Marijana Rajčić (born 15 March 1989) is an Australian rules football player with the Adelaide Football Club in the

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(AFLW).

Soccer career

Prior to taking up Australian rules football, Rajcic had had previously played soccer with

Adelaide United Adelaide United Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club participates in the A-League Men under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was founded in 2003 to fil ...

in the Australian W-League. Prior to that she had played fully professionally for Gustafs GoIF in the

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for the 2012 season, and played for

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in the Victorian Women's Premier League when she returned to soccer after knee surgery. She considers captaining Adelaide United in 2015 the best achievement in her soccer career.

AFL Women's

Rajčić was drafted by Adelaide Football Club with their fourth selection and 32nd overall in the

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after just one season with

Norwood Football Club Norwood Football Club, nicknamed the Redlegs, is an Australian rules football club competing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in the state of South Australia. Its home ground is Coopers Stadium (Norwood Oval), which i ...

in the

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's Statewide Super Women's League. She previously took up the sport on the advice of a friend and in doing so followed the example of fellow dual-code players Brianna Davey,

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and

Jenna McCormick Jenna McCormick (born 7 September 1994) is a professional Australian sportswoman who plays soccer for Australian A-League Women club Brisbane Roar and has played Australian rules football for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AF ...

. Rajcic made her league debut in round 3 of the 2018 season in a seven-point win over the at Norwood Oval.

Personal life

In 2020, Rajčić competed on ''

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'' with

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as a "stowaway team". In post-show interviews, the two revealed that they had started dating before filming began. She is of Croatian descendant.

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