Ryan Stack available versus Bulgaria

Ryan Stack

13-08-2006 00:16

American with Macedonian passport [b]Ryan Stack[/b] arrived in Skopje and joined their National team. Most likely he will play against [b]Bulgaria[/b] this coming Monday and Tuesday when National teams of both countries will meet again. [b]Macedonia[/b] and [b]Bulgaria[/b] are preparing for qualifications for EURO 2007 which will start on August 31. [b]Macedonia[/b] is in group with [b]Portugal, Bosnaand Herzegovina[/b] and [b] Israel[/b]. [b]Ryan Stack[/b] missed both games in Sofia when Bulgaria won back to back the games in the beginning of this week. However the coach [b]Jordancho Davitkov[/b] will try to make sure [b]Ryan Stack[/b] will get some minutes in the games in Skopje. This will be the biggest task of the coach, how to involve with the best possible way 31 years old center in his team. [b]Ryan Stack[/b] spent quite few seasons with greek [b] Aris[/b] but in the offseason he moved to Athens in [b] Olimpiacos[/b]. [b]Darko Sokolov[/b] is the only missing player from practices of Macedonia as he went to Sarajevo on try out in Bosna. [b]Pero Antic[/b] had a collision with [b]Lukoil Academic[/b] power forward in one of the latest practices and injured his knee. [b]Vrbica Stefanov[/b] and [b]Todor Gecevski[/b] also have small complaints but all three players will be available for the first match against [b]Bulgaria[/b] on Monday. After coming back from Skopje [b]Bulgaria[/b] will face [b]Denmark[/b] in Universiada Hall in Sofia later next week. Then the whole national team is moving to Varna for Vivatel Cup with [b]Russia, Israel[/b] and [b]Croatia[/b] for last tests before the first game from qualifications against [b]Ukraine[/b] on August 31.