Marko Meerits

Marko Meerits 2013

Marko Meerits ( born April 26, 1992, Tallinn) is an Estonian football player. The playing on the position of the goalkeeper is Meerits since July 2011 Vitesse Arnhem in the Dutch Eredivisie under contract.

Career

Association

Marko Meerits played in the youth of the FC Flora Tallinn. At the age of 16, he was transferred for a season to FC Valga Warrior from the second-rate Esiliiga, where he played his first season at senior level. At the club from Valga, which is located directly on the Latvian- Estonian border, he came to three games. In 2009, the tall goalkeeper returned to the Estonian record holder, in which he came to operations in the second team. In the 2010 season he was pulled under coach Martin Reim in the first team where he made his first competitive games in the Meistriliiga; at the end of the season he was champion for the first time in his home country. Marko Meerits rotated at FC Flora with Stanislav Pedok the gate of the capital clubs; However, he was, for example, in the Europa League 2010/11 season in the first leg against Dinamo Tbilisi in the domestic A. Le Coq Arena in goal in the second leg in Georgia Pedok. In the Estonian Super Cup 2011 match against city rivals Levadia Tallinn Meerits stood between the posts and was able to parry two penalties in the penalty shootout there.

In summer 2011, the talent from Estonia signed a contract until 2014 at Vitesse Arnhem in the Netherlands. He made his debut for the team from Arnhem on Matchday 1 of the 2011/12 season against ADO Den Haag. In February 2013 were Meerits, who had graduated from the Arnhem until this time four games in the Eredivisie, FC Flora awarded for five months at his former home club from Tallinn since he had no use under the new Vitesse coach Fred Rutten. For the new season 2013/14 Meerits returned back to Arnhem, after he came on 14 campaigns at Flora in the first half of the season.

National

For Estonia, he has been playing for the U-17, for the A- team, he was first appointed by the national coach Tarmo Rüütli for the friendlies against China and Qatar in December 2010. In addition to the other two goalkeepers Artur Kotenko and Pavel Londak he had been invited as the third goalkeeper. He debuted in the very first match of the Test match against China in Zhuhai travel on December 18, when he came on as a substitute just before the game ends for Pavel Londak.

Achievements

  • Estonian champion: 2010
  • Estonian Cup Winners: 2011, 2013
  • Estonian Super Cup winner: 2011
FC Warrior Valga Valga, Estonia 2010 Meistriliiga FC Dinamo Tbilisi 2011–12 Eredivisie 2013–14 Eredivisie 2013 Meistriliiga Mike Havenaar Piet Velthuizen Jan-Arie van der Heijden Theo Janssen Patrick van Aanholt
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