Marko Pjaca

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Marko Pjaca
Marko Pjaca.jpg
Marko Pjaca (2018)
Personnel
birthday May 6, 1995
place of birth Zagreb ,  Croatia
size 186 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
2004-2009 Dinamo Zagreb
2009-2010 ZET Zagreb
2010–2012 NK Lokomotiva Zagreb
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2012-2014 NK Lokomotiva Zagreb 48 0(9)
2014-2016 Dinamo Zagreb 60 (19)
2016– Juventus Turin 14 0(0)
2018 →  FC Schalke 04  (loan) 7 0(2)
2018-2019 →  Fiorentina  (loan) 19 0(1)
2020 →  RSC Anderlecht  (loan) 4 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2011 Croatia U17 8 0(1)
2012 Croatia U18 4 0(0)
2012 Croatia U19 1 0(0)
2013 Croatia U20 5 0(0)
2013-2015 Croatia U21 9 0(1)
2014– Croatia 24 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 15, 2018

Marko Pjaca [ pjatsa ] (born May 6, 1995 in Zagreb ) is a Croatian football player . The striker is under contract with Juventus Turin and is a Croatian international .

Career

societies

Pjaca began his career at Dinamo Zagreb at the age of nine and joined the youth department of NK Lokomotiva Zagreb via the ZET Zagreb station in July 2010 . There he made his debut on February 24th in a 3-0 home win against NK Zadar in the 1st HNL and moved up to the first team for the 2012/13 season . On March 15, 2013, he scored his first goal in professional football in a 4-2 away win against NK Zagreb .

For the 2014/15 season , Pjaca returned to league rivals Dinamo Zagreb, with whom he played in the Europa League that season. There he scored three goals in a 4-3 win against Celtic Glasgow on December 11, 2014 . In the league, Pjaca met eleven times in 32 games and won the championship and the Croatian Cup with the team . After successfully qualifying , the team played in the 2015/16 season in the Champions League , in which Pjaca was used in all six group games . Nationally, he again secured the double of championship and cup with Dinamo .

For the 2016/17 season , Pjaca moved to the Italian record champions Juventus Turin , with whom he signed a five-year contract. With Juventus he won the championship and the Italian Cup that season .

On January 4, 2018, Pjaca moved to Germany on loan to Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 and returned to Italy after the 2017/18 Bundesliga season . He was then awarded to the league rivals Fiorentina . In the 2019/20 season he was active again for the Italian record champions, but remained without action due to injuries. In order to gain match practice, Pjaca was awarded to RSC Anderlecht at the end of January 2020 until the end of the season. As a result of the premature termination of the season in Belgium due to the COVID-19 pandemic , he was on the pitch in four of only six possible league games. When the loan expired, he returned to Juventus Turin in July 2020.

National team

Pjaca went through from the U17 to the youth national teams of the Croatian Football Association . With the U20 selection , he took part in the U20 World Cup in Turkey in 2013 . Pjaca was used in all four games of his team and failed with her in the round of 16 with 0-2 to Chile . He played nine times for the U21 national team and scored his only goal for this selection in a 4-0 win over San Marino on November 11, 2015 .

On September 4, 2014 Pjaca made his debut as part of a friendly against Cyprus in the senior team . At the European Championships in France in 2016 he played three times and got with his team to the last sixteen , in which they lost against the eventual title holder Portugal (0: 1 aet). In the 2018 FIFA World Cup he came three times to use, reaching with his team the final in which they the French team with 2: defeated fourth

successes

Dinamo Zagreb

Juventus Turin

National team

Web links

Commons : Marko Pjaca  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pjaca signs for Juventus on the Juventus Turin website of July 21, 2016, accessed on July 21, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 1904 eV (Ed.): Marko Pjaca loaned from Juventus Turin. In: schalke04.de. January 4, 2018, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Leon Goretzka and Marko Pjaca officially adopted , kicker.de, accessed on January 31, 2020.
  4. ↑ Tweet of January 31, 2020, accessed on January 31, 2020.
  5. ↑ Kums, Nasri and Co. are no longer Anderlecht players. In: anderslecht-online.be. July 1, 2020, accessed July 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pjaca, Marko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , Croatia