After two delays due to problems with the coronavirus, national team coach Igor Angelovski eventually revealed the squad of 23 players for the upcoming play-off against Kosovo and the two Nations League encounters.

photo by FFM: the Macedonians celebrate a goal against Armenia last month

Today Napoli revealed that they have only one positive player after the second tests and sadly for our national team that single individual is Elif Elmas. That means that Macedonia will be without a great player in the important play-off for reaching the EURO.

Goran Pandev is also a problem. He had three negative tests, but since 22 at Genoa tested positive all other must go in quarantine, according to the Italian law. The FFM probably found a way to bring Pandev to Macedonia, maybe through diplomatic relations.

Back in the squad are Ferhan Hasani and Tihomir Kostadinov, while there is a change in one of the keepers with Daniel Bozhinovski being summoned to replace Dejan Iliev who is not playing at all. Angelovski continues to ignore David Mitov Nilsson who is currently our best keeper having in mind that Dimitrievski is also not playing, but sits at the bench at his club. The call for Hasani and Kostadinov is also very strange since both aren’t playing, while there is Ljupcho Doriev who is in great form at Shkendija, but is ignored.

Stole Dimitrievski – Rayo Vallecano
Damjan Shishkovski – Doxa
Daniel Bozhinovski – Sileks

Stefan Ristovski – Sporting
Visar Musliu – Fehérvár
Egzon Bejtulai – Shkendija
Kire Ristevski – Ujpest
Gjoko Zajkov – Charleroi
Darko Velkovski – Rijeka
Kristijan Toshevski – Tirana

Arian Ademi – Dinamo
Enis Bardhi – Levante
Stefan Spirovski – AEK
Boban Nikolov – Fehérvár
Ezgjan Alioski – Leeds United
Tihomir Kostadinov – Ružomberok
Ferhan Hasani – HJK

Goran Pandev – Genoa
Ilija Nestorovski – Udinese
Aleksandar Trajkovski – Mallorca
Ivan Trichkovski – AEK
Vlatko Stojanovski – Chambly
Krste Velkoski – Sarajevo

Macedonia will host Kosovo on Thursday at 20.45 CET at the National Arena Toshe Proeski in Skopje. On Sunday travels to Estonia, while on the 14th come back to Skopje to host Georgia 20.45 CET at Toshe Proeski.