Marco Djuricin

Marco Djuricin (Marko Đuričin, Марко Ђуричин; born 12 December 1992) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Slovak First League club Spartak Trnava, on loan from Croatian First League club Rijeka.

A forward, Djuricin began his career with SV Donau in 1999, before have alternate spells with Rapid Wien and Austria Wien.

After a short spell with FC Stadlau in 2008, he moved to Germany to enter the youth academy at Bundesliga club Hertha BSC.

During the 2009–10 season, Hertha's U19 team reached the final of the DFB Youth Cup, but despite Djuricin's equaliser, Hertha lost the match 2–1 to 1899 Hoffenheim.

During the 2010–11 pre-season, Djuricin was called up to the first team's training camp in his native Austria.

Coach Markus Babbel was impressed by his performance during the camp and called in him up for Hertha's remaining pre-season friendlies.

Djuricin made his debut for Hertha's reserve team in a 2–2 Regionalliga Nord draw with Hallescher FC on 6 August 2010.

Following injuries to Patrick Ebert, Raffael and Daniel Beichler, Djuricin received his maiden first team call up on the opening day of the 2010–11 2. Bundesliga season against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.

He made his debut after just 18 minutes as a substitute for Rob Friend.

Djuricin had a dream debut, scoring two second-half goals to help Hertha to a 3–2 win.

He signed a new four-year contract shortly after the match.

Djuricin went on to make 9 appearances during a successful 2010–11 season for Hertha, which saw the club promoted back to the Bundesliga at the first time of asking.

Djuricin spent the majority of the 2011–12 Bundesliga season with the reserves, scoring 9 goals in 16 appearances.

He made two first team substitute appearances in early 2012 and was on the bench for both of Hertha's relegation playoff matches, which were lost to Fortuna Düsseldorf and consigned the club to relegation straight back to the 2.

Bundesliga.

During the 2012 off-season, new Hertha manager Jos Luhukay announced that Djuricin was not in his first team plans.

On 9 August 2012, Djuricin joined 2.

Bundesliga club Jahn Regensburg on loan for the duration of the 2012–13 season.

He missed two months of the campaign with a broken sesamoid in his foot and made 17 appearances and scored three goals in a dire season for the Jahn, with a bottom-place finish consigning the club to relegation to the 3. Liga.

Djuricin departed Hertha in June 2013 and made just 11 appearances and scored two goals in three seasons as a first team player at the Olympiastadion.

Djuricin returned to Austria to sign a contract with Austrian Bundesliga club Sturm Graz in June 2013.

He made his debut in a 0–0 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round draw with Breiðablik on 18 July 2013, the first European appearance of his career.

After just two further appearances, a cruciate ligament injury saw Djuricin fail to return to the team until December.

He finished the 2013–14 season with 23 appearances and seven goals.

He scored just three goals in 16 appearances in the second half of the 2014–15 season, but received the first silverware of his career when Salzburg won the league title at the end of the campaign.

Djuricin came to prominence in his native Austria with Sturm Graz, scoring 24 goals in 44 appearances, before joining Red Bull Salzburg in 2015.

He has since played professionally in Germany, England, Hungary, Switzerland, Croatia and Slovakia.

Djuricin has been capped by Austria at international level.

Djuricin showed good goalscoring form in the first half of the 2014–15 season, scoring 17 goals in 21 games before departing the UPC-Arena on 8 January 2015.

He made 44 appearances and scored 24 goals during 18 months with Graz.

On 8 January 2015, Djuricin signed a 3 1⁄2-year contract with Austrian Bundesliga club Red Bull Salzburg.

He collected another medal by virtue of being an unused substitute in Salzburg's 2–0 victory over Austria Wien in the 2015 ÖFB Cup Final.

After four appearances early in the 2015–16 season, Djuricin moved to England to sign for Championship club Brentford on loan until the end of the 2015–16 season.

He scored within 29 minutes of his debut in a 1–1 draw with against Leeds United on 12 September and made it two goals in three games with the winner versus Preston North End one week later.

He came into form again in late October, scoring twice in three matches in wins versus Wolverhampton Wanderers and West London rivals Queens Park Rangers, the latter match being Brentford's first win over QPR for 50 years.

An ankle ligament injury suffered early in a 1–1 draw with Blackburn Rovers on 7 November kept Djuricin out of the team for two months.

He returned to the bench in mid-January 2016 and broke back into the starting lineup in late February, but was sidelined due to illness in March.

Djuricin made just two further appearances and finished the season with 4 goals from 23 appearances.

On 23 June 2016, Djuricin joined Nemzeti Bajnokság I club Ferencváros on loan for the duration of the 2016–17 season.

He made 30 appearances and scored 10 goals during the season, but was left out of the matchday squad which emerged victorious in the 2017 Magyar Kupa Final.