Both of our youth national teams were defeated in Thursday’s friendlies as a part of the preparations for the upcoming qualifications this fall.

photo by BFS: Bulgaria and Macedonia line-up for the anthems

Macedonia U19 lost 0:1 against Bulgaria in Simitli with a criminal refereeing by the Bulgarian referee who sent off two of our players, while our U17 national team was defeated 2:0 by Hungary in Skopje.

Struma stadium in Simitli, Bulgaria
Bulgaria U19 – Macedonia U19 1:0 (1:0)
10′ Vladimir Nikolov
Bulgaria: Ivan Dichevski, Hristiyan Petrov, Aleksandar Makris, Aleksandar Todorov, Vladimir Nikolov, Patrik-Gabriel Galchev, Martin Atanasov, Kristian Varbanov, Filip Krastev, Emanuel Mirchev, Yumit Mustafa.
Macedonia: no info

Petar Miloshevski stadium in Skopje
Macedonia U17 – Hungary U17 0:2 (0:1)
16′ Mátyás Kovács, 83′ Máté Sós
Macedonia: 12. Dushan Gerasimovski; 3. Kristijan Taseski, 5. Filip Gjorgoski, 6. Borche Gogov (80′ 15. Hristijan Nikolovski), 8. Oktaj Rakipi (71′ 4. Hristijan Georgievski), 11. Filip Trpchevski (71′ 10. Martin Talakov), 13. Abdula Hasani (57′ 2. Samet Redjepi), 14. Andrej Stojchevski (46′ 16. Albin Limani), 17. Vane Krstevski (46′ 7. Rezart Kokolari), 18. Alban Taipi, 19. Vasko Gligorov (46′ 9. Dashmir Elezi).
Hungary: 1. Zsombor Senkó (45′ 12. Marsel Kovács), 4. Kevin Török, 5. János Mayer, 6. Dominik Sztojka (65′ 16. Botond Bartha), 7. Mátyás Kovács, 10. Botond Farkas (65′ 20. Máté Sós), 13. Mark Fuzku, 15. Attila Szujó (30′ 3. Mark Halembai), 17. Donát Varga (65′ 14. Zsombor Puskás), 18. Tamás Kispál (79′ 8. Artúr Horváth), 21. Gergő Vámos (45′ 9. Dániel Németh).