{{Short description|Bulgarian footballer (1961–2017)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{family name hatnote|Faikov|Sadakov|lang=Bulgarian}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Ayan Sadakov | image = File:Ayan Sadakov.JPG | caption = Sadakov in 2013 | fullname = Ayan Faikov Sadakov | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1961|9|26}} | birth_place = Plovdiv, Bulgaria | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|7|1|1961|9|26|df=yes}} | death_place = Plovdiv, Bulgaria | height = {{Height|m=1.76|precision=0}} | position = Midfielder | currentclub = | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | years1 = 1978–1989 | years2 = 1989–1991 | years3 = 1992–1993 | years4 = 1994–1996 | clubs1 = Lokomotiv Plovdiv | clubs2 = Belenenses | clubs3 = Lokomotiv Plovdiv | clubs4 = Botev Plovdiv | caps1 = 320 | caps2 = 48 | caps3 = 31 | caps4 = 20 | goals1 = 111 | goals2 = 9 | goals3 = 6 | goals4 = 2 | totalcaps = 419 | totalgoals = 127 | nationalyears1 = 1981–1991 | nationalteam1 = Bulgaria | nationalcaps1 = 80 | nationalgoals1 = 9 | manageryears1 = 2006–2007 | manageryears2 = 2008–2009 | managerclubs1 = Lokomotiv Plovdiv | managerclubs2 = Lokomotiv Plovdiv }} '''Ayan Faikov Sadakov''' ({{langx|bg|Аян Фаиков Садъков}}) (26 September 1961 – 1 July 2017) was a Bulgarian footballer and a key member of the Bulgarian national team in the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
==Club career== Sadakov began his club career at the local Lokomotiv Plovdiv. For "The Smurfs" he played eleven seasons, before transferring to Portugal's C.F. Os Belenenses in 1989. Two years later he return in Lokomotiv and played two years, before signed with Botev Plovdiv in summer 1994.
==International== Sadakov made 80 appearances for Bulgaria, between 1981 and 1991 and scored 9 goals.<ref>{{cite web|author=Mamrud, Roberto|title=Bulgaria - Record International Players|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/bulg-recintlp.html|date=2009-07-16|website=RSSSF|accessdate=2009-08-17}}</ref> He played in four matches for his country at 1986 FIFA World Cup.<ref>{{FIFA player|57294|Anyo Sadkov}}</ref>
==Coaching career== Sadakov had been appointed on September 29, 2008 as a manager of Lokomotiv Plovdiv a second time to replace Dragan Kanatlarovski.
==Personal life== In 2014, Sadakov announced he was diagnosed with ALS.<ref>[http://www.blitz.bg/sport/article/241652 Interview with Sadakov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923225937/http://www.blitz.bg/sport/article/241652 |date=2015-09-23 }} in Bulgarian</ref> He died on 1 July 2017, aged 55.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://m.gol.bg/a-grupa/2017-07-01/pochina-legendarniyat-ayan-sadakov|title=Тъжна вест! Почина легендарният Аян Садъков|date=1 July 2017|publisher=Gol.bg|language=Bulgarian|accessdate=2 July 2017}}</ref>
==Honours== ;Lokomotiv Plovdiv *Cup of the Soviet Army (1): 1983
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{NFT player|pid=21258}}
{{Bulgaria Squad 1986 World Cup}}
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