FYR of Macedonia coach Marjan Lazovski has named a 28-man preliminary squad for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament to be held in Venezuela.

A shock fourth place finish, including a quarter-final victory over hosts Lithuania at Eurobasket last year secured hopes of a first ever Olympic appearance, but they must first finish in the top three of the Olympic Qualifying Tournament held in Caracas (July 2nd-8th) to get to London.

The list includes five naturalized players which features Montepaschi Siena guard Bo McCalebb.

FYR of Macedonia preliminary squad:

Vlado Illlievski (Lokomotiv Kuban)
Ognjen Stojanovski (MZT)
Damjan Stojanovski (Lukoil Academic)
Vojdan Stojanovski (Donetsk)
Pero Antic (Olympiacos)
Todor Gecevski (MZT)
Gjorgi Cekovski (MZT)
Predrag Samardziski (Lietuvos Rytas)
Kiril Nikolovski (Feni)
Darko Sokolov (Feni)
Dime Tasovski (Lyria)
Jane Petrovski (Renova)
Alexander Kostoski  (Kumanovo)
Ivica Dimceski (Torus)
Dimitar Mirakovski (Renova)
Marko Simonovski (Feni)
Gorjan Markovski (Torus)
Bojan Trajovski (Torus)
Bojan Krstevski (Torus)
Nikola Karakolev (Torus)
Riste Stefanov (Ilisiakos)
Todd Zafirovski (Duke, NCAA)
Stojan Gjuroski (Louisiana Only, NCAA)
Bo McCalebb (Montepaschi Siena)
Winston Kennedy (Ostende)
Jeremiah Massey (Lokomotiv Kuban)
Darius Washington (Turk Telekom)
Marques Green (Avelino)