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balling. At the time, I was a little neglectful when school was in question, I have to admit I was not good at school but I had to continue it. Struga is a small town and you don’t have a lot of things to do there. My friends did sports and so I continued. And here I am today. 2012 is behind. Which moments in sport will remain in your memory? Certainly, there is a lot of stuff, and I will first mention our placement at the European Handball Championship in Serbia where we ranked the fifth, which is certainly enormous success for this generation and our country. We know against how many super powers and strong leagues we finished the mondial, so this was one of the first things that hallmarked the triumph of all of us. The second thing was the placement of Metalurg among the Top 16 in the Champions League. We showed that handball had an upward course in the country. There is no more such a thing as it was several years ago when we played against Barcelona, Kiel, or against the Danish or the Norwegian Leagues when we thought, let us try to lose with 10, not 15, because 15 would be a shame. Now, everybody looks at us through different eyes. At the European Championship, we showed that we could cope, those two matches we lost were with a difference of one goal each, and the same was with the Handball Club (RK) Metalurg, we joined the best in Europe, we have been hanging on, winning, so this generation that is currently playing handball should certainly be respected, and I think they will last for a few more years and achieve a few more grand competitions. You have been awarded the Athlete of the Year Award by the City of Skopje and have been among the three nominated for the Athlete of the Year in Macedonia by the Youth and Sport Agency. What is the feeling? This is certainly something big for me, to be the first in the City of Skopje and in the closest selection of the Youth and Sport Agency beside so many athletes from different sports is certainly a great recognition for me, and I wish that every athlete felt it and received it. It is a great honour for me, but my results with RK Metalurg in the Champions League and previously, at the European Championship with the national team were not accidental. Surely, it is an incentive for work, for even higher results or at least repeating the results. The Macedonian Phalanx is the one that supports you in triumph and defeat. Do you expect them to be with you in Spain? We do, there are some signals. I do not expect them to come in such numbers as in Serbia, not in any case because there, there were 14,000 of them. But I still expect at least 1,000 to 2,000 Macedonian supporters. We all know how and how strongly to cheer. So, if 2,000 came in Spain to support, it would be as if they were 20,000. We need that support and I think we will not disappoint them. Let us turn to your team playing. This season with RK Metalurg, you have played impeccably in the Champions League. What is your success formula? The formula is discipline, one system that should be cherished. People working in RK Metalurg have recognised that this generation of Macedonian handball players has quality, and complemented by experienced and quality foreign players such as Stanic, Kozlina, Vugrinec, Markovic, who have gathered in Metalurg, they have formed a quality team. As I said, mentally, we are better prepared now. We do not think as we did that it would be a shame if we lost with difference of a lot of points. Therefore, sport lovers look at us through different eyes, they look at us with respect. And, this success is not accidental. One could say that it was accidental if they had one or two wins, but this is continuity, and this continuity in Metalurg is the result of the organisation and good results in game. We hope that even more successful younger generations will come, certainly, if the club continues to work at this pace and under this organisation system. Still, we are moving step by step. Last year, Metalurg was at the Top 16, and this year, we hope to move to the Top 8 in Europe.
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Familijata sekako e najzaslu`na, no i dvajcata treneri, edniot Rak~e Madrinski, a drugiot Efto Gegerovski, so koj po~nav. Mo`ebi, vo mene vidoa ne{to pove}e i bukvalno me teraa da treniram i da odam na rakomet. Vo toj period malku fa}av krivini koga be{e vo pra{awe u~ili{teto, mora da priznaam ne mi be{e najdobra strana, no mora{e da se prodol`i. Struga e pomal grad, nema{ {to mnogu da pravi{, site drugari treniraa, pa taka prodol`iv i jas i eve kade stignav denes. 2012 e zad nas. Koi momenti na sportski plan }e Vi ostanat vo se}avawe? Sekako deka ima dosta dobri raboti, no na prvo mesto }e go izdvojam plasmanot na Evropskoto prvenstvo vo Srbija so osvojuvaweto na 5-toto mesto, {to sekako e eden ogromen uspeh za ovaa generacija i za na{ata dr`ava. Znaeme protiv kolku velesili i kakvi reprezentacii zavr{ivme na mundijalot, taka {to toa e edna od rabotite koi go odbele`aa sportskiot uspeh na site nas. Drugoto e plasmanot vo Top 16 na RK „Metalurg” vo Ligata na {ampionite. Poka`avme deka rakometot vo dr`avata odi vo nagorna linija. Nema pove}e ni{to od ona {to be{e pred nekolku godini, koga igravme so Barselona, so Kil ili, pak, so reprezentacijata protiv Danska, Norve{ka, aj da izgubime 10, da ne e 15 pa da e sramota. Sega site ne gledaat so drugi o~i. Na EP poka`avme deka so site mo`eme da se nosime, tie dva natprevara {to gi izgubivme bea po 1 gol razlika, a istoto i so RK „Metalurg”, vlegovme vo najdobrite vo Evropa, se dr`ime, pobeduvame, taka {to ovaa generacija momentalno {to e vo rakometot, sekako e za po~it i mislam deka }e trae u{te nekolku godini i }e do`ivee u{te nekolku golemi natprevaruvawa. Od Gradot Skopje ja dobivte nagradata Sportist na godinata, a pak od AMS ste me|u trojcata nominirani za Sportist na godinata vo Makedonija. Kakvo e ~uvstvoto? Ova sekako e ne{to golemo za mene, pokraj tolku sportisti od razli~ni sportovi da si prv vo Grad Skopje i vo najtesna konkurencija od Agencija za mladi i sport, sekako deka e golemo priznanie za mene, i posakuvam sekoj sportist da go iskusi i da go dobie. Golema ~est e za mene, no ne se slu~ajnost golemite rezultati so RK „Metalurg” vo L[, a i predhodno na EP so reprezentacijata. Sekako, toa dava motiv za rabota, za pogolemi uspesi ili barem povtoruvawe na rezultatite. Makedonskata falanga e onaa koja vo pobeda i poraz sekoga{ Ve bodri. O~ekuvate li taa da bide so Vas i vo [panija? O~ekuvame, najavi ima. Ne o~ekuvam takov broj kako vo Srbija vo nikoj slu~aj, tamu ima{e okolu 14.000 mislam, no sekako o~ekuvam barem 1.000, do 2.000 Makedonci, a znaeme kolku i kako navivame, pa i 2.000 da dojdat vo [panija da navivaat e kako da se 20.000. Ni treba taa podr{ka i mislam deka nema da gi razo~arame. Da se prefrlime na ekipen plan. So RK „Metalurg” sezonava igrate besprekorno vo L[. Koj e receptot za uspeh? Receptot e edna disciplina, eden sistem koj treba da se neguva. Lu|eto, koi rabotat vo RK „Metalurg” prepoznaa deka ovaa generacija makedonski rakometari ima kvalitet, a nadopolneta so iskusni i kvalitetni stranci kako Stani~, Kozlina, Vugrinec, Markovi} koi se sobraa vo Metalurg oformija eden kvaliteten tim. Toa {to go ka`av, psihi~ki sme podobro podgotveni. Ne razmisluvame kako porano, samo da ne izgubime so mnogu razlika, da ne bide stramota. Pa, zatoa sega qubitelite na sportot na nas gledaat so drugi o~i, n¢ gledaat so respekt. I, ne e slu~aen