National team manager Chedomir Janevski has announced the squad for upcoming qualifiers against Croatia and Serbia at home.

Chedomir Janevski has decided to stick with most of the players that were called up for the previous two qualifiers in September.  The lone new player on the list is defender Bojan Markoski, a player who Janevski knows well since he was his manager while both were at Enosis Neon Paralimni in Cyprus.  Markoski is a tall central defender who is known to be very strong and is nicknamed ‘The Beast’ in Cyprus for his uncompromising style in defense.  He was called up once to the Macedonian ‘B’ national team which took part in a friendly, unofficial tournament in Iran.  Bojan takes the place of Daniel Mojsov who is currently not playing for Serbian side Vojvodina due to a contract dispute.

Basically, Janevski called up two players at every position, except the keeper position where he summoned three goalkeepers for a total of 23 players.  Janevski also decided to add some youth to the squad this time with the return of Stefan Spirovski, the 22-year-old midfielder who originally made his senior national team debut under John Toshack.  Vardar’s youngster Dragan Gjorgiev kept his place on the team as Spirovski and Gjorgiev are also the lone domestic based players on the squad.  Stefan Ristovski, meanwhile, was also included in the squad after withdrawing from last month’s two qualifiers due to an injury.

Here is the complete list.

Martin Bogatinov – Karpaty, Ukraine
Tome Pachovski – Mechelen, Belgium
Kristijan Naumovski – Dinamo Bucureşti, Romania

Nikolche Noveski – Mainz 05, Germany
Goran Popov – West Bromwich Albion, England
Boban Grncharov – Botev Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Vanche Shikov – Volyn, Ukraine
Daniel Georgievski – Steaua Bucureşti, Romania
Bojan Markoski – Apollon Limassol, Cyprus
Stefan Ristovski – Bari, Italy
Aleksandar Lazevski – Partizan, Serbia

Veliche Shumulikoski – Tianjin Teda, China
Muhamed Demiri – Thun, Switzerland
Nikola Gligorov – Alki Larnaka, Cyprus
Stefan Spirovski – Rabotnichki
Darko Tasevski – Ironi Kiryat Shmona, Israel

Goran Pandev – Napoli, Italy
Ivan Trichkovski – Club Brugge, Belgium
Ferhan Hasani – Wolfsburg, Germany
Mirko Ivanovski – Astra Ploieşti, Romania
Stevica Ristic – Suwon, South Korea
Agim Ibraimi – Maribor, Slovenia
Dragan Gjorgiev – Vardar

Macedonia plays against Croatia on the 12th of October at 20.30 CET and against Serbia four days later at the same time. Both matches will be played on the National Arena Philip II of Macedon in Skopje.