Mirsad Jonuz has announced the squad for the following qualifiers against Scotland and Norway in September. The squad consists of 23 players, amongst who Besart Ibraimi and Edin Nuredinoski are new names.

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Spanish national team coach, Vicente del Bosque González, announced the 21-players-squad for the friendly against Macedonia next week. Spain will arrive with their strongest team, with Casillas, Torres, Villa, Puyol, Xavi etc, except Barça’s midfielder Andrés Iniesta, Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos and Villareal’s Marcos Senna who weren’t called up due to several raesons.

Because there was no football activity during the summer, there were no changes on the FIFA ranking list and Macedonia kept the 53rd position with 589 points.

Mirsad Jonuz, the coach of the Macedonian national team announced the squad for the friendly match against European champions Spain. The new name in the squad is Agim Ibraimi, the forward from the U21 national team and member of Slovenian club Olimpija Ljubljana.

Macedonia will host European champions Spain on the renovated National arena Philip II of Macedon on 12th August, as part of the 100-years anniversary of football in Macedonia.

Macedonia moves up 11 positions on the FIFA ranking list and is now placed on the 53rd position for July 2009. The progress came after the draw against Norway and the win over Iceland in the World Cup 2010 qualifications last month.

U17 and U19 national teams have played friendly matches with their counterparts from Albania. U19 were hosts, while U17 visited Albania. Both first matches ended in a draw.

With the goals of Aco Stojkov and Filip Ivanovski, Macedonia beat Iceland with 2:0 and finally won after 5 games without a win. The chances for the second place in the Group 9 are still good, but now Macedonia must beat Scotland and Norway, both away in September.