Ilija Najdoski
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1964-03-26) 26 March 1964 (age 60) | ||
Place of birth | Kruševo, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Youth career | |||
Pitu Guli | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1981–1982 | Pobeda[1] | 17 | (0) |
1984–1988 | Vardar | 101 | (0) |
1988–1992 | Red Star Belgrade | 114 | (7) |
1992–1994 | Real Valladolid[2][3] | 54 | (2) |
1994–1995 | Denizlispor[4] | 28 | (0) |
1995–1996 | CSKA Sofia | 10 | (0) |
1996–1997 | FC Sion | 4 | (0) |
Total | 328 | (9) | |
International career | |||
1990–1992 | Yugoslavia | 11 | (1) |
1993–1996 | Macedonia | 10 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Ilija Najdoski (Macedonian: Илија Најдоски; born 26 March 1964) is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back for Red Star Belgrade. He was part of the Red Star Belgrade team which won the 1990–91 European Cup.
Club career
Najdoski also played in Spain for Real Valladolid in Spain's La Liga and Denizlispor in Turkey's Süper Lig.
International career
Najdoski represented both Yugoslavia and Republic of Macedonia in international matches. Even after Macedonian independence, he was included in the Yugoslav squad for Euro 1992,[5] but the nation would be suspended due to the Yugoslav Wars.
Najdoski later played in the first ever official match of Macedonia, played on 13 October 1993, against Slovenia.[6] His final international was a March 1996 friendly match against Malta.[7]
Personal life
He is the father of Macedonian player Dino Najdoski.
Najdoski is an ethnic Aromanian.[8][better source needed]
References
- ^ "zerodic.com". Zerodic.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "NAJDOSKI". LFP. Archived from the original on 10 September 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2008.
- ^ "ILIJA NAJDOSSKI". TFF. Retrieved 25 October 2008.
- ^ "Pancev también renuncia a la Eurocopa". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 25 May 1992. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
- ^ Match report at EU-Football.info
- ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ Nedeljković, Jelena (15 August 2020). "Јелена Недељковић: Социолошко религијско посматрање феномена влашке магије (I)". Vidovdan (in Serbian).
External links
- Ilija Najdoski at National-Football-Teams.com
- Profile at Macedonian Football (in English)
- Ilija Najdoski at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- Rsssf.com
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