The handball players play for the World Cup, with a victory over the Czech Republic to send Lazarov and Mirkulovski in national team retirement
The handball national team of Macedonia tonight (19:7.000) in front of 2023 fans against the Czech Republic in SC "Boris Trajkovski" plays the return match for the XNUMX World Cup.
The handball players have an active result, 24:24, although they could have welcomed tonight's match with a few positive goals.
Apart from the fact that this is a decisive match for the World Cup in Poland and Sweden, the duel against the Czech Republic will be the last in the national team jersey for two handball legends, Kiril Lazarov and Filip Mirkulovski. Lazarov and Mirkulovski are an indispensable part of the greatest successes of the Macedonian national team in the last 15 years and they want to say goodbye to the national team jersey with a victory.
- This is my last match in the national team, there will be a lot of emotions, but we are professionals. We will try to have a happy ending, to win and qualify for the World Cup. We played a good match in the Czech Republic, although we missed a 6-7 goal advantage, that should not have happened to us, but the opponent showed character. We know that this is a quality national team, we know what awaits us here on Sunday and with the help of 7.000 fans to secure a place in the World Cup - said Mirkulovski.
A motive plus for the handball players before the duel with the Czech Republic is that four of the five matches that were played in Skopje ended with a triumph of Macedonia, and only one match ended without a winner in 1995.
In the last two matches in Skopje, Macedonia achieved convincing victories of 33:20 in the qualifications for the European Championship 2017 and of 34:27 in the qualifying round for the WC 2017.