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"We will not surrender, but will fight until the last moment. We strive to qualify from the group and all the players can go home proudly. ”
Although North Macedonia did not qualify for the group as captain Pandev said, and announced it long before the start of the final match against the Netherlands, the players were still proud to go home. They are not losers, but the people who made the history of North Macedonian football.
For the first time in the history of the team, they rushed to the final round of the European Championship and completed the small goal of scoring in the European Championship... These are shining moments in the history of North Macedonian football. This former "national football sparring partner" has been fighting, and pride is greater than disappointment.
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Since the start of the European Championship, North Macedonia has been a team that has intrigued many fans. But there is a reminder not to show yourself as a "30-year old North Macedonian fan", because the first match of the North Macedonian national team was held in 1993, and it has been less than 30 years.
North Macedonia is ranked 62nd in the world, the lowest-ranked team in this European Championship. The Netherlands, Austria and Ukraine in the same group are only one place below North Macedonia in the world rankings combined. North Macedonia, one of the former Central Yugoslav Republics, officially declared its independence in 1991. In football, North Macedonia was once considered the lowest-ranked and least existential country in the former Yugoslav republic. But at this stage, although they still cannot compare with Croatia and Serbia, they can already stand shoulder to shoulder with Montenegro and Slovenia.
Before the start of this European Championship, North Macedonia had never reached the final round of the European Championship and the World Cup, but thanks to UEFA's new rules, North Macedonia successfully broke through in the Europa League play-offs and won a place. Many fans came to the scene to cheer for the team, and in the group match against Ukraine, the live camera cut to a North Macedonian fan whose drums had been broken, but the cheers continued.
North Macedonia did not win the group stage, but just over two months ago in the World Preliminary Tournament, North Macedonia just surprised once, they won 2-1 away to Germany, becoming the end of Germany's 18-game world preliminary tournament winning streak and 35 unbeaten games. Pandelph, who helped North Macedonia score a goal, basking in a family portrait after the game, sighed, "Football games sometimes perform miracles, and with courage you can reap the good." ”
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Chinese fans may not be unfamiliar with North Macedonia. Before 2019, the team was called "Macedonia" and was the European team that had played the most friendly matches with the national football team. Some people call it "national football sparring".
From 2004 to 2014, the two sides met 4 times, and the national football team won 3 and drew 1 to remain unbeaten. The most recent was in June 2014, when the national football team was preparing for the Asian Cup, when "Macedonia" was preparing for Euro 2016, and the two teams played two warm-up matches in Shenyang. In the first warm-up match, with goals from Yu Hanchao and Gaudí, the national football team won 2-0, which was also Perrin's first game in charge of the Chinese team. The score for the second warm-up match was 0-0.
From "Macedonia" to "North Macedonia", the country has experienced a lot. Chinese a summary of the country on the Internet, one sentence is "a country that has been forced to change its name." North Macedonia's name change has a lot to do with its geographical location, it is located in the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe, south of Greece, which won the European Championship, bordering Albania to the west, and Serbia to the north. Compared with the powerful, North Macedonia is only a small country, with an area of 25,000 square kilometers, equivalent to 1.5 Beijing, and the population counted in 2018 is less than 2.1 million.
North Macedonia changed its name precisely because of Greece. In the eyes of the Greeks, the name "Macedonia" belongs to Greece, representing their proud region of ancient Macedonia, which cannot be replaced by small neighbors. Due to the opposition of Greece, in international formal occasions, the name of "Macedonia" must be preceded by a prefix called "former Yugoslav Macedonia". North Macedonia has been eager to join the European Union, and in order to gain the support of EU member Greece, it eventually changed its name in 2019.
But over one mountain, there was another. Even after changing the country's name, Bulgaria, north of North Macedonia, opposed its accession to the European Union because it consistently refused to recognize the existence of the "Macedonian nation" and the "Macedonian language." Bulgarians believe that the so-called Macedonian nation actually belongs to the Bulgarian nation, and the language is only a dialect of Bulgarian. So to this day, North Macedonia's long-cherished accession process has not yet achieved a substantive breakthrough.
Now, at least this time, North Macedonia can proudly look up in front of Greece and Bulgaria, after all, the two neighbors can only watch the European Cup at home at this time.
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From the "national football sparring" to the new european championship, mentioning the first heroes, many fans will immediately think of Pendev. While his peers were already lying flat, the 37-year-old was still running in the European Championship. Although North Macedonia's strength is not optimistic, fans around the world still see a team that is tenacious and a team that is fully committed.
In the first match between North Macedonia and Austria, Pendev scored his first goal in the history of the European Championship, making him the second oldest goal breaker in the history of the European Championship. Against Ukraine, Pendev used his personal experience and skill to spell out a penalty in the second half and handed the penalty to teammate Aliuski, who scored the goal. Ukrainian coach Shevchenko paid tribute to north Macedonia after the match and also embraced Pandev emotionally. The 44-year-old Shevchenko is ac Milan star, while Pendev is an Inter legend who has won the treble with the team.
From the age of 17 to 37, Pendev played for the country for 20 years, making 122 appearances and scoring 38 goals. This match against the Netherlands was the last match of his career. In the 67th minute of the game, Pendev took the captain's armband to replace the field, and all the players came over and hugged them one by one. Next, he will concentrate on running his own Pendoff Academy club with Penderv. The club currently has 13 youth teams of different ages, with the first team playing in the First Division of North Macedonia, and the current international Radski is also from here.
In 2015, North Macedonia was still ranked 162nd in the world, 80 places behind the national football team at that time. After the current head coach Anglovsky took office, he immediately bought a ticket to find Pendev, who was not in the national team at the time, and persuaded him to return to the national team, and then in the non-stop campaign, North Macedonia's world ranking improved by 100 places. Bidding farewell to the national team, Pandev also said, "I hope that this generation of North Macedonian footballers can realize the ultimate dream of entering the World Cup."
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Going to the World Cup is also the ultimate dream of North Macedonia. In addition to Pendev, the players who have attracted much attention in Macedonia include Napoli's Elmas, Levante midfielder Bardi, Leeds United defender Alioski, and some internationals play in the second tier of Ligue 2 and La Liga. For example, goalkeeper Dimitreevsky played for Vallecano and played against Wu Lei's Spaniard many times.
Although North Macedonia did not qualify for the group as desired, the players can still be proud to go home. Pendev took off his national team shirt, but North Macedonia has not stopped fighting.
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