2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship Qualifications Tournament Group 7 M W D L GD P Turkey 8 7 1 0 18:5 22 play-off (lost) Portugal 8 6 0 2 20:11 18 play-off (won) England 8 3 2 3 14:10 11 Slovakia 8 2 0 6 9:16 6 Macedonia 8
Friendly matches roundup
Macedonian clubs have been very active in the winter preparations so far. In between the trainings, several clubs have played friendly matches and in probably the most interesting one, reigning champions Rabotnicki defeated current leaders Makedonija.
Beginning of the preparations in Antalya
Football clubs Rabotnicki, Makedonija GjP and Metalurg are making the final preparations before leaving on two-weeks preparations in sunny Antalya, Turkey.
EURO U21 2002 Qual’s
2002 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship Qualifications Tournament Group 4 M W D L GD P Turkey 10 7 2 1 19:6 23 play-off (lost) Sweden 10 5 4 1 19:6 19 play-off (lost) Slovakia 10 4 4 2 13:7 16 Moldova 10 2 3 5 6:13 9 Azerbaijan 10 2 3 5 4:17 9
EURO U21 2000 Qual’s
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