Marijo Marić (born 12 January 1977) is a Croatian former professional

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who played as a striker. He is the brother of

Tomislav Marić Tomislav Marić (born January 28, 1973) is a German-born Croatian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Club career Marić was born to Bosnian Croat parents in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg and started his first-team caree ...

Club career

Marić was born in

Heilbronn Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District. With over 126,000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state. From the late Mid ...

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. He started his career at

TSF Ditzingen The TSF Ditzingen is an association football club in Germany. It is located in the city of Ditzingen, in Baden-Wurttemberg. History The club was formed on 2 July 1893 under the name of TV Ditzingen. However, it did not have a football departm ...

, near

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

. He was then signed by Stuttgart II, and then had spells at

Waldhof Mannheim SV Waldhof Mannheim is a multi-sports club, located in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg. It is most known for its association football team; however, there are also professional handball and table-tennis sides. The club today has a membership of over ...

SSV Reutlingen SSV Reutlingen 05 is a German association football club from Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg. History The club was founded as FC Arminia Reutlingen and was renamed SV Reutlingen 1905 in 1910. The club fused with 1. Schwimmverein 1911 to form the ...

and

VfL Bochum Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum (), is a Football in Germany, German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has spent 35 seas ...

. He then moved to Austrian club

FC Kärnten FC Kärnten was an Austrian association football club based in Klagenfurt, Carinthia. It was founded in 1920 under the name of KSK Klagenfurt. History Austria Klagenfurt Austria Klagenfurt played successfully in the ''Kärntner Liga'' and in ...

and returned to Germany in summer 2004 when

Arminia Bielefeld DSC Arminia Bielefeld (; full name: ; commonly known as Arminia Bielefeld (), also known as ''Die Arminen'' or ''Die Blauen'' ), or just Arminia (), is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of ...

signed him for a two-year deal with a transfer fee of €150,000. He just made five substitute appearances and then moved to

Eintracht Trier SV Eintracht Trier 05 is a German association football club based in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate. It was formed on 11 March 1948 out of the merger of Westmark 05 Trier and Eintracht Trier 06, on the 43rd anniversary of the establishment of pred ...

in the 2. Bundesliga in January 2005. He then joined

SpVgg Unterhaching Spielvereinigung Unterhaching () is a German sports club in Unterhaching, a semi-rural municipality on the southern outskirts of the Bavarian capital Munich. The club is widely known for playing in the first-division association football league B ...

also in the 2. Bundesliga and after that

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club

VfR Aalen Verein für Rasenspiele 1921 Aalen e.V., known simply as VfR Aalen, is a German football club based in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg. The football team is part of a larger sports club which also offers its members gymnastics, table tennis, and cheer ...

. On 16 February 2009, he had an unsuccessful trial with Iranian giants

Esteghlal F.C. Esteghlal Football Club ( fa, باشگاه فوتبال استقلال, ''Bâšgâh-è Futbâl-è Esteqlâl''), commonly known as Esteghlal ( fa, استقلال, meaning 'The Independence'), is an Iranian football club based in capital Tehran th ...

and joined later KSG Gerlingen.

International career

While playing at

in the

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, he was called up to the

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, for whom he earned eight caps and scored one goal. While six of these were friendly matches, two of them were Euro 2004 qualifying matches. His international goal came in the friendly match against Macedonia on 9 February 2003. In the national team, he played three matches along with his brother

Tomislav Tomislav (, ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, that is widespread amongst the South Slavs. The meaning of the name ''Tomislav'' is thought to have derived from the Old Slavonic verb "'' tomiti''" or "'' tomit" meaning to "''languish ...

, two of them were ''Marijo'' replaced ''Tomislav'', one of them were they both at the field at the same time. He made his international debut in the friendly against

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on 21 August 2002 and he played his last match against

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, in a

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on 29 May 2004. He also played a B friendly against

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, on 30 January 2001.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maric, Marijo 1977 births Living people Sportspeople from Heilbronn Footballers from Baden-Württemberg German people of Croatian descent Association football forwards Croatian footballers Croatia international footballers TSF Ditzingen players VfB Stuttgart II players SV Waldhof Mannheim players SSV Reutlingen 05 players VfL Bochum players VfL Bochum II players FC Kärnten players Arminia Bielefeld players SV Eintracht Trier 05 players VfR Aalen players SpVgg Unterhaching players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Croatian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Austria Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Austria