Round 24 from the Macedonian first football league was played this round and was marked with the biggest Macedonian derby between the old rivals Pelister and Vardar. Besides the derby, this round will be also rememberd by the four draws on the five played matches, where only Turnovo celebrated a win over Sileks.
Fri/Sat internationals performances
Five internationals scored this Friday and Saturday. Starting with Goran Pandev who scored the first goal in Lazio’s win over Roma in the derby della capitale. Ilco Naumoski scored for Mattersburg in a very important win, but got an injury. Filip Ivanovski scored again in Poland for Polonia, Zoran Zlatkovski scored for Vihren in Bulgaria,
Macedonian 2nd League – Round 21
Sloga Jugomagnat kept the first position with the home win over Novaci, while Teteks beat Belasica in the derby of the round with 2:0 after which Belasica lost the chances for direct promotion and now can only hope to gain a place into the play-offs. Instead, Lokomotiva with the away win in Gevgelija over Kozuf,
Many candidates for new Macedonian coach
Cedomir Janevski, Nikola Ilievski, Mirsad Jonuz, Bosko Gjurovski, Gjoko Hadzievski, Vujadin Stanojkovik, Boban Babunski, Artim Sakiri, Dragoljub Bekvalac, Branko Ivanković, Ljubiša Tumbaković, Dimitar Penev… are just part of the names mentioned as the probable new Macedonian national team coach.
Mid-week internationals performances
The Asian Champions League came to the middle of the Group stage tournament as all four Macedonians that are participating have good chances to advance into the nest round. Perica Stanceski and Mario Gjurovski faced each other in a 4:4 thriller match in the Serbian league, while Zlatko Tanevski joined Filip Ivanovski, Vlade Lazarevski and
Cup semi-final 1st leg
Rabotnicki and Makedonija Gjorce Petrov secured wins over their visiting rivals in the first leg of the cup semi-final matches. Rabotnicki won over Shkendija with 3:1, while Makedonija defeated Milano with 2:0.
Macedonia 3 places down on the FIFA ranking list
Macedonia dropped three positions and lost 18 points because of the 4:0 defeat away to Netherlands. On the FIFA ranking list for April, Macedonia is on the 64th place, the worst since October 2007 when Macedonia was on the 75th position.
Katanec lost the control over the team
After the resignation of Srečko Katanec and his statements where he claims that he resigned because of the ruined atmosphere and bad discipline in the team, the players gave their reactions in which they say that Katanec lost the control of the team and he tried to make conflicts.
Sun/Mon internationals performances
Artim Sakiri with two goals led his Azeri team Qarabagh to a 4:2 win over Turan Tovuz and made himself the man of the match. Stevica Ristić’s and Slavco Georgievski’s duel in South Korea ended with an 1:1 draw, while Gjoko Hadzievski who leads FK Baku eventually gave up the top of the table in
Srecko Katanec resigns
Srečko Katanec is no longer Macedonian national team coach! Following the 4-0 defeat to Netherlands, Srečko's contract with FFM got annuled and together with his coaching staff they will not lead Macedonia anymore.