Marko Marin
Marko Marin in 2009
Marko Marin ( born March 13, 1989 in Bosanska Gradiška, SFR Yugoslavia ) is a German football player.
Life
As Marko Marin was two years old, wandered his Serbian origin parents to Germany. His father Ranko used to play football and even worked as a talent scout at Borussia Moenchengladbach and Werder Bremen. Marko Marin grew up in Frankfurt- Unterliederbach, where his parents still live today.
Marin first attended the Leibniz -Gymnasium in Frankfurt- Höchst and later the high school at Geroweiher in Mönchengladbach, where he completed his education in 2007 with the diploma.
Club career
Youth / Amateur
Marko Marin began at SG 01 Höchst with the football games. Later he played in the youth of Eintracht Frankfurt, which he left at the beginning of the season 2005/ 06 in the direction of Borussia Mönchengladbach. Quick there, he managed to jump into the squad of the second team, where he was a key player soon.
Professional
Borussia Mönchengladbach
After a ride with the pros had been prevented from training camp due to illness, he trained after the winter break sporadically in the pros. For the game on 31 March 2007 against his former club Eintracht Frankfurt he was appointed coach Jos Luhukay first time in the Bundesliga squad. In this game, he came on in the 63rd minute; he had a free kick template by Federico Insúa led to a 1-1 draw.
On 13 June 2007 Marin signed a professional contract until June 30, 2010 at Borussia. From this time on he was an integral part of the Gladbach professional squad. His first two league goals for Borussia he scored 13 April 2008 in a 3-0 home victory over SpVgg Greuther Fürth. He also drove in the 2007/ 08 season with a total of 13 assists and was therefore one of the most successful Torvorbereitern the 2nd league. At the end of the season with Borussia Mönchengladbach Marin managed the chances of promotion to the 1st League in which he was one of the most important Torvorlagengeber the team again.
Werder Bremen
For the season 2009/10 Marin moved to Werder Bremen, where he received the return number 10. The transfer fee was 8.2 million euros. There he took immediate foot and was a regular player. In the first 15 competitive matches of the season ( nine league cup twice, four times Europa League ) Marin was 15 - times used. His frequent substitutions were due to the largely missed preparation. He was with the U -21 in action and injured at the end of the tournament, so he had to take a three-week enforced break.
Chelsea FC
For the season 2012/13 moved to Marin Chelsea. Initially he played no role under Roberto Di Matteo and had come only once in the League Cup and twice in the U -21 is used, he graduated on 28 November 2012, under new coach Rafael Benítez his Premier League debut. In the goalless draw against Fulham he came on in the 82nd minute for Eden Hazard. His first goal for Chelsea, he scored on 9 February 2013 at Stamford Bridge after coming off the bench against Wigan Athletic in a 4-1 draw.
Sevilla FC
For the 2013/14 season on loan Marin moved in the Primera División for Sevilla FC.
National
As Marin's birthplace in Bosnia and Herzegovina is, he had until the end of January 2008, the dual citizenship and would have been eligible to play for Bosnian national teams. However, he opted for the DFB. There he went through all the national youth teams up to U 18, where he was among the top performers. He then skipped the next two selections and was used on 21 August 2007 against Ireland for the first time in the U-21 national team.
In February 2007, Marin was next to Björn Kopplin FC Bayern Munich II and Manuel Fischer from VfB Stuttgart as one of three German for the UEFA CAF Meridian Cup, at the start of a European and an African U-18 team against each other nominated. Here he was among the top performers of the European team that prevailed over the African selection on February 27, 2007, 6:1, and on 1 March 2007 4-0.
Marko Marin was appointed by national coach Joachim Loew on 16 May 2008 in the extended squad for the 2008 European Championship. As part of the EM Marin preparation denied on 27 May 2008 in Kaiserslautern his first international match against Belarus. The day after Loew announced that Marin would not belong to the German Championship squad.
On 20 August 2008 he scored in a friendly match against Belgium, his second senior international, seven minutes after coming on his first goal for the DFB team. On 6 May 2010 Marin was appointed to the squad for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. There he came in a 4-0 win against Australia and in the 0-1 defeat in the second round match against Serbia as a substitute for use.
Play
Marin is a skilled playmaker, currently he is but used primarily in left midfield. Blessed is above all his good ball handling in the game " one on one ". Because of his ball security, its high speed, with or without ball at his feet and his dribbling skills, but not least because of its small body size, it was mainly in the English media before his transfer to Chelsea as German Messi, on the basis of the Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi referred to.
Achievements
- Europa League winner: 2013
- Third in the World Cup 2010
- U- 21 European Champion 2009
On 18 August 2006 Marin was awarded by the DFB the silver Fritz Walter medal. On 12 September 2007 it the same award was presented in gold. In March 2010, he was voted Player of the Month. In October 2010, he shared with the other German internationals, the Silver Laurel Leaf by the then Federal President Christian Wulff for the performance of the national team at the 2010 World Cup.