Macedonia stayed on the 64th position on the FIFA ranking list for May 2009 because there was no activity in the last month. The 64th place is the worst since October 2007 when Macedonia was on the 75th position.
Macedonian internationals performances
Velice Sumulikoski finished this season with Ipswich failing to gain promotion or a place into the play-offs. Goran Popov and Heerenveen will fight in the last round for avoiding the European competition play-offs. That will happen only if they catch PSV Eindhoven who has two points advantage. In Bulgaria, Robert Petrov beat Zoran Zlatkovski away,
Macedonian First League – Round 29
Interesting matches were played in 29th round of the Macedonian first league this weekend when all matches ended with home win. Milano defeated Vardar in the battle for Europe and Pobeda with an overturn defeated Pelister in the battle for avoiding relegation in
Macedonian 2nd League – Round 26
The 26th round of the Macedonian 2nd league didn’t bring any bigger changes on the table. Interesting it is that there was not even one game that ended with splitting the points, there was a winner on every game. Most interesting was at Avtokomanda where Skopje lost with 3:2 to Shkendija 79 from Tetovo. In
Ivankovic officially applied for coach
Famous Croatian coach Branko Ivanković has officially applied for the position of a coach of the Macedonian national team, after Katanec resigned recently. In his career, Ivanković has been coaching the national team of Iran and Dinamo Zagreb and has been the assistant of Ćiro Blaević in the Croatian national team, amongst other positions of
Macedonian First League – Round 28
The win for Sileks away to Vardar and the three draws marked the 28th round of the Macedonian first league. Rabotnicki defeated Milano, Turnovo held Renova and the points were also shared on the matches between the teams fighting against relegation.
Macedonian 2nd League – Round 25
Bregalnica Stip is rapidly going away from the promotion zone. Today they were outplayed by Shkendija 79 in Tetovo, a team that will surely gain at least a play-off place. Teteks and Sloga Jugomagnat also won, so there is no change on the top three positions. Interesting will be the battle for the last place
Weekend internationals performances
Seven goals were scored this weekend by the Macedonian internationals. The best was Riste Naumov who scored twice and saved a point to Viktoria from Žižkov. Also goal scorers were Nikolce Noveski in Germany, Ilco Naumoski in Austria, Jovan Kostovski in Greece, Dragi Kocev in Bulgaria and Slavco Georgievski in South Korea. Nederim Nedzipi finally
Lothar “Matthäuski” perhaps?
In recent weeks, the circus that is the Macedonian Football Federation has been slowly but surely cutting down a list of candidates for the vacant NT Coaching position recently made vacant by Srečko Katanec’s well documented resignation. As per usual, there were many submissions made by in-adequately qualified Macedonian candidates. As well as this, there
Macedonian First League – Round 27
A beautiful Sunday afternoon brought many surprising results in the 27th round of the first league. Vardar defeated Rabotnicki, Pelister stole a point from Makedonija, Metalurg defeated Napredok, while Pobeda and Turnovo returned with full spoils from their trips to Kratovo and Kumanovo, respectively.