Second win in a row for Macedonia after the Red Lions beat Slovenia 3:2 in a friendly game in Skopje. Both managers used this opportunity to test new players and also to give some playing time to seldomly used players as well. Slovenia was very close to opening the score in the 9th minute as
U21 national teams of Macedonia and Bulgaria have played a 1:1 draw in a friendly match today.
Many players originating from Macedonia were in action during the weekend with Kadrii having the most impressive performance.
National team manager Chedomir Janevski spoke about David Babunski and his performances with the U21 team. But, he is not well informed.
Adis Jahovic added his second goal in two games for Zürich, Stevica Ristic converted a penalty for Suwon, Agim Ibraimi and Darko Tasevski provided assists for their respective teams, while both Goran Pandev and Ivan Trichkovski sustained injuries and had to be substituted by Napoli and Club Brugge, respectively.
Ivan Trichkovski scored his first competitive goal for Club Brugge, Darko Tasevski netted an early goal for Ironi Kiryat Shmona, Mirko Ivanovski provided an assist for Astra, while Filip Ivanovski and Dimitrija Lazarevski reached the Kazakh Cup final with Astana.
Boban Babunski has announced 18-men squad for the upcoming friendly against Bulgaria.
The win against Serbia launched Macedonia to the 83rd place of the newest FIFA world ranking list, moving up 21 places.
Dime Jankulovski played his last career game as decided to retire, while Izet Hajrovic scored a beautiful free kick goal.
Debut calls for Adis Jahovikj, Dejan Blazhevski and Mite Cikarski, come back for Aleksandar Todorovski and Aleksandar Trajkovski; Janevski announced the squad that will face Slovenia in a friendly.