Giglio crosses the capital

Malta midfield player Stefan Giglio has made a surprise move from PFC CSKA Sofia to city rivals PFC Lokomotiv Sofia.

'Classy player'
"Giglio has already signed with us," Lokomotiv managing director Boycho Velichkov said. "We have signed a classy player and I hope that he will prove his worth with us." Giglio moved to Bulgaria towards the end of the 1999/00 season when he joined CSKA on loan from Valletta FC in his native Malta. He scored three goals and was given a permanent contract at the beginning of the next season.

Under threat
After suffering a tough injury that sidelined him for ten months, Giglio returned for CSKA in May 2002, scoring two goals as a substitute in a cup game. However, the arrivals of Bulgarian Under-21 starlet Emil Gargorov from Lokomotiv Sofia, Portuguese player João Paulo Brito and F.Y.R. Macedonia captain Artim Sakiri, had put his first-team prospects under threat.

Reunited with pair
Giglio, who has played more than 20 times for Malta, will be reunited with former CSKA team-mates Rumen Kalchev and Samet Ashimov at Lokomotiv.