Biography
Mario Manjucch - a football player is not perfect. He does not fit the schemes when the whole team rolls to the opponent's goal, Mario prefers to dominate the attack. At the same time demonstrates the ability to impose a fight, good speed and most importantly - the desire to win trophies.Childhood and youth
Mario by Nationality Croat, His Motherland - Yugoslavia, a large industrial center of Slavonski-Ford, where he and Sister Ivanna were born. From the circumstances of the country's war in 1992, the family moved to Germany.
The football player was the father of the boy, Michu. In a new place, he had to play football professionally to make a living. The son accompanied his father for training and gradually joined the German football school.
After Manjuki was abandoned in a residence permit, they returned to Croatia. Mario began to play for the local club "Marsonia", for which he spoke in 23 matches and scored 14 goals.
Football
The first weighty club in the career of Mario became "Zagreb", where the talented guy switched to 2005 and played 2 seasons. Manoslav Blazhevich coached Manzukich, the one who brought Croatia to the Bronze medals of the 1998 World Championship and raised Davia Shuker.
Then the Croatian "Dynamo" saw in a powerful attacker growth of 190 cm and weighing 85 kg replacement more subtitled Eduardo da Silva. As part of the Forward team, he went on the field in 112 matches, made 36 efficiencies, scored 53 goals, became the best scorer of the season and played in the Champions League. In addition, the Country Championship won three times and gained a close friend Luka Modria.
In 2010, the German "Wolfsburg" bought out Mario for € 8 million. Wolves, Croat again won the title of the best scorer and player. At the European 2012 Championship 2012, Manjucch scored the sixth goal of the goal of the Ireland national team, beat the Gianluji Buffon himself and even before the end of the tournament received an invitation to Bavaria from Holesa. According to the official website of Munichs, the transfer cost amounted to € 13 million.
Thanks to the two goals, Mario "Bavaria" won the Super Cup of Germany at the Borussia. Later, the sports biography of the football player was replenished with two titles of the Bundesliga champion, the world champion and winner of the German Cup.
Manjucich's move to Spain influenced the conflict with the coach Hosep Guardiole. The former Mentor YUPP Hyunkeez assigned Mario to the final role in the attack, and Guardiola began to rebuild the usual for the attacker in the "Tika-Taka" option. After the appearance in the team of Robert Levandowski striker and stopped feeling necessary at all. As a result, Manjucch replenished the ranks of Atletico Madrid and found complete mutual understanding with Diego Simeon.
For the Spanish club, Mario scored 20 heads in 43 matches and mined the country's supercube. In 2015, "Mattresses", despite the fact that before the end of the contract, the striker remained for another 3 years, turned out to be a choice of whom to leave in its composition - Manjucich or Antoine Grusmanna. Stopped on the second. But Croat did not stay at the skill - a children's dream came true. For € 19 million, Mario moved to Juventus.
Together with the "Old Signoroi", the Croatian footballer won three times in the Italian championship, as many times raised it over the head of the Cup of Italy, won the country's supercube and reached the Champions League final. In the final of the league striker scored the most beautiful goal of the season. The only thing that is not satisfied with Mario is the decision of Massimiliano Allegri to translate it to the left flank.
According to the edition of El Mundo Deportivo, in the "Bavarian" period negotiations with the striker agent led Barcelona. True, the Catalans invited Manzukich only as a spare player, in case of injury to their own, or to influence the "fresh blood". But the discontent footballer expressed the head coach, while the President of Bavaria was not going to put mario on the transfer at the height of the season.
And "Paris Saint-Germain" considered Croat's candidacy along with the Milanian Carlos Bakka to strengthen the attack line. But Juventus did not consider the proposal of the French, because Mario involved in the Champions League, and also broke up with Simone Zadza and Alvaro Morata, thereby weakening the attacking flank.
In 2016, London "West Ham" became interested in Manjukich. The British counted that the football player will reduce the number of playing time after "Bianconi" acquired for € 94 million Gonzalo Iguaine. Moreover, "Hamotochboats" at that moment coached the compatriot Mario Slavlin Bilic.
An athlete from the Chinese club "Tianjin Quanjian", who claimed his comrade for Nikola Kalinich's team, but received a refusal. The team of the team from the Middle Kingdom offered Mario Contract for 4 years with a salary of € 32 million.
However, Allegri had enough tact and a strategic approach to make a breakdown pair from two stranged strategic confrontation. Just Manjucich and Iguaine have different tasks. The first works "on top", and the second guard on the horizontal bounce.
Football "God" keeps Manjukich. If the injuries happened to Mario, they are not heavy, who have not exceeded for a long time. In 2017, at the Championship of the country, the striker damaged the calf muscle, in a collision with Daniele de Rossi from Roma - Spin. A year later, the thigh suffered on the same championship in training, and during the match with the Milan Interoman, Mario "sacrificed" the shin, to which 10 seams were left.
Personal life
Manjucich has an excellent sense of humor, the rejection of the press on an interview and absolute closure in everything concerned with personal life.
Mario's passion is often confused with a sister, the photo with which occasionally is published in the "Instagram" and "Twitter", the account in Facebook has no athlete. The civilian wife of a football player, similar to her, is also called the same - Ivanna. All that is known about the girl is that she is Croat.
Mario adores dogs. They said that when striker lived in Croatia, he had 6 four-legged pets at home. Now Manjucich entertains Pug nicknamed Lenny.
Mario Mandzucich now
The Croatian national team has become a real sensation at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Successfully coming out of the group, Croats were able to knock out from the playoffs on the Danes and Russians series, and also beat the British (2-1), for the first time in their history, being in the final of the Mundial.
July 15, 2018 in the "Luzhniki" the final of the World Cup was held. Mario Manjucch distinguished himself in the final of autogol, but later corrected his laughter, taking advantage of the mistake of the French goalkeeper and scoring a goal. Unfortunately, there was little time. The France national team was stronger than Croats (4-2).
Shortly before the start of the tournament in the Turkish media, information appeared that interest in the attacker "Juventus" and the Croatian national team showed "Besiktas". The Turks hoped that Mario would agree to return to the position of the Centerorreard and will push for the transition of the countryman Dario Srna, the defender of Shakhtar.
Competition "Besiktasha" is ready to compile Milan. "Red-black" choose the replacement of Nikola Kalinic.
At the end of the Mundial-2018, Manjucchi remains to decide whether to accept or not an invitation from Manchester United and change places with Matteo Darmian.
Awards
- 2008, 2009, 2010 - Champion of Croatia
- 2012 - owner of the supercube of Germany
- 2013 - UEFA Super Cup holder
- 2013, 2014 - champion and winner of the German Cup
- 2014 - Winner Super Cup of Spain
- 2015 - Winner Super Cup of Italy
- 2016, 2017, 2018 - Champion and Winner of the Cup of Italy