Mate Males

Mate Males (Croatian pronunciation: [maːte maːleʃ]; born 11 March 1989) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder in Croatian club Lokomotiva Zagreb.

Club Career

Males started his football career with HNK Sibenik, debuting for the first team at the age of 17, on 4 August 2006 against Dinamo Zagreb. His teammates in HNK Sibenik included Ante Rukavina and Gordon Schildenfeld.

In 2007, Hajduk Split acquired Males and introduced him to their youth system. He was set to sign his first professional contract in February 2008, after a tournament in Hong Kong in which he played for the first team. Instead, he opted to sign a five-year deal with Dinamo Zagreb. After only two matches for his new team in the early stages of the 2008–09 season, he was loaned to Lokomotiva. In the summer of 2010, his contract with Dinamo was cancelled and Males signed a three-year contract with Lokomotiva. He spent one of these three seasons on loan with NK Zagreb.

Rijeka

In June 2013, Males signed a two-year deal with HNK Rijeka. He was a regular starter during his first season with the club. However, following a serious ankle injury, he had to undergo two surgeries, followed by long recovery periods. As a consequence, he did not play a single match from 26 March 2014 until 2 August 2015, in process missing the entire 2014–15 season, with the exception of one Rijeka II appearance in 3. HNL. Nevertheless, in May 2015, Rijeka renewed his contract for two years, tying him to the club until June 2017. Males scored his first ever Prva HNL goal in Rijeka's 2–1 away win against Lokomotiva on 17 October 2015. From the start of the 2016–17 season and until his departure in February 2018 Males served as the team captain.

Males was signed by Chinese Super League newcomer Dalian Yifang in February 2018. However, after Wanda Group took charge of the club at the end of February 2018 and bought Nicolas Gaitan and Yannick Carrasco from Atletico Madrid, he was excluded from the

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