Mario Musa Explained

Mario Musa
Birth Date:1990 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
Height:1.83 m
Position:Left-back
Youthyears1:1996–2003
Youthyears2:2003–2005
Youthyears3:2005–2006
Youthyears4:2007–2009
Youthclubs1:Zrinski Farkaševac
Youthclubs2:Posavina Zagreb
Youthclubs3:Samobor
Youthclubs4:Dinamo Zagreb
Years1:2009–2015
Years2:2015–2019
Years3:2015
Years4:2016
Years5:2017
Years6:2017–2018
Years7:2021–2022
Years8:2022
Clubs1:Lokomotiva Zagreb
Clubs2:Dinamo Zagreb
Clubs3:Dinamo Zagreb II
Clubs4:Maccabi Haifa (loan)
Clubs5:Hammarby IF (loan)
Clubs6:Lokomotiva Zagreb (loan)
Clubs7:Lokomotiva Zagreb
Clubs8:Aluminij
Caps1:106
Caps2:29
Caps3:4
Caps4:11
Caps5:2
Caps6:27
Caps7:6
Caps8:11
Goals1:6
Goals2:2
Goals3:0
Goals4:0
Goals5:0
Goals6:3
Goals7:0
Goals8:0
Nationalyears1:2008
Nationalteam1:Croatia U18
Nationalcaps1:3
Nationalgoals1:0
Nationalyears2:2008
Nationalteam2:Croatia U19
Nationalcaps2:2
Nationalgoals2:0
Nationalyears3:2011
Nationalteam3:Croatia U21
Nationalcaps3:2
Nationalgoals3:0
Pcupdate:5 November 2022

Mario Musa (pronounced as /hr/; born 6 July 1990) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a left-back.[1]

Club career

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

Musa featured in the Croatian under-21 team in 2011.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Croatia – M. Musa – Profile with news, career statistics and history. soccerway.com.
  2. http://www.nogometplus.net/index.php/domaci_nogomet/musa-ponovno-u-dinamu/ Musa ponovno u Dinamu
  3. Web site: Mario Musa ostao jedini bek, a i on je ozlijeđen. www.vecernji.hr.
  4. https://sportarena.hr/nogomet/hrvatska/dinamo/musa-iz-dinama-u-izrael/ Musa iz Dinama u Izrael
  5. https://www.hammarbyfotboll.se/aktuellt/nyheter/mario-musa-klar-for-hammarby/ Mario Musa klar för Hammarby
  6. https://www.jabuka.tv/novi-stari-igrac-na-maksimiru-musin-osmi-transfer-na-relaciji-dinamo-lokomotiva/ Novi-stari igrač na Maksimiru: Musin osmi transfer na relaciji Dinamo-Lokomotiva
  7. http://hns-cff.hr/players/20574/mario-musa/ Mario Musa