2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship (as part of Olympic Games qualifications) Qualifications Tournament Group 8 M W D L GD P Croatia 8 6 2 0 25:7 20 play-off (won) Yugoslavia 8 5 2 1 29:10 17 play-off (lost) Ireland 8 4 2 2 13:12 14 Malta 8 1 0
Moldovan squad announced
The former Russian winger Igor Ivanovich Dobrovolskiy, who at the moment is national team coach of Moldova, announced their 20-players squad lead by the 27-years-old Spartak Moskva player Serghei Covalciuc who on 11th of Februari in Antalya (Turkey) will face Macedonia.
U21 squad for the friendly against Croatia
Mirsad Jonuz, the coach of the Macedonian U21 national team, named the squad for the U21 friendly match against Croatia that will be played in Kostrena, Rijeka on 11/02/2009.
Macedonian squad for friendly against Moldova
Srečko Katanec, the coach of the national football team of Macedonia, announced the squad of 19 players for the friendly match against Moldova that will be played in Antalya, Turkey on 11th February. Ognenovski, Sikov and Demiri will be given then chance in the team.
Miko Popovic takes over Vardar
Famous Serbian businessman represented by his company from Malta "Planet M" takes over Macedonian football team Vardar. Because of the crisis that the most famous Macedonian football club fell in, FK Vardar will have the fifth president in a period of one year.
Macedonia: The “Almost” Nation
If you asked any footballing pundit in the mid 90’s after the break-up of Yugoslavia which one of the newly formed nations would go on and be competitive on the football pitch, the answer no doubt would’ve been both Serbia and Croatia. However, there would’ve been a tasty question mark besides the small landlocked nation
Weekend internationals performances
Goran Popov and his Heerenveen are doing excellent in Holland, Goran Pandev had a bad day in Italy, Igor Mitreski had his first match for his new club in Belgium, Boban Grncarov standard as always, while Dejan Blazevski was the only one who managed to score. Italy, Serie A, Lazio – Cagliari 1:4 Goran Pandev
Pandev scores in the Coppa Italia
Goran Pandev scored again for Lazio but this time in the Coppa Italia against Torino. His entrance turned the score around as Lazio was losing 0:1 before he came in.
Transfers and rumors roundup
Robert Petrov is about to sign with Cherno More from Varna, Oliver Peev is on trials with BSC Young Boys, while Ostoja Stjepanović could be joining the Macedonians in Austrian SV Mattersburg.
Ben Kantarovski proud of his Macedonian heritage
Ben Kantarovski, the so called “whiz-kid”, sure made his mark in the Australian football being the youngest player ever to sign a contract in the league at age of 15 and youngest A-League player ever at age of 16. MacedonianFootball.com made a short interview with him on the day he turns 17.