From 15-21 January our U16 national team took part at 21st Mercedes-Benz Aegean Cup in Turkey.

photo by Sportmedia: the U16s at the Aegean Cup

Our players had a very disappointing results. They lost all three games in a group stage against Albania, South Korea and Ukraine and they were also defeated in the match for the 7th place against Kosovo. These aren’t good news for the Coach Dragi Kanatlarovski and our football federation because this national team will took part in the U17 EURO qualifiers this autumn.

Unfortunately we couldn’t find any information at all about this tournament on the FFM’s web site. Turkey beat South Korea 2:1 in the final match and won the tournament.

Group A

Tanzania – Ireland 0:1
Turkey – Kosovo 1:0

Ireland – Turkey 0:1
Kosovo – Tanzania 2:4

Ireland – Kosovo 4:0
Turkey – Tanzania 2:2

1. Turkey 3 2 1 0 4:2 7
2. Ireland 3 2 0 1 5:1 6
3. Tanzania 3 1 1 1 6:5 4
3. Kosovo 3 0 0 3 2:9 0

Group B

Ukraine – South Korea 0:3

15.01.2020
Macedonia – Albania 0:1 (0:0)
Goals: 80′ Çereni
Macedonia: / Coach: Dragi Kanatlarovski
Albania: Simoni, Halili, Çela, Stafa, Pano, Beluli, Neziri, Bajraktari, Çereni, Deda, Blakqori. Also played: Selimi, Kaçanoli, Kote, Miftari, Tahiri. Coach: Elvin Beqiri

17.01.2020
South Korea – Macedonia 3:1 (1:1)
Goals: 30′ Lee Soo-min, 50′ Hu Dong-min, X’ Kim Do-hyun – 38′ Marko Ristov
South Korea: Park Man-ho, Jang Seok-hwan (Lee Dong-hyun), Kim Ji-soo, Kim Rae-woo, Hu Dong-min (Lee Seok-hwan), Song Hui (Kang Sang-yun), Jang Ha-min (Lee Kyu-dong), Jo Young-kwang (Park gyeom), Kim Kwang-won (Kim Do-hyun), Lee Ho-yeon (Kim Jin-yeop), Lee Soo-min. Coach: Song Kyung-seop
Macedonia: / Coach: Dragi Kanatlarovski

Albania – Ukraine 1:0

19.01.2020
Macedonia – Ukraine 0:1 (0:0)
Goals: 68′ Slyubik
Macedonia: / Coach: Dragi Kanatlarovski
Ukraine: Gereta, Rusyak (60′ Sitnikov), Matviyev (3′ Slyubik), Tymoshenko (46′ Kitela), Korenkov (60′ Sologub), Lufarenko (46′ Pochapsky), Fedor, Slavov, Dobriansky, Varfolomeev (46′ Yarmolyuk), Melnychuk. Coach: Sergiy Nagornyak

South Korea – Albania 2:0

1. South Korea 3 3 0 0 8:1 9
2. Albania 3 2 0 1 2:2 6
3. Ukraine 3 1 0 2 1:4 3
4. Macedonia 3 0 0 3 1:5 0

Final
South Korea – Turkey 1:2

3rd place match
Ireland – Albania 3:0

5th place match
Tanzania – Ukraine 1:0

7th place match
Macedonia – Kosovo 2:2 (4:6 p.s.o.)
Goals: 60′ Igor Janevski, X’ – X’, X’ Hoti
Macedonia: Vasilev, Zekjiri, Angelov, Gjorgiev, Stojanovski, Stoilov, Ristov, Mitev, Mat. Sofijanovski, Mar. Sofijanovski, Poposki. Bench: Tasev, Pavleski, Janevski, Bukјi, Elezi, Hamza, Gudjufi, Ljushev, Talevski, Ibraimi. Coach: Dragi Kanatlarovski
Kosovo: / Coach: Besnik Kollari

This is the list of the players that were called up for this tournament

Vasko Vasilev – Crvena zvezda
Stefan Tasev – Vardar

Blend Zekjiri – Rabotnichki
Matej Angelov – Rabotnichki
Matej Gjorgiev – Bregalnica
Georg Stojanovski – Vardar
Mirche Stoilov – Akademija Pandev
Marko Ristov – Rabotnichki
Mite Mitev – Akademija Pandev
Mateo Sofijanovski – Nju Stars
Marko Sofijanovski – Nju Stars
Borjan Poposki – Rabotnichki
Nikola Pavleski – Vardar
Igor Janevski – Vardar
Enis Bukji – Shkupi
Dashmir Elezi – Shkendija
Memetriza Hamza – Shkendija
Besart Gudjufi – Vardar
David Ljushev – Vardar
Mihail Talevski – Rabotnichki