Bulgarian national team coach Ivaylo Petev summoned 24 playes for the road friendly against Macedonia among which 7 are debutants.

Bulgaria will first travel to Portugal to face their national team in a friendly on March 25 and then will head back to the Balkans to play with Macedonia on the 29th. For that occasion Petev decided to try some new thing by calling Makendzhiev, Bozhikov, Zehirov, Nedyalkov, Karabelyov, Marcelinho and Tasev who don’t have any senior national team appearance so far. 31-year-old Marcelinho is actually a former Brazilian U20 national team player who spent the last 5 years playing in Bulgaria and because of that qualifies to represent this country.

Standard players like Valeryi Bozhinov, Georgi Milanov and Stanislav Manolev weren’t summoned.

Vladislav Stoyanov – Ludogorets
Bozhidar Mitrev – Sheriff
Blagoy Makendzhiev – Beroe

Georgi Terziev – Ludogorets
Aleksandar Aleksandrov – Levski
Nikolay Bodurov – Midtjylland
Vasil Bozhikov – Kasımpaşa
Strahil Popov – Kasımpaşa
Zhivko Milanov – APOEL
Atanas Zehirov – Beroe
Anton Nedyalkov – Litex

Svetoslav Dyakov – Ludogorets
Simeon Slavchev – Apollon
Kristiyan Malinov – Litex Lovech
Ivaylo Chochev – Palermo
Mihail Aleksandrov – Legia
Aleksandar Tonev – Frosinone
Todor Nedelev – Botev
Yanis Karabelyov – Slavia
Marcelo Nascimento da Costa “Marcelinho” – Ludogorets

Spas Delev – Beroe
Toni Tasev – Pirin
Ivelin Popov – Spartak
Dimitar Rangelov – Konyaspor