Usually, they would be there, in front of the Soborna Church, the largest Orthodox place of worship in the country and meeting point for ultras Komiti on match days. But, here as elsewhere, the pandemic has upset the ordinary. Vardar plays in Veles, about forty kilometers from the capital, Skopje, a match for its maintenance in the elite, but no one, not even the most loyal, to support a club in the midst of a sporting and economic crisis. As if OM were sinking into general indifference. Vardar Skopje, it’s eleven league titles since the creation of the North Macedonian Championship in 1992, the only club in the country to have crossed the dams once, in 2017-18, to reach a group stage in the League. Europa. Three years later, it’s the descent. And the fear of the disappearance even if the kids of the academy of the club (photo above) want to believe in a resurrection and continue to train hard while dreaming of elsewhere.
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