The Macedonian U15 national team finished 6th at the 19th Torneo delle Nazioni Città di Gradisca d’Isonzo international tournament in Italy, Austria and Slovenia.
photo by Torneo delle Nazioni: The young Lynx before the Portugal match
In our last two games at this tournament Macedonia defeated Romania after penalty shoot-out while in the match for the fifth place we suffered a heavy loss against Portugal. Previously, Macedonia finished 2nd in its group.
Ireland won the tournament with a 2:1 win over Italy in the final.
Unfortunately the Football Federation of Macedonia didn’t publish a single word about our participation at this tournament and therefore we are unable to provide our readers with complete data on the performances of our national team.
Placement matches:
April 29th, Tolmin, Slovenia
Romania –
Macedonia 1:1 (0:1); 2:5 p.s.o.
Goals: 36′ Alexandru Bota – 23′ Stefan Stamatoski
Romania: Ciobanu, Nițu (53′ Alexe), Vechiu, Moisă, Sindilă, Drăghici (53′ Erdei), Miu, Bota (53′ Vasile), Popescu, Preda (53′ Ninaci), Luncașu (66′ Calițoiu). Coach: Victor Ene
Macedonia: Trajkov, Jevtoski, Stoilov, Bajrami, Stamatoski, Angelevski, Kesikj, Damjanovski, Brankovski, Grasheski, Osmani. Coach: Rade Karanfiloski
May 1st, Stadio Comunale in Rivignano, Italy
Portugal –
Macedonia 4:0 (1:0)
Goals: 35′ Alejandro Rodriguez, 53′ Tomás Soares, 63′ Steven Manuel, 70+3 Guilherme Castro
Portugal: Cunha, Banjaqui (48′ Santos), Gomes (48′ Neto), Quintas, Abreu (48′ Manuel), Varela (39′ Peixoto), Coxi, Sá, Rodriguez (61′ Castro), Pereira (48′ T.Soares), S.Soares (61′ Kryvonosyuk). Coach: Pedro Silva
Macedonia: Trajkovski, Fejzulovski (56′ Taleski), Stoilov, Stamatoski (65′ Jevtoski), Damjanovski (65′ Karanfiloski), Kesikj, Angelevski (56′ Zhuta), Bajrami, Brankovski (56′ Markovski), Osmani (47′ Sivakov), Bojović-Zaev (36′ Ramadani). Coach: Rade Karanfiloski
Final
Italy –
Ireland 1:2 (1:1)
3-4 place
Slovenia –
Austria 0:0; 2:4 p.s.o.
5-6 place
Portugal –
Macedonia 4:0 (1:0)
7-8 place
Romania –
Czechia 0:0; 4:3 p.s.o.
9-10 place
United Arab Emirates –
Norway 3:1 (1:0)
11-12 place
Saudi Arabia –
Mexico 1:0 (1:0)