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Mario Maloča

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Mario Maloča
Mario Maloča.jpg
Maloča playing for Hajduk Split in 2010
Personal information
Date of birth (1989-05-04) 4 May 1989 (age 33)
Place of birth Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Club information
Current team
 Lechia Gdańsk
Number 23
Youth career
1998–2004 Dinamo Zagreb
2004–2005 NK Zagreb
2006 Inter Zaprešić
2006 Kamen Ingrad
2007–2008 Hajduk Split
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2015 Hajduk Split 170 (4)
2015–2018 Lechia Gdańsk 60 (4)
2017–2018 → Greuther Fürth (loan) 31 (2)
2018-2019 Greuther Fürth 24 (0)
2019– Lechia Gdańsk 85 (2)
International career
2008 Croatia U19 3 (1)
2008–2009 Croatia U20 6 (0)
2008–2010 Croatia U21 13 (0)
2012 Croatia 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 November 2022

Mario Maloča (born 4 May 1989) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Lechia Gdańsk.

Club career

Maloča spent most of his youth career at Dinamo Zagreb and had spells with youth teams at NK Zagreb, Inter Zaprešić and Kamen Ingrad.[1] In 2007, Maloča signed for Hajduk Split.

He made his Prva HNL debut with Hajduk at the age of 18 against Šibenik in the 2007–08 season and soon became a first team regular, playing alongside renowned defenders such as Igor Tudor, Goran Sablić and Boris Živković. After the season ended he signed a five-year contract with Hajduk, binding him to Poljud until 2013. In April 2015, he was dropped to B team for a short time, and in July 2015 he left Hajduk.

In July 2017, Maloča joined 2. Bundesliga side SpVgg Greuther Fürth on loan for the 2017–18 season.[2]

In May 2019 it was confirmed, that he had joined Lechia Gdańsk on a 3-year contract.[3]

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GNK Dinamo Zagreb

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NK Zagreb

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NK Inter Zaprešić

NK Inter Zaprešić

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NK Kamen Ingrad

NK Kamen Ingrad

NK Kamen Ingrad was a Croatian football club from Velika, a small town near Požega in the northeast of Croatia. The club was dissolved in July 2008 after serious financial problems.

HNK Hajduk Split

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Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 1979, the club's home ground has been the 34,198-seater Stadion Poljud. The team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and blue socks.

HNK Šibenik

HNK Šibenik

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Igor Tudor

Igor Tudor

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Goran Sablić

Goran Sablić

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Boris Živković

Boris Živković

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2. Bundesliga

2. Bundesliga

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SpVgg Greuther Fürth

SpVgg Greuther Fürth

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Lechia Gdańsk

Lechia Gdańsk

Lechia Gdańsk is a Polish football club based in Gdańsk. The club was founded in 1945 by people expelled from Lwów, who were supporters of Poland's oldest football team Lechia Lwów, founded in 1903. The club's name comes from Lechia, a poetic name for Poland, and is a continuation of the name used by the club based in Lwów. In their early years, Lechia enjoyed some success, most notably finishing third in the Polish top division, before spending decades in the second and third tiers. In the early 1980s, Lechia won the Polish Cup, the Polish SuperCup, and played in a European competition for the first time. After having two mergers with other teams in the 1990s the club had to restart from the sixth tier in 2001. In May 2008 the club was promoted again to the Ekstraklasa, with the club's most recent success coming in 2019, finishing third in the league and again winning both the Polish Cup and SuperCup.

International career

Maloča also earned 13 caps for Croatia's U-19 and U-21 teams and took part in Croatia's 2008 Under-19 European Championship campaign where he scored a goal against Albania. In August 2012, he was called to the Croatia national football team by Croatian manager Igor Štimac.[1] He debuted in a friendly match against Switzerland, where he started and was substituted by Ante Vukušić at the start of the second half.[4]

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Croatia national football team

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Switzerland national football team

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Ante Vukušić

Ante Vukušić

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Career statistics

As of match played 27 January 2018 [5][6]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Hajduk Split 2007–08 Prva HNL 12 0 4 1 — — 16 1
2008–09 16 0 5 1 3[a] 0 — 24 1
2009–10 20 0 6 0 2[a] 0 — 28 0
2010–11 27 0 1 0 9[a] 0 1[b] 0 38 0
2011–12 14 1 3 0 2[a] 0 — 19 1
2012–13 23 1 6 0 4[a] 0 — 33 1
2013–14 30 1 2 0 4[a] 1 — 36 2
2014–15 28 1 5 1 6[a] 0 — 39 2
Total 170 4 32 3 30 1 1 0 233 8
Lechia Gdańsk 2015–16 Ekstraklasa 22 2 0 0 — 6[c] 0 28 2
2016–17 24 2 1 0 — 7[d] 0 32 2
2017–18 1 0 0 0 — — 1 0
Total 47 4 1 0 0 0 13 0 61 4
Greuther Fürth 2017–18 2. Bundesliga 17 1 2 0 — — 19 1
Career total 234 9 35 3 30 1 14 0 313 13
  1. ^ a b c d e f g Appearances in the Europa League
  2. ^ Appearance in the Hrvatski Superkup
  3. ^ Appearances in the 2015–16 Ekstraklasa Championship round
  4. ^ Appearances in the 2016–17 Ekstraklasa Championship round

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2007–08 HNK Hajduk Split season

2007–08 HNK Hajduk Split season

The 2007–08 season was the 97th season in Hajduk Split’s history and their seventeenth in the Prva HNL. Their 2nd place finish in the 2006–07 season meant it was their 17th successive season playing in the Prva HNL.

2008–09 HNK Hajduk Split season

2008–09 HNK Hajduk Split season

The 2008–09 season was the 98th season in Hajduk Split's history and their eighteenth in the Prva HNL. Their 5th-place finish in the 2007–08 season meant it was their 18th successive season playing in the Prva HNL.

2009–10 HNK Hajduk Split season

2009–10 HNK Hajduk Split season

The 2009–10 season was the 99th season in Hajduk Split’s history and their nineteenth in the Prva HNL. Their 2nd place finish in the 2008–09 season meant it was their 19th successive season playing in the Prva HNL.

2010–11 HNK Hajduk Split season

2010–11 HNK Hajduk Split season

The 2010–11 season was the 100th season in Hajduk Split's history and their twentieth in the Prva HNL. Their second-place finish in the 2009–10 season meant it was their 20th successive season playing in the Prva HNL. It was the third tenure for manager Stanko Poklepović at Hajduk, after he was appointed following Edoardo Reja's departure to Lazio in February 2010. Poklepović won the Croatian Cup's previous season, his third silverware. The season covers a period from 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2011.

2011–12 HNK Hajduk Split season

2011–12 HNK Hajduk Split season

The 2011–12 season was the 101st season in Hajduk Split’s history and their twenty-first in the Croatian First Football League. Their 2nd place finish in the 2010–11 season means it was their 21st successive season playing in the Prva HNL.

2012–13 HNK Hajduk Split season

2012–13 HNK Hajduk Split season

The 2012–13 season was the 102nd season in Hajduk Split's history and their twenty-second in the Prva HNL. Their 2nd-place finish in the 2011–12 season means it was their 22nd successive season playing in the Prva HNL.

2013–14 HNK Hajduk Split season

2013–14 HNK Hajduk Split season

The 2013–14 season was the 103rd season in Hajduk Split’s history and their twenty-third in the Prva HNL. Their 4th place finish in the 2012–13 season means it is their 23rd successive season playing in the Prva HNL.

2014–15 HNK Hajduk Split season

2014–15 HNK Hajduk Split season

The 2014–15 season was the 104th season in Hajduk Split’s history and their twenty-fourth in the Prva HNL. Their 3rd place finish in the 2013–14 season means it was their 24th successive season playing in the Prva HNL.

2015–16 Ekstraklasa

2015–16 Ekstraklasa

The 2015–16 Ekstraklasa was the 82nd season of the highest level of football leagues in Poland since its establishment in 1927. A total of 16 teams were participating, 14 of which competed in the league during the 2014–15 season, while the remaining two were promoted from the I Liga. Each team played a total of 37 matches, half at home and half away.

2016–17 Ekstraklasa

2016–17 Ekstraklasa

The 2016–17 Ekstraklasa was the 83rd season of the Ekstraklasa, the top Polish professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1927. The league is operated by the Ekstraklasa SA.

2017–18 Ekstraklasa

2017–18 Ekstraklasa

The 2017–18 Ekstraklasa was the 92nd season of the Polish Football Championship, the 84th season of the highest tier domestic division in the Polish football league system since its establishment in 1927 and the 10th season of the Ekstraklasa under its current title. The league was operated by the Ekstraklasa SA.

2. Bundesliga

2. Bundesliga

The 2. Bundesliga (Zweite Bundesliga [ˈtsvaɪtə ˈbʊndəsˌliːɡa], lit. '2nd Federal League') is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below the Bundesliga and above the 3. Liga in the German football league system. All of the 2. Bundesliga clubs take part in the DFB-Pokal, the annual German Cup competition. A total of 127 clubs have competed in the 2. Bundesliga since its foundation.

Personal life

Despite being born in Zagreb and part of Dinamo Zagreb youth team in his early years, Maloča opted to play for Hajduk Split. Maloča married his childhood sweetheart Ivana in June 2012. The couple had their first child, Tea, on 21 March 2013.[7]

Honours

Hajduk Split

Lechia Gdańsk

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Croatian Football Cup

Croatian Football Cup

The Hrvatski nogometni kup, also colloquially known as Rabuzinovo sunce, is an annually held football tournament for Croatian football clubs and is the second most important competition in Croatian football after the HNL championship. It is governed by the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) and usually runs from late August to late May. Cup winners automatically qualify for next season's UEFA Europa Conference League, except when cup winners are also Prva HNL champions, in which case their berth in the Europa Conference League goes to the best placed team in the Prva HNL who haven't qualified for the UEFA competitions through their league performance.

Polish Super Cup

Polish Super Cup

The Polish Super Cup is an annually held match between the champions of the Ekstraklasa and the Polish Cup winners or, if the Ekstraklasa champions also win the Polish Cup, the Cup's runners-up. As of 2021, the Polish Super Cup has been played 31 times. The most successful club is Lech Poznań, who won 6 times. The most common participant are Legia Warsaw, as they played fourteen final games and have lost their eight following finals since 2012. Unlike in Polish Cup, there is no extra time played in the competition, therefore in case of a draw after regular time match goes straight into a penalty shoot-out.

2019 Polish Super Cup

2019 Polish Super Cup

The 2019 Polish Super Cup was the 29th Polish Super Cup, an annual Polish football match played between the reigning winners of the Ekstraklasa and Polish Cup. It was held on 13 July 2019 between the 2018–19 Ekstraklasa champions Piast Gliwice and the 2018–19 Polish Cup winners Lechia Gdańsk at the home of the Ekstraklasa champions Piast, the Stadion Miejski in Gliwice. Piast played their first ever Super Cup match, while Lechia played their second ever and the first since 1983. This was the first Super Cup match since 2010 to not feature Legia Warsaw.

Source: "Mario Maloča", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, February 13th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Maloča.

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References
  1. ^ a b "Vatreni.info - Mario Maloča Biography" (in Croatian). vatreni.info. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  2. ^ "SpVgg Greuther Fürth leiht Innenverteidiger Mario Maloca von Lechia Gdansk aus". kicker Online (in German). 25 July 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  3. ^ Oficjalnie: Mario Maloca wraca do Lechii Gdańsk! "Zdecydowaliśmy z moją rodziną, że to najlepsze rozwiązanie", dziennikbaltycki.pl, 22 May 2019
  4. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Mario Maloca > Club Matches". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  6. ^ "M. Maloča". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Mario Maloča postao ponosni otac male Tee - Večernji.hr" (in Croatian). vecernji.hr. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
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