Sofia, Jan. 4 -- Bulgarian football player and coach Dimitar Penev, who led the national team to a fourth-place finish at the 1994 FIFA World Cup for its best-ever result, died at the age of 80, the Bulgarian Football union announced .
Tributes were paid by football clubs, players and coaches, as well as the outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov.
"The man who made us fourth in the world! The man who shaped dozens of us as people and as athletes! Rest in peace, Boss! You will never be forgotten," Hristo Stoichkov, one of Bulgaria's most successful football players, wrote on Facebook on Saturday.
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