Danijel Mađarić (born 13 November 1974) is a Croatian former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Mađarić started his professional career with NK Varteks in 1996 and left the club for

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in 2003, eventually returning to Varteks in 2006. He left Varteks in the summer of 2009 and was briefly without a club, before joining

NK Čakovec Nogometni Klub Čakovec (), commonly referred to as NK Čakovec or simply Čakovec, was a Croatian football club based in Čakovec, in the northern part of the country. The club folded in 2011. The club's arguably biggest success came when they ...

in the fourth tier of Croatian football on a short-term contract in September 2009. He went on to join

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in January 2010, becoming the club's first-choice goalkeeper in the latter stages of the 2009–10 season, which saw them being relegated from the

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. In February 2011, he was sentenced to seven months in prison for his involvement in

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during his spell with NK Međimurje the previous season. He subsequently received a lifetime ban by the

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Danijel Mađarić profile
at Nogometni Magazin 1977 births Living people Footballers from Čakovec Men's association football goalkeepers Croatian men's footballers NK Varaždin (1931–2015) players Zagłębie Lubin players NK Čakovec players NK Međimurje players Croatian Football League players Ekstraklasa players I liga players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Match fixers Sportspeople banned for life {{Croatia-footy-goalkeeper-stub