Naydosky, Elijah

Club

He began his football career at the Pitu Guli club from Krushevo, and continued with the Pobeda team, for which he played for the main and youth squad from 1979 to 1983, inclusive. In 1984, he moved to Vardar from Skopje, for which he played until 1988, when he moved to Belgrade's Red Star. As part of Crvena Zvezda, he won the Yugoslav Championship three times (1990, 1991, 1992), won the Cup in 1990 and won the European Champions Cup and Intercontinental Cup in 1991. After four seasons as part of the “red-white” he moved to the Spanish “Real Valladolid”, for which he played two seasons. August 1, 1994 signed a contract with the Turkish “ Denizlispor ”, played in his composition 28 matches. May 31, 1995 at the end of the contract left the club ^[2] Subsequently, he also performed in Sofia CSKA and Swiss “Sion”, where he completed his career.

Team

In the national team of Yugoslavia, he played 11 matches and scored one goal on May 16, 1991 against the Faroe Islands team , and in total the Yugoslavs won 7-0. The debut took place on September 12, 1990 in a match in Belfast against Northern Ireland (2: 0), the last game was played on March 25, 1992 against the Netherlands in Amsterdam. The Yugoslavs lost 0: 2, and this game was the last for the Yugoslav national team before the collapse of the country. For independent Macedonia, Elijah played the first match in its history on October 13, 1993 against Slovenia (the Macedonians won 1: 4). In total, he played 10 matches for the Macedonians.

There is a son Dino playing for the youth team of Macedonia.

• Profile on the website of the national team of Serbia (Serb.)