Bulgarian footballer honoured with minute’s silence … despite not being dead
- Petko Ganchev mistakenly commemorated by former club
- ‘When I heard the terrible news, I poured myself a brandy’
A Bulgarian footballer who was honoured with a minute’s silence by his former club, despite not being dead, has shared his side of the story and admitted “being buried alive is quite stressful, really”.
The life of Petko Ganchev was commemorated by the top-division side Arda Kardzhali last Sunday, after they were wrongly informed of the former striker’s demise.
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