Samir Fazli, Sevdailj Selmani and Antonio Stankov have canceled their appearance for the U21 national team against England and Portugal because of injuries.

The problems for the coach Boban Babunski started yesterday when midfielders Sevdailj Selmani from Bayer Leverkusen and Antonio Stankov from Dutch club Roda reported that they are injured and are unable to take part in the preparations for the U21 qualifying matches against England and Portugal. Today, Samir Fazli from  Heerenveen joined the list of injured players, so the Macedonian U21 national team have no only 19 players available as the coach Babunski announced that there will be no additional players called up.

The current squad is:

Goalkeepers:
Kristijan Naumovski – Rabotnicki
Marko Jovanovski – Teteks

Defenders:
Aleksandar Lazevski – Teleoptik, Serbia
Daniel Georgievski – Međimurje Čakovec, Croatia
Betim Aliu – KuPS, Finland
Sedat Berisa – Sloga
Goran Siljanovski – Makedonija GjP
Jani Urdinov – Roda, Netherlands
Goran Bogdanovik – Metalurg
Vladimir Dimitrovski – Metalurg

Midfielders:
Dragan Stojkov – Napredak Kruševac, Serbia
Marko Kostencovski – Vardar
Stefan Spirovski – Pelister
Muarem Muarem – Rabotnicki

Strikers:
Agim Ibraimi – Olimpija, Slovenia
Mirko Ivanovski – Makedonija GjP
Filip Petrov – Vardar
Ilija Nestorovski – Pobeda
Aleksandar Stankov – Roda, Netherlands

Macedonia U21 will travel to Coventry where they will play against England U21 on 9th October. On 13th October, Macedonia will host Portugal U21 in Prilep.