Marko Trojak

Marko Trojak
Personal information
Date of birth	28 March 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth	Varaždin, Croatia
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
2004–2006	Varteks
Senior career*
Years	Team
2007–2008	Varteks
2007	→ Sloboda Tužno (loan)
2008	→ Sloboda Varaždin (loan)
2008–2009	Virovitica
2009–2010	Drava Ptuj
2010–2011	Lokomotiva Zagreb
2011–2012	Varaždin
2012–2013	Zelina
2014	SV Rödinghausen
2014–2015	SV Marsch Neuberg
2016	Istra 1961
2017–2018	Brežice
2018–2019	Međimurje
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 January 2023

Marko Trojak (born 28 March 1988 in Varaždin) is a Croatian retired football midfielder.

Club career

Trojak went through the ranks of his hometown club Varteks's academy, but left the club without debuting for the first team in 2008 after a year and a half on loan to his club's feeder teams. His next club would be third-tier NK Virovitica, before experiencing first-tier football in Slovenia, having joined the ailing NK Drava Ptuj following a trial.^[1] In 2010, he moved back to Croatia, joining NK Lokomotiva, and, in April 2011, helped inflict his former club (which had changed its name from Varteks to NK Varaždin) their first loss on home turf after over a year, by assisting Nino Bule for the sole goal of the match.^[2] He went on to rejoin Varaždin that summer, participating in the club's Europa League qualifications campaign which was narrowly ended by Dinamo Bucharest with 4-3 aggregate,^[3] but would feature in only 6 league matches before the club was expelled from Croatia's top league, Prva HNL,^[4] and subsequently folded. After a season at second-tier NK Zelina, Trojak spent most of the next two and a half years two lower-tier Austrian^[5] and German clubs. In the 2015/16 winter transfer period he returned to Prva HNL football after going on trial with NK Istra 1961^[6] and passing.

References

^ Drava med razpadom sistema in preporodom at RTV Slo
^ VŽ nogometaši poraženi doma nakon više od godinu dana at eVaraždin
^ Varaždin na korak do čuda: Momčad Samira Toplaka može biti ponosna!
^ Varaždin izbačen iz prve lige at HRT.hr
^ Austrian career stats - ÖFB
^ Marko Trojak na probi u Istri 1961 at Regional Express

External links

Marko Trojak at Soccerway.com
Marko Trojak at kicker (in German)
Marko Trojak at FBref.com
Marko Trojak at the Croatian Football Federation

[1] Drava med razpadom sistema in preporodom at RTV Slo

[2] VŽ nogometaši poraženi doma nakon više od godinu dana at eVaraždin

[3] Varaždin na korak do čuda: Momčad Samira Toplaka može biti ponosna!

[4] Varaždin izbačen iz prve lige at HRT.hr

[5] Austrian career stats - ÖFB

[6] Marko Trojak na probi u Istri 1961 at Regional Express

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