Marco Djuricin

Marco Djuricin (Serbo-Croatian: Marko Duricin, Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Ђуричин; born 12 December 1992) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Austria Wien. He 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 played professionally in Austria, Germany, England, Hungary and Switzerland. He has been capped by Austria at international level.

Club Career

Hertha BSC

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.

Breakthrough

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-Weis 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 nine 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.

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