Mario Musa (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈmaːriɔ ˈmuːsa]; born 6 July 1990) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a left-back.[1]
 Musa with Maccabi Haifa in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 6 July 1990 | ||
| Place of birth | Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Left-back | ||
| 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 Zagreb | 106 | (6) |
| 2015–2019 | Dinamo Zagreb | 29 | (2) |
| 2015 | → Dinamo Zagreb II | 4 | (0) |
| 2016 | → Maccabi Haifa (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2017 | → Hammarby IF (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | → Lokomotiva Zagreb (loan) | 27 | (3) |
| 2021–2022 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 6 | (0) |
| 2022 | Aluminij | 11 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2008 | Croatia U18 | 3 | (0) |
| 2008 | Croatia U19 | 2 | (0) |
| 2011 | Croatia U21 | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 November 2022 | |||
Club career edit
Born in Zagreb, Musa started playing football at his local Zrinski from Farkaševec Samoborski. After seven years at the club, he moved to Davor Šuker's academy at Posavina Zagreb and subsequently Samobor, before joining the 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]
In January 2015, he returned to Dinamo Zagreb, but suffered an injury during training.[3] He would go on to feature 17 times for the first team, scoring one goal, before being loaned on again, this time abroad, to Maccabi Haifa.[4] He did not remain in Israel, however, but moved to Sweden, again on loan, in early 2017, signing for Hammarby Fotboll.[5] 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.[6]
International career edit
Musa featured in the Croatian under-21 team in 2011.[7]
References edit
- ^ "Croatia – M. Musa – Profile with news, career statistics and history". soccerway.com.
- ^ a b c d Musa ponovno u Dinamu at NogometPlus
- ^ "Mario Musa ostao jedini bek, a i on je ozlijeđen". www.vecernji.hr.
- ^ Musa iz Dinama u Izrael at Sportarena.hr
- ^ Mario Musa klar för Hammarby at hammarbyfotboll.se
- ^ Novi-stari igrač na Maksimiru: Musin osmi transfer na relaciji Dinamo-Lokomotiva at jabuka.tv
- ^ Mario Musa at HNS-CFF
External links edit
- Mario Musa at the Croatian Football Federation
- Mario Musa at ESPN FC
- Mario Musa at FBref.com
- Mario Musa at Soccerbase.com
- Mario Musa at Soccerway.com
- Mario Musa at WorldFootball.net
- Mario Musa at AS.com (in Spanish)
- Mario Musa at Croatian Football Statistics (archived) (in Croatian)
