The Bulgarian will be one of the star attractions in the Legends of the North game with Liverpool at Old Trafford next weekend as the likes of Gary Neville, Patrice Evra, Jaap Stam, Antonio Valencia and Paul Scholes are also set to line up for Bryan Robson's team.
Always displaying a cool persona, the two-time Premier League winner often marked his strikes with minimum fanfare and never let his emotions run away from him, even when enjoying such elation, as when he hit a memorable hat-trick against the Merseysiders in 2010.
When we asked the legendary striker if he could have celebrated more wildly, he replied: "Er, to be honest, no.