Skopje Vardar is a European champion. Exhausted, excited, with a hoarse voice, Vardar handball players congratulated the title to their fans, and they responded by chanting “Champion, Champion!”. Although the celebration was below the level of success, on Monday night it was an honor to be Macedonian, but also sad that foreign nationals gave us a lesson of national pride. Croats, Russians, a Lithuanian, a Serb, a Spaniard, a German … They were all Macedonians Monday evening, thanking Macedonia for the support, love, and joy.

With thousands of people chanting “Never North, always Macedonia”, the European champions stepped onto the stage set in their honor. They dedicated their victory to Macedonia, although many of them were not born Macedonians.

Many here are not Macedonians, but when they go to their countries, they will say: there was Vardar, in Macedonia, said Vardar captain Stojance Stoilov.

Confirmation came from favorite Russian Timur Dibirov.

If this is the ‘player with number 5’, then I’m the player with number 31, we all feel like Macedonians here. Two years ago I did not think that I would experience this again. Thank you Macedonians, today we are all Macedonians !, he said.

Shishkaryov also wished to be a Macedonian.

I’ve been asking for a Macedonian passport the whole year, but you do not give it to me, he said.

The victory also made the only German in the Final 4 a proud Macedonian. In the announcement, Diborov said: “What time has come when a German wants to be a Macedonian”.

There were many Macedonians at the welcoming celebration on the square with a proud name, but also many hypocrites. Their presence was personified in the presence of the city mayor at the airport, and then behind the stage.

Neither he feels as proud Macedonian, nor he feels Vardar as Macedonian, and do not they feel him like their own. Petre was necessarily evil, a fifth wheel, whose presence undoubtedly leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. But the crown did not stop chanting “Macedonia, Macedonia”. Just as Petre never said, “long live”.

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and President Stevo Pendarovski were not present at the welcoming celebration, neither on the stage, nor behind it, nor at the airport. There was not a single member of the executive to welcome the European champions. Only Petre with the expression “why me”. And why would they have been there? These people came for Vardar, for Macedonia, for national pride, for the name that will not perish, which we carry in our souls… And among the government, there are no proud Macedonians. And they are not welcome among Macedonians. A government that has no people to rule and a nation that has no government.

On Monday evening it became clear that the government in this country has no legitimacy, and the rulers are afraid to face the people. They have nothing to say to the people, and the people do not want to hear them. Parallel worlds, which must be crossed and forever pass each other.