Our U17 national team from 25-29 of September will take part at the friendly tournament in Latvia and will face Russia, Finland and obviously the hosts.

photo by Paul Zammit Cutajar: The U17s on a match against Malta in August

This tournament is part of our preparations for the upcoming EURO qualifications next month in Skopje. Vujovikj’s team is seriously preparing as they first did a training camp in Dojran, than went on tour in Malta and are now on tournament in Latvia.

The tournament schedule:

Tuesday, 25th September at 15.00 CET
 Macedonia vs. Russia

Thursday, 27th September at 15.00 CET
Latvia vs. Macedonia

Saturday, 29th September at 11.00 CET
 Macedonia vs.  Finland

Here is the list of the 20 players that coach Mario Vujovikj called up for this tournament:

Marko Alchevski – Akademija Pandev
Aleksa Jordanov – 011 

Filip Kostovski – Nju Stars
Anatolij Petejchuk – Vardar
Besfort Arifi – MVV Maastricht
Ali Asani – Vardar
Aleksandar Gjurkovski – Vardar
Spase Terziev – Akademija Pandev
Neshat Murati – Shkendija 

Ivan Nikolov – Akademija Pandev
Filip Andonovski – Vardar
Dimitar Todorovski – Rabotnichki
Redon Kjamili – Shkendija
Luka Stankovski – Rabotnichki
Vlada Novevski – Vojvodina 

Sava Avramovski – OFK Beograd
Mario Kosteski – Rabotnichki
Behar Fetai – Nju Stars
Metodi Maksimov – Rabotnichki
Mario Ilievski – Septemvri 

Nikola Sekulov from Italian side Juventus also got an invitation to join the national team but he turned it down without giving any explanation.