The Macedonian men's cadet national team was defeated by Moldova with 3: 1 (23:25, 25:21, 25:17, 25:18) in the first match of The Balkan Championship in Novi Sad. The main feature of our game was the inconsistent reception due to which we did not have the opportunity to organize clean actions.

And we attacked badly on a good reception, so the opponent knew how to use it, came back from the negative, was better, had more offensive solutions and achieved a significant victory, most likely to enter the semifinals regardless of the fact that the Macedonian volleyball players won the first set.

Macedonia will play with on Thursday Bulgaria, which is the first favorite in the group, and on Tuesday convincingly defeated Moldova.

There is a theory for a different epilogue, but in order to enter the fight for medals instead of the race for fifth to seventh place in the final ranking, the team of coach Vance Sanev should celebrate over the Bulgarians with three points, and then watch a set , or the point quotient.

In the other group of the Balkaniad are the hosts Serbia, Romania, Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina.