Mario Šitum (born 4 April 1992) is a Croatian professional

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who plays for Italian

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club

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Club career

Šitum's senior career began when he was promoted from the Dinamo Academy to the first team in 2011, making his first-team debut in the same year in a 3–0 win over Czech side

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. On 19 February 2011 he started and played 75 minutes in a friendly against

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, which Dinamo won 4–3 at the newly renovated

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in Pula. His first league appearance came on 26 February 2011 in Dinamo's game against

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. Šitum started the match and scored in the 12th minute, a goal which turned out to be the game winner. Šitum started on a high note in the 2011–12 season, scoring the fourth goal in a 5–0 win against

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, and then scoring twice in a 4–0 win against

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. He scored again in the next round, netting the only goal in a win against

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. On 17 July 2014, Šitum joined Italian

club

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on loan after a -year loan spell with

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. On 17 June 2017, he was loaned to Polish side

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. On 1 September 2022, Šitum signed with

International career

Internationally, Šitum scored his first goals for the

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, during qualification for the

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in the match against

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where Šitum scored the first two goals in a 4–0 win. In May 2015 he received a call-up to the senior

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squad for the friendly against

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and for a Euro 2016 qualifier game against

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. His final international was a January 2017 China Cup against the hosts.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Situm, Mario 1992 births Living people Footballers from Zagreb Men's association football forwards Croatian men's footballers Croatia men's youth international footballers Croatia men's under-21 international footballers Croatia men's international footballers GNK Dinamo Zagreb players NK Lokomotiva Zagreb players Spezia Calcio players Lech Poznań players Kayserispor footballers LFA Reggio Calabria players Cosenza Calcio players US Catanzaro 1929 players Croatian Football League players Serie B players First Football League (Croatia) players Ekstraklasa players Süper Lig players Serie C players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey