★Hristo Stoichkov. The Story is the official biography of Hristo Stoichkov 一the world-famous and most beloved Bulgarian soccer player of all time.
★The VIP premiere of the official biograply brought, three Bulgarian presidents together
★The VIP premiere of Hristo Stoichkov.The Story in November 2018 was live on three national TV channels and over 700 local celebrities from the field of sports, arts, politics and business attended it.
★The fastest selling book in recent Bulgarian publishing history reached 70000 print run for its first year on the market
★The first print run of 10000 copies was sold within 48 hours after the book premiere. Second print run: 20000 copies: released on 25 November, sold: 23 December. Third print run: 20000 copies; released on 18 January 2019. Total print run in Bulgarian: 70000 copies
★This is the only Bulgarian book with huge premieres of the Bulgarian language edition in London, Chicago, Toronto and Warsaw.
8000 copies printed in Poland
2500 copies exported to London
2000 copies exported to Chicago
★During the first year of publication Hristo stoichkov visited14 Bulgarian cities;
The planned 2020 second book tour in Bulgaria and abroad has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The usual print runs in Bulgaria are 1000-2000 copies.
★In mid-2020 publishing giant Penguin Random House Audio has acquired the worldwide rights for audio version of the football legend's autobiography in Spanish as the narrator is Stoitchkov himself.
★The official book event and signing session was supposed to be hosted by FC Barcelona on 3 October 2020 but has been postponed for 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
★The English language edition of the book was planned to premiere in Barcelona on 3 October 2020 along with the Spanish version, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic the event has been postponed for 2021.
★The Polish Language edition was released in November 2019.
15 TV interviews, a press conference, and three book events were held within 48 hours in Warsaw.
First print run according to the translation agreement: 3 000 copies. But after the huge media interest following the announcement the Polish publisher SQN increased the print run to 8000 copies.

A searing confession by one of the most incendiary players in the history of football!
The only one in the world to have been awarded the Ballon d’Or after a communist regime banned him from playing professionally. Hristo Stoichkov - El Pistolero of the legendary Barcelona Dream Team stands before you with his autobiography!
The top goal scorer of World Cup ’94 bares his soul, unadorned, with no pretense and no holds barred. Explosive, straight to the point and true to his image from the days when millions adored the magical number 8. Dozens of stories and incidents involving iconic figures from the court of Tsar Football, not only from under the spotlights, but also from behind the scenes of the beautiful game …

Inspired, ambitious, hungry for victory! This was precisely the kind of player I needed to build a Dream Team.
- JOHAN CRUYFF

Maestro Stoichkov filled us with ambition and gave us strength.
- LIONEL MESSI

An undoubted idol who I liked a lot.
- SIR BOBBY ROBSON

His life is devoted to football and to people. He is respected throughout the world for his humanity and his work to develop young talent.
- PELE

Stoichkov was one of the best on the planet.
- PAOLO MALDINI

Hristo Stoichkov
Bulgarian Soccer legend Hristo Stoichkov is named by Pele the
FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. He is the only
Bulgarian soccer player awarded with the Ballon d'or (the Golden Ball).
Stoichkov is best known as:
Top goal scorer in Europe in 1990, winning the European Golden Shoe.
Captain of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth at the 1994
FIFA World cup in the USA. Being the top scorer of the championship, he won the World cup Golden shoe.
Winner of the Ballon d'or (Golden ball) in 1994
One of the most prolific forwards in the world as a part of Johan Cruyff's Barcelona "Dream Team" that won four consecutive La Liga titles and one UEFA Champions League
The premiere of the book, which took place on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Ballon d'Or (the Golden Ball) award, was a phenomenal success.
Hristo Stoichkov is currently pursuing a career in journalism, working as sports commentator and reporter for American Spanish language media giant TUDN(former known as Univision Deportes).
His success as a journalist is comparable to his achievements on the soccer pitch. Stoichkov has never received a refusal for an interview.
The list of soccer stars he has interviewed in person for the first half of 2019 alone includes:
Lionel Messi, Mohamed Salah, Gary Lineker, Neymar, Luis Suarez, James Milner, Gianluigi Buffon, Jurgen Klopp, HenrikLarsson, Andriy Shevchenko, Igor Belanov, Oleg Blochin, Pep Guardiola, Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Salinas, Kylian Mbappe, Edinson Cavani.
Stoichkov is a person of highly professional attitude and charismatic personality and having him as an author/guest/speaker at events is a pleasant and intriguing experience for both guests and representatives of the media.

Vladimir Pamukov
Vladimir Pamukov is a renowned Bulgarian sports journalist with over 30 years of experience in the field.
He has reported from six summer Olympic Games, seven World cups finals, six European Championships and over 250 internationals played by the Bulgarian national football team.
Over the course of his career, he has interviewed football giants including Maradona, Messi, Ronaldinho, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Romario and hundreds of Bulgarian and international sports stars.
Pamukov is the author and editor of numerous books about famous Bulgarian sportspeople like Stefka Kostadinova, Stoichkov (That's Me; Hristo Stoichkov. The story), Valentin Yordanov, Armen Nazaryan, Lubo Ganev.
In the 1990s he made a series of documentary films about Bulgaria's greatest sports figures.
At present Pamukov is writer and presenter of Bulgarian Sunday TV broadcast Code Sport. The program kicked off in 2015 with official guest José Mourinho, then manager of Chelsea. A series of extraordinary interviews followed – with Paolo Maldini, Carlos Valderrama, Franco Baresi, Sepp Blatter, lvan Zamorano, Patrice Evra, David Trezeguet, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Robert Pires, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Txiki Begiristain, Otto Rehhagel, Thomas Bach and over a hundred other world-class sports celebrities.