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Ilija Najdoski

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Ilija Najdoski
Personal information
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

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Najdoski also played in Spain for Real Valladolid in Spain's La Liga and Denizlispor in Turkey's Süper Lig.

International career

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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

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He is the father of Macedonian player Dino Najdoski.

Najdoski is an ethnic Aromanian.[8][better source needed]

References

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  1. ^ "zerodic.com". Zerodic.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
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  3. ^ "NAJDOSKI". LFP. Archived from the original on 10 September 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2008.
  4. ^ "ILIJA NAJDOSSKI". TFF. Retrieved 25 October 2008.
  5. ^ "Pancev también renuncia a la Eurocopa". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 25 May 1992. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  6. ^ Match report at EU-Football.info
  7. ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  8. ^ Nedeljković, Jelena (15 August 2020). "Јелена Недељковић: Социолошко религијско посматрање феномена влашке магије (I)". Vidovdan (in Serbian).
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