Our U18 national team will play two friendly games against Serbia in the following days and both will take place in two different towns in our northern neighbors.

photo by FFM: Macedonia in a game against Poland

First, Serbia will host the Macedonian counterparts in the town of Surdulica on the 15th, while the second match will take place in Niš on 17th.

The actual U18 is for players born in 2001 and later, thus those team will take part in the next years U19 qualifications. Coach Goran Stanikj summoned the following 19 players for these friendlies:

Matej Andov – Vardar
Marko Alchevski – Akademija Pandev 

Bozhidar Mitrevski – Vardar
Suad Jonuzi – La Charriere
Hristijan Stojanovski – Rabotnichki
Georgije Jankulov – Crvena Zvezda
Ivan Nikolov – Akademija Pandev 

Agon Elezi – Caen
Dimitar Todorovski – Rabotnichki
Jeton Dauti – St. Gallen
Ramin Alii – Shkendija
Bojan Dimovski – Vardar
Tarik Nikolovski – Olimpija 

David Ristovski – Makedonija GjP
Kushtrim Tairi – Shkendija
David Toshevski – Rabotnichki
Arbin Vosha – Makedonija GjP
Metodi Maksimov – Rabotnichki
Ersan Hajdari – Aarau 

Forward Djemal Ibishi from Vardar who recently also saw game time in the 1.MFL was also called up but he is not able to join the national team because of an injury. A totally new name is Tarik Nikolovski who lives in Slovenia and was before part of Slovenia’s youth national teams.