The Macedonian U21 national team is traveling to Antalya, Turkey, from March 17 to 26 for training with new coach Goran Stanić. In the Turkish resort, The players that the new head coach of the national team will count on will play two friendly matches, the first against Belarus, and then against Azerbaijan.
We will face Belarus on March 21st starting at 2:00 PM, and four days later, on March 25th, we will play against Azerbaijan at 6:00 PM.
Coach Goran Stanić has decided to call up the following players for the preparations and friendly matches in Turkey:
GOALKEEPERS:
Vasko Vasilev – Gostivar
Ljupce Dzekov – Sileks
Slave Vrgov – A.P. Brera
DEFENSE:
David Dailoski – Venlo, Netherlands
Daniel Markovski – Jönköping, Sweden
Andrej Arizankoski – A.P. Brera
Anes Melici – Shkendija
Marko Stojilevski – A.P. Brera
Gjorge Dzekov – Sileks
Benan Hamidovic – Magdeburg, Germany
Andrej Velkov – A.P. Brera
Numan Ajetovic – Shkupi
MIDDLE ROW:
Matej Angelov – Workers
Gjorgji Doshev – Macedonia G.P.
Adrian Zendelovski – Olympic, Sweden
Teodor Nikolovski – Workers
Martin Gjorgievski – A.P. Brera
Shaban Zenku – Struga Trim Ljum
ATTACK:
Dimitar Danev – Workers
Dimitar Trajkov – Dugo Polje, Croatia
Nikola Velichkovski – September, Bulgaria
Mihail Talevski – Vardar
Besmir Daci – Shkupi
Kire Stojanov – Belasica
Nikola Manojlov – Workers
Goran Stanic – Macedonia U21 national team coach;
"We will use our first joint meeting to familiarize the players with the working methods, as well as what will be required of them, both in training and in the matches themselves."
Players from our championship who have the most minutes in their clubs have been invited. We have also invited several players from abroad who we believe can raise the quality of our national team. Certain players who were not invited to this meeting, but are potential national team candidates, will get the opportunity at the next meeting at the end of May.
I expect that the ideas that we as the coaching staff have will be quickly understood by the players themselves and effectively implemented on the pitch. We will do our best to be as prepared as possible for the European Championship qualifiers, which will start in September.
"As part of these preparations, we will play two matches against Belarus and Azerbaijan. In both matches, the focus will be on our game. I hope that all the tactical ideas that we will work on during the preparations will be implemented on the field."
We start the qualifiers for the 2027 European Championship in Albania and Serbia at the beginning of September. In the first round, we play against Poland away. In the second round, we welcome the strong Italian national team at home.
The gathering of the Macedonian U-21 national team will be on March 16th, at Hotel Park, Skopje at 6:30 PM.
