Marko Kvasina

Marko Kvasina
Marko Kvasina (2015)
Personnel
birthday	December 20, 1996
place of birth	Vienna ,  Austria
size	194 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
2002-2011	First Vienna FC
2011-2014	FK Austria Vienna
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2014-2017	FK Austria Vienna II	57 (23)
2014-2017	FK Austria Vienna	36 0(3)
2017-2018	FC Twente Enschede	13 0(0)
2017-2018	FC Twente Enschede II	5 0(1)
2018-2020	SV Mattersburg	43 0(8)
2020–	KV Ostend	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2013	Austria U-17	5 0(1)
2014	Austria U-18	2 0(0)
2014-2015	Austria U-19	10 0(8)
2015-2019	Austria U-21	27 0(4)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 8, 2020 2 As of June 20, 2019

Marko Kvasina (born December 20, 1996 in Vienna ) is an Austrian football player of Croatian descent.

Career

society

Career start in Vienna

Kvasina started his career at First Vienna FC . For the 2011/12 season he came to the academy of FK Austria Vienna . He took part in the UEFA Youth League with the U-19 team of Austria in the 2013/14 season . With the team he was eliminated in the round of 16 against Benfica Lisbon , Kvasina made four appearances in the Youth League and scored one goal.

In March 2014 he made his debut for the amateurs of Austria in the Regionalliga when he was in the starting line-up against the amateurs of SV Mattersburg on matchday 16 of the 2013/14 season . In the same month he scored his first goal in the third-highest division in a 6-0 win against ATSV Ober-Grafendorf . In May 2014, a 3-3 draw against the Vienna Sports Club was followed by his first double for the "Jungveilchen". By the end of the season he had completed 14 regional league games, in which he scored six goals.

In October 2014 he was against SC Wiener Neustadt for the first time in the squad of the professionals of Austria. He made his Bundesliga debut the following month when he came on as a substitute for Mario Leitgeb on matchday 16 of the 2014/15 season against FC Admira Wacker Mödling in the 77th minute . In his second appearance in December 2014 against SV Grödig , he scored his first Bundesliga goal with the goal to make it 1-0. In February 2015 he started against SCR Altach for the first time before he was replaced by Alexander Grünwald in the 71st minute . By the end of the season he made 17 Bundesliga appearances in which he scored three goals. He also played 16 games for the amateurs in the Regionalliga and scored eight goals.

In the 2015/16 season, Kvasina only made three appearances in the Bundesliga and played more for the amateurs, for whom he scored nine goals in 24 regional league games. In the 2016/17 season he was able to prevail with Austria in qualifying for the UEFA Europa League against FK Kukësi , Spartak Trnava and Rosenborg Trondheim and thus qualify for the main round. Kvasina made three appearances as a substitute during qualification, in the second leg against Trnava he prepared Kevin Friesenbichler's decisive goal to make it 1-0, which brought Austria into extra time. In the main round, Kvasina made a brief appearance in the last game against Viktoria Pilsen , with Austria he was eliminated in the group stage. In the league he remained goalless in 16 games, for the regional league team he came to three missions.

At FC Twente in the Eredivisie

In July 2017 he moved to the Netherlands for FC Twente Enschede , with whom he received a contract valid until June 2021. He made his debut in the Eredivisie in August 2017 when he started against Feyenoord Rotterdam on matchday one of the 2017/18 season and was replaced by Tom Boere in the 86th minute . After starting the game three times in the first four days of play, he barely got any playing time from then on, his longest appearance should last 26 minutes. So he came to the end of the season to 13 missions, where he was substituted on ten times, and remained without a goal. He also made five appearances for the reserve of Twente in the fourth-class Derde Divisie . With the first team he had to relegate from the top division at the end of the season.

Back in the Bundesliga

Kvasina then returned to Austria for the 2018/19 season and moved to SV Mattersburg , where he received a contract that ran until June 2020. For Burgenland, he scored two goals on his debut in the first round match in the ÖFB Cup against USV Allerheiligen . Also in the league scored a goal in the 3-2 win against SCR Altach in his first appearance for Mattersburg in the Bundesliga. During the 2018/19 season he commuted between the starting line-up and the bench at Mattersburg; at the end of the season he had 24 appearances in which he scored six goals, 15 times he was in the starting line-up. In the 2019/20 season he was hardly in the starting line-up under the new coach Franz Ponweiser . After the league interruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic , he was no longer in the matchday squad.

A second time abroad

For this reason, he left Mattersburg after his contract ended after the 2019/20 season and moved to Belgium to KV Ostend , where he received a contract that ran until June 2023.

National team

Kvasina played against Italy for the first time for the Austrian U-17 team in August 2013 and was able to score his first goal in the national dress in the game that Austria won 2-1. With Austria's U-17 team, he also took part in the World Cup in the United Arab Emirates in the same year , where they were the last in Group E to be eliminated in the preliminary round. Kvasina was used during the tournament.

In 2014 he played two games for the U-18 team . In September 2014, he made his first appearance for the U-19 team against Switzerland . In 2015 he took part in the European Championships with the U-19 team , where they were eliminated as third in Group A in the preliminary round. Kvasina played the full distance in all three Austrian games and scored both of his country's goals in the tournament in a 2-2 draw against Ukraine in the last group game .

In November 2015 he made his debut against Germany for the U-21 team . After failing to qualify for the European Championship in the playoff against Spain in 2016 , Kvasina qualified for the U21 European Championship for the first time in history with the Austrian U-21 team in November 2019 after winning the playoff against Greece . For the tournament in June 2019, he was also taken into account and was used; However, Austria was eliminated as third in Group B in the group stage. This also ended Kvasina's career in the U-21 team, for which he completed a total of 27 games; only four players were used more often.

Web links

Commons : Marko Kvasina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marko Kvasina in the database of weltfussball.de
• Marko Kvasina in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Marko Kvasina in the ÖFB database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A teenager saves Austria kurier.at, on December 13, 2014, accessed on June 21, 2020
2. ↑ Marko Kvasina naar FC Twente fctwente.nl, on July 13, 2017, accessed on July 13, 2017
3. ↑ Transfernews from SVM svm.at, on May 28, 2018, accessed on May 28, 2018
4. ↑ Marko Kvasina nieuwe spits! kvo.be, June 20, 2020, accessed June 20, 2020
5. ↑ Record national player Austria U-21 transfermarkt.at, accessed on June 21, 2020