Michael Marrone (footballer)
Encyclopedia
Michael Marrone is an Australia
n football (soccer) player who currently plays for Melbourne Heart.
fifth-placed match against Al-Ahly
. He came off the bench in the 54th minute to replace Daniel Mullen
.
On 25 January 2009, he made his A-League debut for Adelaide United against the .
On 3 March 2009, Marrone was signed to a full senior contract for Adelaide after having played for their youth squad. He played 26 games for Adelaide United before signing with the new team the Melbourne Heart.
On 30 April 2010, it was announced that Marrone had signed with new A-League club for two years. He has played regularly at right back for the new club, and missed only one game in their inaugural season, which was the third Melbourne derby
. In the fourth round of the season, he scored an own goal for Heart, in a match which was to end up a 2-2 draw with Perth Glory.
After the end of his first season with Melbourne Heart, Marrone traveled to the United Kingdom
to partake in trials with British clubs Queens Park Rangers
, Charlton Athletic
and Celtic
, and also played in a friendly match for Leicester City
against West Bromwich Albion
on 24 March 2011. He has now attracted interest from Italian Serie A
side Cagliari
.
1 - includes A-League
final series statistics
2 - includes AFC Champions League
statistics; statistics included in season commencing after group stages (i.e. 2008 ACL in 2008-09 A-League season etc.)
3 - includes FIFA Club World Cup
statistics
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n football (soccer) player who currently plays for Melbourne Heart.
Club career
Marrone made his professional debut on 18 December 2008 in the FIFA Club World Cup2008 FIFA Club World Cup
-Play-off for Quarter-finals:-Quarter-finals:-----Semi-finals:-----Match for fifth place:-Match for third place:-Final:-Scorers:3 goals Wayne Rooney...
fifth-placed match against Al-Ahly
Al-Ahly
Al-Ahly Sports Club , commonly known as simply Al-Ahly, is an Egyptian sporting club. Founded in April 1907, Al-Ahly was named in 2000 by the Confederation of African Football as the "African Club of the Century"...
. He came off the bench in the 54th minute to replace Daniel Mullen
Daniel Mullen (footballer)
Daniel John Mullen is an Australian football Defender who currently plays for in the Hyundai A-League. His natural position is at centre back but he plays regularly at right back at club level....
.
On 25 January 2009, he made his A-League debut for Adelaide United against the .
On 3 March 2009, Marrone was signed to a full senior contract for Adelaide after having played for their youth squad. He played 26 games for Adelaide United before signing with the new team the Melbourne Heart.
On 30 April 2010, it was announced that Marrone had signed with new A-League club for two years. He has played regularly at right back for the new club, and missed only one game in their inaugural season, which was the third Melbourne derby
Melbourne derby
The Melbourne Derby is currently the only intra-city local derby in Australia's premier Association football competition, the A-League, between the two Melbourne teams in the competition, Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Heart. It is the A-League's first intra-city derby, and although only one...
. In the fourth round of the season, he scored an own goal for Heart, in a match which was to end up a 2-2 draw with Perth Glory.
After the end of his first season with Melbourne Heart, Marrone traveled to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
to partake in trials with British clubs Queens Park Rangers
Queens Park Rangers F.C.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in White City, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years...
, Charlton Athletic
Charlton Athletic F.C.
Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...
and Celtic
Celtic F.C.
Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...
, and also played in a friendly match for Leicester City
Leicester City F.C.
Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...
against West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion F.C.
West Bromwich Albion Football Club, also known as West Brom, The Baggies, The Throstles, Albion or WBA, are an English Premier League association football club based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands...
on 24 March 2011. He has now attracted interest from Italian Serie A
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
side Cagliari
Cagliari Calcio
Cagliari Calcio is an Italian football club based in Cagliari, Sardinia. The club was formed in 1920 and currently plays in Italian Serie A, having spent a large part of recent years mainly in Serie A and Serie B....
.
International career
He received his first call-up for the full national team by coach Pim Verbeek in preparation for the match against Indonesia in Brisbane on March 3, 2010.Career statistics
| Club | Season | League1 | Continental2 | International3 | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| 2008–09 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2009–10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |
| 2010–11 2010–11 Adelaide United season The 2010–11 Adelaide United season is 's sixth A-League season. It includes the 2010–11 A-League season as well as any other competitions of the 2010–11 football season, including the 2010 AFC Champions League... |
0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| Total | 18 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 0 | |
| 2010–11 2010–11 Melbourne Heart season The 2010–11 season was 's inaugural season in the A-League. The club finished eighth on the ladder, a result not reflecting the overall success of their season, after being placed sixth on the ladder for the better part of the season.... |
29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | |
| Total | 47 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 55 | 0 | |
1 - includes A-League
A-League
The A-League is the top Australasian professional football league. Run by Australian governing body Football Federation Australia , it was founded in 2004 following the folding of the National Soccer League and staged its inaugural season in 2005–06. It is sponsored by Hyundai Motor Company...
final series statistics
2 - includes AFC Champions League
AFC Champions League
The AFC Champions League is the premier Asian club football competition hosted annually by Asian Football Confederation . The tournament is contested among the top thirty-two clubs from the top 10 Asian leagues, two of which must qualify through the playoffs...
statistics; statistics included in season commencing after group stages (i.e. 2008 ACL in 2008-09 A-League season etc.)
3 - includes FIFA Club World Cup
FIFA Club World Cup
The FIFA Club World Cup is a football competition between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations.The first FIFA Club World Championship took place in Brazil in January 2000...
statistics