Stefan Marinovic
Stefan Tone Marinovic (born 7 October 1991 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand football player of Croatian descent.
Career
Marinovic, who later in the U -15 won the national championship in the age group U- 14 and a 2004, 2007 and 2008 belonged to the squad of the New Zealand national team and students took part in it among other things, a tour of Austria. After tryouts in 2008 at Everton, FC Zurich and FC Schalke 04 in 2009, he played in the youth team of Waitakere United, who lost the final of the national youth championship Canterbury United with 0:6. In the summer of 2009 came the graduate of Wynton Rufer Soccer School of Excellence, a company founded by former New Zealand exceptional footballer Wynton Rufer device for talent to tryouts at Hamburger SV, Werder Bremen and the Wehen to Germany and finally signed a professional contract in labor.
Marinovic was in the 2009/10 season as the third goalkeeper to the senior squad in the league and came third for the U-23 team in the Regionalliga Süd, alternating with Marc Birkenbach used. After he has been nominated several times on game days as a substitute, he came on 27 April 2010 in an away game against league leaders Erzgebirge Aue ( Full 2:2 ) to his pro debut, after Birkenbach was injured after 30 minutes and the -budgetary goalkeeper Erik Domaschke injury even was not only mitgereist. After the signing of Michael Gurski he was also in the following season, the number three and was only the second team to use. After he had remained completely in the 2011/12 season without obligation Stakes, he left contractions end of the season and went 1 February 2013 to FC Ismaning.
With the New Zealand U-20 national team Marinovic took part in the U -20 World Cup 2011 in Colombia. The keeper stood in all three tournament games in New Zealand in goal, a draw against Cameroon and Uruguay and a narrow defeat against Portugal was not enough to progress. From the FIFA Technical Study Group Marinovic was identified as " outstanding player " of his team and " strongly safer and more responsive goalkeeper on the line ," praised as.