Mario Musa

Mario Musa (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈmaːriɔ ˈmuːsa]; born 6 July 1990) is a Croatian professional footballer who last played for Dinamo Zagreb.[1]

Mario Musa
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-07-06) 6 July 1990
Place of birth Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Left back, left midfielder
Youth career
1996–2003 Zrinski Farkaševac
2003–2005 Posavina Zagreb
2005–2006 Samobor
2007–2009 Dinamo Zagreb
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2015 Lokomotiva 106 (6)
2015–2019 Dinamo Zagreb 29 (2)
2016 → Maccabi Haifa (loan) 11 (0)
2017 → Hammarby IF (loan) 2 (0)
2017–2018 → Lokomotiva (loan) 27 (3)
National team‡
2008 Croatia U18 3 (0)
2008 Croatia U19 2 (0)
2011 Croatia U21 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 August 2019
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 August 2018

Club career

Born in Zagreb, Musa started playing football at his local NK Zrinski from Farkaševec Samoborski. After seven years at the club, he moved to Davor Šuker's academy at NK Posavina Zagreb and subsequently Samobor before joining the GNK Dinamo Zagreb academy in 2007.[2]

Following his youth career Musa became a part of a series of loans and transfers between Dinamo Zagreb and Lokomotiva Zagreb,[2] playing for Lokomotiva in the Prva HNL, but going on loans from Dinamo Zagreb or joining Lokomotiva on free transfers and returning, depending on loaned player quotas between the two clubs.[2] Mostly a first-team player, he also featured in the Croatia U21 national team in 2011.[3]

In January 2015, he returned for good to Dinamo Zagreb, but suffered an injury during training.[4] He would go on to feature 17 times for the first team, scorin one goal, before being loaned on again, this time abroad, to Maccabi Haifa.[5] He did not remain in Israel, however, but moved to Sweden, again on loan, in early 2017, signing for Hammarby Fotboll.[6] He would go on to feature only twice for the Swedish club before returning to Croatia. Two more loan spells at Lokomotiva followed, with Zagreb pulling him back from his planned 2018–19 loan after only one month, in mid-August 2018,[2] in need of a left-back to serve as alternate for Marin Leovac.[7]

References
  1. "Croatia - M. Musa - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com.
  2. Musa ponovno u Dinamu at NogometPlus
  3. Mario Musa at HNS-CFF
  4. "Mario Musa ostao jedini bek, a i on je ozlijeđen". www.vecernji.hr.
  5. Musa iz Dinama u Izrael at Sportarena.hr
  6. Mario Musa klar för Hammarby at hammarbyfotboll.se
  7. Novi-stari igrač na Maksimiru: Musin osmi transfer na relaciji Dinamo-Lokomotiva at jabuka.tv
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