In the 2015 Peruvian football season, a striker caused a stir urban sports. It was about Ivan Bulos, who made the difference by scoring nine goals in 23 games wearing the mayor’s shirt. Although the former soccer player made his professional soccer debut with Sporting Cristal, he rose to prominence in 2012 with “Muni.”
His high scoring rate was matched by his biotype, because at a height of 1.89 he had a good passing game and good movements in the attacking zone. This helped him get called up to and signed for Ricardo Gareca’s Peru team O`Higgins from Chile and then to European football. However, his career as a professional footballer would soon end due to constant injuries. What about __ life Ivan jokes?
Iván Bulos was Municipal’s top scorer in the 2015 season. Photo: Liga 1
Iván Bulos and his career as a footballer
As mentioned above, Iván Bulos started his career in 2012 at Sporting Cristal. He made the leap to Europe in the middle of the same year, signing with Standard de Liège in Belgium, where he stayed until 2015, although he didn’t have many minutes and was loaned out to Sint-Truident Club.
After his relationship with the Belgium team ended, he returned to Peru and played for Municipal throughout the 2015 season before joining the club in Chile O’Higgins (2016). In 2017 he made the leap to Europe again and reached the good view the Portuguese league. Some time later he went to Hajduk Split from Croatia, but due to his constant knee injuries, he started enjoying a few minutes.
Iván Bulos retires from football
In 2020 he decided to return to Peru and play for the sports boys, but after a month he suffered an injury that would keep him out for six to eight months, causing him to terminate his contract with the Buenos Aires club. After recovering that same year, Carlos Stein decided to welcome him into his ranks, but he wasn’t even there a year and announced his retirement from football on April 15, 2021.
“This new injury would last a long time and the results are not encouraging. Along with my family, representatives, close friends and my doctor, I have to give up my professional activity because I have a life ahead of me and I don’t want to spend it in a wheelchair,” reads part of the statement that he publishes on his networks.
Iván Bulos left football at the age of 27. Photo: GLR
Ivan Bulos coached PSG
After taking time to process his retirement from football, Ivan jokes He signed with PSG in October 2021 to take up the position of manager of the smaller divisions. The “tank” coached a PSG affiliate in South Florida, USA, which was responsible for the 8-21 year old categories.
“New career starts now! (A new career begins now!),” Bulos wrote on his Instagram account at the time, accompanied by a photo of him in Paris club attire.
Iván Bulos was a coach at one of the PSG academies in the US Photo: Instagram
What is the life of Ivan Bulos?
When it seemed that the future of Ivan jokes He would be abroad, in July 2022 Sporting Cristal welcomed him to take up the position of DT of the U18s.
“Iván Bulos will be the technical director of the U18 youth. Happy to have you back home, Iván,” the sky blue club’s release read.
Cristal welcomes Ivan Bulos. photo shoot