Marko Marin

This article is about the German soccer player Marko Marin. He is not to be confused with the Italian saber fencer Marco Marin .

Marko Marin
in the jersey of FC Sevilla (2013)
Personnel
birthday	March 13, 1989
place of birth	Bosanska Gradiška ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size	170 cm
position	attacking midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1996	SG 01 Hoechst
1996-2005	Eintracht Frankfurt
2005-2006	Borussia Monchengladbach
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2007	Borussia Mönchengladbach II	16 0(3)
2007-2009	Borussia Monchengladbach	68 0(8)
2009–2012	Werder Bremen	87 0(8)
2012-2016	Chelsea FC	6 0(1)
2013-2014	→  Sevilla FC  (loan)	18 0(0)
2014-2015	→  Fiorentina  (loan)	0 0(0)
2015	→  RSC Anderlecht  (loan)	6 0(0)
2015-2016	→  Trabzonspor  (loan)	24 0(3)
2016-2018	Olympiacos Piraeus	37 (11)
2018-2019	FK Red Star Belgrade	34 0(9)
2020–	al-Ahli SC	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2004-2005	Germany U16	9 0(0)
2005-2006	Germany U17	16 0(5)
2006-2007	Germany U18	4 0(2)
2007-2009	Germany U21	12 0(1)
2008-2010	Germany	16 0(1)
1 Only league games are given. As of January 5, 2020

Marko Marin (born March 13, 1989 in Bosanska Gradiška , SFR Yugoslavia , today Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a German football player . The attacking midfielder has been under contract with al-Ahli SC in Saudi Arabia since January 2020 .

Life

When Marko Marin was two years old, his parents of Serbian origin emigrated to Germany. His father Ranko used to play soccer himself and was a talent scout at Borussia Mönchengladbach and Werder Bremen .

Marin grew up in Frankfurt-Unterliederbach . He first attended the Leibniz Gymnasium in Frankfurt-Höchst and later the Gymnasium Am Geroweiher in Mönchengladbach, where he completed his school education in 2007 with a technical diploma.

Club career

youth

Marko Marin started playing football at SG 01 Hoechst and then joined the youth department of Eintracht Frankfurt , which he left in 2005 to join the youth department of Borussia Mönchengladbach . After a year he moved up to the second team and quickly developed into a top performer.

professional

Borussia Monchengladbach

Marin in training at Borussia (2007)

Since an illness prevented him from accompanying the professionals to the summer training camp, he trained sporadically with the professionals after the winter break. For the game on March 31, 2007 against Eintracht Frankfurt , he was appointed to the Bundesliga squad for the first time by coach Jos Luhukay . In this game he came on in the 63rd minute for Marvin Compper and contributed with his free kick assist to the 1-1 final result by Federico Insúa in the 89th minute.

On June 13, 2007, Marin concluded a professional contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach that was valid until June 30, 2010 . From this point on he was an integral part of the Gladbach professional squad. He scored his first two league goals for Borussia on April 13, 2008 in a 3-0 home win against SpVgg Greuther Fürth . He also contributed a total of 13 assists in the 2007/08 season , making him one of the most successful goal setter in the 2nd Bundesliga . At the end of the season, Marin achieved immediate promotion back to the Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he was again one of the team's most important assists.

Werder Bremen

Marin in the dress of Werder Bremen (2009)

For the 2009/10 season Marin moved to league rivals SV Werder Bremen . There he immediately gained a foothold, established himself as a regular player, appeared primarily as a partner of Mesut Özil and prepared 14 goals in 32 games. Marin played 15 times in the first 15 competitive games of the season (nine league times, two DFB Cups , four Europa leagues ).

Chelsea FC

For the 2012/13 season Marin moved to Chelsea . After he had initially played no role under Roberto Di Matteo and only appeared once in the League Cup and twice in the U21 , he made his Premier League debut on November 28, 2012 under the new coach Rafael Benítez . In the goalless draw against Fulham FC he was substituted on for Eden Hazard in the 82nd minute . He scored his first goal for Chelsea on February 9, 2013 in the game at Stamford Bridge against Wigan Athletic immediately after being substituted on with the goal to make it 4-1 in the 90th minute. With three appearances, Marin was also part of the squad that won the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League title.

On loan through Europe

For the 2013/14 season Marin moved on loan to Sevilla FC in the Primera División . On May 14, 2014, Sevilla FC won the Europa League final 4: 2 i. E. against Benfica Lisbon . Marin came on for José Antonio Reyes in the 78th minute , but had to leave the field injured in the 104th minute.

On August 18, 2014 he was awarded for the 2014/15 season in the Italian Serie A at Fiorentina . Marin was not used in the league, played four times in the Europa League and scored two goals. The loan was ended in January 2015 and Marin was awarded to RSC Anderlecht in the Belgian Pro League . For the RSC, he came to six league and two cup appearances in which he scored no goals. On August 25, 2015 Marin switched again on loan for the 2015/16 season to the Turkish Süper Lig at Trabzonspor .

Olympiacos Piraeus

In August 2016 Marin was signed by Olympiacos Piraeus . His debut on September 11, 2016 in a 6-1 home win over Veria FC lasted 70 minutes. He scored his first goal on January 4, 2017 with the 2-1 winning goal in stoppage time in the home game against Asteras Tripoli . Marin finished the 2016/17 season with four goals in 14 appearances and won the Greek championship with his team.

Red Star Belgrade

In August 2018, the Serbian first division club and record champions Red Star Belgrade Marin signed a free transfer. He received a contract that runs until June 2020. On matchday two of the 2018/19 Champions League , he scored the first goal for Red Star in the Champions League in a 6-1 draw against Paris Saint-Germain . With the club he was able to win the national championship in his first season . Due to his good performance, his contract was prematurely extended by one year. In the European Cup, Belgrade and Marin did not manage to get beyond the group stages.

al-Ahli (Saudi Arabia)

After 58 competitive games for Belgrade in the league, cup and Champions League, in which the midfielder contributed 11 goals and 24 assists, he moved to the Saudi Arabian first division club al-Ahli SC at the beginning of January 2020 .

National team

Since Marin's birthplace is in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina , he had dual citizenship until the end of January 2008 and would also have been eligible to play for Bosnian national teams. However, he decided on the DFB . There he went through all youth national teams up to the U18 selection , in which he was one of the top performers. Then he skipped the next two age groups and was used on August 21, 2007 against Ireland for the first time in the U21 .

In February 2007, Marin was nominated alongside Björn Kopplin from FC Bayern Munich II and Manuel Fischer from VfB Stuttgart as one of three Germans for the UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup , in which a European and an African U18 team competed against each other. Here he was one of the top performers of the European selection, which prevailed against the African selection on February 27, 2007 with 6: 1 and on March 1, 2007 with 4: 0.

Marko Marin was appointed to the expanded squad for the 2008 European Championship by national coach Joachim Löw on May 16, 2008 . In the course of the EM preparations Marin played his first international match against Belarus on May 27, 2008 in Kaiserslautern . The next day Löw announced that Marin would not be part of the German EM squad.

On August 20, 2008, he scored his first international goal in a test international against the selection of Belgium , his second A international match, seven minutes after being substituted on. On May 6, 2010 Marin was appointed to the squad for the World Cup in South Africa. There he was used as a substitute in the 4-0 win against Australia and the 0-1 defeat in the second round match against Serbia .

titles and achievements

society

Borussia Monchengladbach

• German second division champion : 2007/08

Chelsea FC

• UEFA Europa League : 2012/13

Sevilla FC

• UEFA Europa League: 2013/14

Olympiacos Piraeus

• Greek champion : 2016/17

Red Star Belgrade

• Serbian champion : 2018/19

National team and selections

• World Championship : Third place 2010
• U-21 European Championship : 2009
• UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup : 2007 (European selection)

Awards

On August 18, 2006 Marin was awarded the silver Fritz Walter Medal by the DFB . On September 12, 2007 he was presented with the same gold award. In March 2010 he was voted Footballer of the Month . In October 2010 he and the other German national players received the Silver Laurel Leaf from the then Federal President Christian Wulff for the performance of the national team at the 2010 World Cup. In the 2018/2019 season, as a player for Red Star Belgrade, he was named Player of the Year in the Serbian Super league chosen.

Style of play

Marin is a trained playmaker, but is mainly used in the left midfield . Above all, his good ball handling in the game "One against One" is praised. Because of his ball safety, his high speed with or without the ball on his foot and his ability to dribble, but not least because of his small body size, he was partly referred to as German Messi in the English media before his transfer to Chelsea , based on the Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi , called.

Web links

Commons : Marko Marin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of Marko Marin
• Marko Marin in the database of weltfussball.de
• Marko Marin in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.stern.de/sport/fussball/marko-marin-schutz-fuer-den-schelm-657656.html
2. ↑ Quotes - Quote 5 - WM 2010: Reactions to the group draw. In: Spiegel Online photo gallery. December 4, 2009, accessed June 9, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Marko Marin in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
4. ^ Werder Bremen: Marko Marin before moving to Chelsea. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. April 28, 2012, accessed November 18, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Marko Marin changes to FC Chelsea ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ chelseafc.com: Marin Loan Agreed ( memento of June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), June 28, 2013
7. ↑ t-online.de: Sevilla wins Europa League after penalty crime ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 15, 2014
8. ↑ chelseafc.com: Fiorentina move for Marin , accessed August 18, 2014
9. ↑ Chelsea FC: Marin moves on loan , August 25, 2015, accessed August 25, 2015.
10. ↑ Marin moves on chelseafc.com, accessed August 23, 2016
11. ↑ Marin and Olympiakos: After the championship, the cup. In: kicker.de. Kicker Online , April 26, 2017, accessed May 22, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Super League - Olympiacos Piraeus / Squad. In: kicker.de. Kicker Online , accessed on May 22, 2017 . 
13. ↑ The European trip continues: Red Star Belgrade signs Marin from Piraeus . ( transfermarkt.de [accessed September 1, 2018]).
14. ↑ Master with Red Star , report on welt.de from May 6, 2019, accessed on May 7, 2019
15. ↑ Next station: Marin moves to Saudi Arabia , welt.de, accessed on January 5, 2020
16. ↑ kicker.de: Marin voted Player of the Year. Retrieved May 29, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Focus Online: Advance praise from Chelsea FC - Independent: "Marko Marin is the German Messi" , accessed on April 29, 2012.