North Macedonia PM promises players 500,000 euros

North Macedonia’s unexpected win away to Italy in their World Cup season finisher semi last week set up a surprising clash against Portugal with the nation’s Prime Minister offering the crew 500,000 euros ($549,300.00) assuming they reach the 2022 competition.

The outcome stunned the soccer world and wrecked a potential clash between the last two European bosses Italy and Portugal, who both shockingly missed out on qualifying from the group stage for the World Cup in Qatar.

After the season finisher draw the features were about the normal dramatization of one of the two soccer powers passing up the finals with such countless top players in their crews and how a logical season finisher standoff between them would be brimming with show.

North Macedonia didn’t follow the content and thumped four-time World Cup victors Italy out of conflict.

Portugal in the interim endure late dramatization in their season finisher semi-last as they beat Turkey 3-1 subsequent to visiting striker Burak Yilmaz missed a punishment a short ways from the end that might have constrained additional time at Porto’s sold-out Dragao arena.

Italy didn’t have such karma in Palermo, losing 1-0 after an additional time Aleksandar Trajkovski objective hushed the group at the Renzo Barbera arena who watched in dismay as the contradicting seat ran onto the pitch to celebrate triumph with the players.

North Macedonia, who highlighted at Euro 2020 in their first appearance at a significant competition since the separation of Yugoslavia thirty years prior, will currently confront Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal in one more pressed arena in Porto.

The 50,000 tickets for Tuesday’s down at the Dragao arena were sold out in a couple of hours in the midst of immense expectation from neighborhood fans as Portugal bid for a spot at the global competition.