{"id":514711,"date":"2026-09-10T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514711"},"modified":"2026-09-10T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:01:55","slug":"martin-sotirov-returns-to-balkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/martin-sotirov-returns-to-balkan\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Sotirov returns to Balkan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"0\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"e571b967-1c28-4c35-bc45-b81a0cf71c21\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-6\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<h2 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-section-id=\"389zv6\" data-start=\"1082\" data-end=\"1102\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1102\">Back in green<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1104\" data-end=\"1272\"><strong data-start=\"1104\" data-end=\"1160\">Balkan BC has announced the return of Martin Sotirov<\/strong>. The Bulgarian guard is already familiar with the club, having played for Balkan during the <strong data-start=\"1253\" data-end=\"1271\">2023\/24 season<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1274\" data-end=\"1381\">That year, Sotirov helped the team finish <strong data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1337\">second in the NBL<\/strong> and reach the <strong data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1380\">Bulgarian Cup semifinals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"ao62xw\" data-start=\"1383\" data-end=\"1414\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1414\">Back after spells abroad<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1540\">Following his first stint with Balkan, Sotirov played for <strong data-start=\"1474\" data-end=\"1493\">Rapid Bucure\u0219ti<\/strong> in Romania and <strong data-start=\"1509\" data-end=\"1527\">Spartak Pleven<\/strong> last season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1542\" data-end=\"1660\">He had already joined the team for <strong data-start=\"1577\" data-end=\"1599\">summer preparation<\/strong>, and his return to Balkan has now been officially confirmed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1730\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201c<strong data-start=\"1663\" data-end=\"1694\">Welcome home again, Martin!<\/strong>\u201d the club said in its announcement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">Visualizza questo post su Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdD3MYUoAgG\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Un post condiviso da BC Balkan \ud83c\udfc0 (@balkanbotevgrad)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulgarian club announces the return of the guard, who previously played for Balkan during the 2023\/24 season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":514710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[221,197],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-514711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-eurocup","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-alle-14.00.43.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514711"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=514711"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=514711"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=514711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}