The trainer of the National Football Team will personally invest and will look for partners for the construction of a hotel, stadium and a villa site in Ezerata site, nearby the town.
“I have the support of the local politicians to give permission for Stoichkov to invest in the old stadium of the town and to co-operate with him for the permission for the construction of a hotel by the stadium”, announced the mayor of the municipal Dora Yankova.

“Smolyan” stadium was built in 1961, but in 1985, but official matches were never played on it. The local club “Rodopa” uses “September” stadium in Raikovo neighbourhood.

“Smolyan” stadium is situated on a very nice site and it would be good to modernise it.

It smells like football here, said Stoichkov, after the local administration offered him to invest in the town.
“The old stadium will soon become new”, said Stoichkov.

At the moment the junior formations are playing on the same stadium. At least half of the grass is missing. The tribunes for the audience are weedy. The tubes below the drainage are blocked and in heavy rains the playground is filled with water. “The municipal has deserted the stadium and nothing was done for it for years”, said the ex- football player of Pirin-Stanko Dinev, who is taking care of the maintenance of the facility. “I don’t think that it will happen so easy, more than a million are needed for the repairmen of the stadium,” claimed Dinev.

Stoichkov wants to build a hotel near by the stadium on the place of the now existing changing- room, where teams from Bulgaria and foreign countries will be accommodated. Even in these bad conditions of the sport base, at the moment from Rhodope Mountain are coming teams from the lower divisions of Turkey and Greece, and elite clubs from the country during the summer. Close to the stadium is situated a subsidiary football playground and beach volleyball terrain and a swimming pool.

Stoichkov announced his intentions during the summer, even before Dora Yankova offered him to become an honoured citizen of the town. The offer surprised the local parliament. 13 people from the opposition even posted empty bulletins during the vote.
The news that Stoichkov is going to build a small village with several villas. The area is 15 hectares and is very close to the “St Spirit” chapel in Ezerata site, north of Smolyan. Stoichkov together with two businessmen engaged a team of specialists, to work over the project for the future complex.

The land which was bought by privately and is situated close to the main lift station of “Ezerata” chalet to Snejanka Peak, which offers good connection links to all of the pistes in the resort.

The owner of the lift- “Pamporovo Joint Stock Company” plans to change the now existing lift with a brand new four-speed  seat lift next year. Stoichkov will be close to the new resort Perelik. A nice road will lead to his resort, which was built this spring for 3.1 million euros. South of it is the picturesque “Ezerovo” neighborhood and Smolyan is just 4-5 kilometers below Stoichkov’s villas.
The famous Smolyan lakes are close to Stoichkov’s property. It is still not clear what kind of buildings will be constructed by Stoichkov, but most probably they will be small villas.

The football star is a neighbour of Valentin Zlatev- a head of “Look Oil”. The petrol boss planned to build a hotel and a holiday home in the region. Several small, chalets, rest homes and holiday homes in the village of Ezerovo will be competitors of the football star.
“The interest towards Ezerata is huge”, claim property brokers.