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