s Zala Universiada on October 1, co-organised by the Bulgarian basketball league and fast-food chain KFC. Proceeds from the tournament will be used to buy wheel-chairs for disabled players. Despite players from all eight Bulgarian top-tier clubs participating in the event, attendance was low, website sportni.bg reported.