Marinko Mačkić

Marinko Mačkić
Personal information
Full name Marinko Mačkić
Date of birth (1983-03-28) 28 March 1983
Place of birth Banja Luka, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position Left Defender
Youth career
1993–1997 Sloboda Novi Grad
Čukarički
1997–2000 Partizan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2002 Mladost Lučani 69 (1)
2003 Vojvodina 1 (0)
2003–2005 Borac Banja Luka 54 (4)
2005–2006 FK Sarajevo 34 (2)
2007 Saba Battery 21 (0)
National team
FR Yugoslavia U-19 1 (0)
2003–2005 Bosnia-Herzegovina U-21 10 (0)
Teams managed
Sloboda Novi Grad
Slovan Ljubljana (youth)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Marinko Mačkić (born March 28, 1983) is a Bosnian football manager and formar player. He usually played as defender and he made his career in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iran.

Club career

Born in Banja Luka,[1] SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Marinko begin playing in FK Sloboda Novi Grad, before moving to Serbia to join the youth teams of FK Partizan.[1] He also played in the youth team of FK Čukarički.[2] He signed his first professional contract when he was 16, and he made his senior debut in 2000 when he joined FK Mladost Lučani playing in the Second League of FR Yugoslavia.[3] In its first season there, they got the promotion, and played the 2001–02 season in the First League of FR Yugoslavia. However, their top-flight season did not end well, and Mladost ended the season relegated back to the Second League.[4]

In the winter break of the 2002–03 season, Marinko Mačkić moved to one top-flight club, FK Vojvodina, but ended not having many chances of playing in the first team, so he ended up returning to Bosnia by playing on loan with his home-town club, FK Borac Banja Luka, playing now in the newly created Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[3]

In summer 2005 his loan deal ended, and he joined another Bosnian Premier League side, FK Sarajevo playing with them in the following one and a half seasons being coached by Husref Musemić.[3] In the winter break of the 2006–07 season he moved to Iran by joining Saba Battery.[3]

Because of health reasons he had to retire sooner than expcted and became a coach.[3] He first coached FK Sloboda Novi Grad and then became the coach of the youth team of Slovenian side ND Slovan.[3]

National team

He has played for Bosnia and Herzegovina national under-21 football team on ten occasions, and has also been called to play for the Bosnian national team in 2008 but has not debuted yet.[5]

Honours

FK Sarajevo

Personal life

After seing his career unexpectedly interrompted, Mačkić graduated at the Faculty of Sports in Sarajevo, and also obteined the UEFA coaching license.[3]

He is married to Vesna and has a son named Damjan.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Interview at Borac B.Luka official website (Serbian)
  2. Monografija 85. godina FK Čukarički page 93 (Serbian)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Marinko Mačkić: Žao mi je što nisam ostao na Koševu at klix.ba, 31-7-2013, retriieved 4-12-2016 (Bosnian)
  4. Stats from Serbia at Srbijafudbal
  5. Marinko Mačkić at Soccerway
  6. Copy of stats from Bosnian FA yearbooks at sportsport.ba
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