U21 team named for Ukraine and Australia tests

Macedonia U21 at a training earlier in the summerBlagoja Milevski, manager of the U21 team, announced his squad for the upcoming games against Ukraine and Australia.

There were not many changes to the U21 roster after the 3:0 loss to Iceland back in June. Guys like Dejan Iliev, Enis Bardhi, Daniel Avramovski and Hristijan Denkovski return from injuries, while Dorian Babunski and Filip Pivkovski were not called up this time. Milevski said Dorian and Filip are still without a club, so that was the reason for their omission. That means Dorian Babunski is no longer with the youth academy of Real Madrid. Furthermore, domestic based players like Vardar attacker Jasir Asani and Sileks defender Angelche Timovski were also missing from the squad. Those can be described as mild surprises.

The only new name on the list is Mevlan Murati, a right-back. He is currently on loan at Shkupi from Shkendija. He will compete with Filip Ristovski for playing time at that position.

Macedonia plays an U21 qualifier against Ukraine on September 5 before then facing Australia U21 in a friendly two days later. The priority is the Ukraine fixture, though. The team wants to prove that the Iceland result, a 3:0 loss, was a fluke and nothing more. We’ll see how the players respond.

Both games will take place at the “Petar Miloshevski” training center . The Macedonian federation made the necessary improvements there in order to meet UEFA standards for that training center to be allowed to host both youth national team qualifiers and friendlies in the future.

Complete Squad:

Dejan Iliev – Arsenal U21 England
Damjan Shishkovski – Rabotnichki Macedonia
Igor Aleksovski – Makedonija GjP Macedonia

Filip Ristovski – Metalurg Macedonia
Mevlan Murati – Shkupi Macedonia
Gjoko Zajkov – Charleroi Belgium
Darko Velkovski – Vardar Macedonia
Visar Musliu – Renova Macedonia
Leon Najdovski – Rabotnichki Macedonia
Besir Demiri – Shkendija Macedonia

David Babunski – Barcelona B Spain
Daniel Avramovski – OFK Beograd Serbia
Boban Nikolov – Vardar Macedonia
Enis Bardhi – Ujpest Hungary
Phil Petreski – Melbourne City Youth Australia
Burhan Mustafov – Pelister Macedonia
Nicola Kuleski – Sydney Youth Australia
Hristijan Denkovski – Groningen II Netherlands

Marjan Radeski – Shkendija Macedonia
Valmir Nafiu – APOEL Cyprus
Kire Markoski – Rabotnichki Macedonia
Demir Imeri – Turnovo Macedonia
Viktor Angelov – Metalurg Macedonia

From the 23 summoned players, 14 play domestically in Macedonia.

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