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| The Patron,The Bulgarian hero-VASIL LEVSKI: „ If I will win will win the whole nation, if I will loose, will loose myself only.” The Levski football and sports club has the honour, pride and enormous moral obligation to wear the name of the most worthy Bulgarian. Ideas, struggle and self-sacrifice of Vasil Levski, the Apostle of Liberty, serve as inspiring patriotic example to people. His epochal life-work and the bright life model will stay in the hearts and conscience of the Bulgarians for ever and will fill the generations with love and gratitude.
Vasil Levski (Vasil Ivanov Kunchev) is born on 18 July (6 July old style) 1837 in Karlovo. On 26 December 1872 is captured near the Kakrinsko Hanche (to east of Lovech) by the Turkish police in result of treachery committed by the Lovetch priest Lukanov. The court sentences him to death by hanging. The sentence is executed in the vicinities of Sofia in 1983. Vasil Levski is hung near the centre of today’s Sofia whereon a monument is built up in his honour.
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