U15: Macedonia 6th at Torneo delle Nazioni

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 Slovenia
Romania Romania – Macedonia 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 Italy
Portugal Portugal – Macedonia 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 Italy – Ireland Ireland 1:2 (1:1)

3-4 place
Slovenia Slovenia – Austria Austria 0:0; 2:4 p.s.o.

5-6 place
Portugal Portugal – Macedonia Macedonia 4:0 (1:0)

7-8 place
Romania Romania – Czechia Czechia 0:0; 4:3 p.s.o.

9-10 place
UAE United Arab Emirates – Norway Norway 3:1 (1:0)

11-12 place
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia – Mexico 1:0 (1:0)

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