Mario Sačer

Mario Sačer

Personal information
Full name	Mario Sačer
Date of birth	(1990-01-17) 17 January 1990
Place of birth	Varaždin, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Forward, Winger
Team information
Current team	Draskovec
Youth career
1996–1998	Drava Sveti Đurđ
1998–2000	Podravina
2000–2009	Varteks
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2009	Varteks	2	(0)
2009–2012	Hajduk Split	2	(0)
2010	→ Varteks (loan)	22	(2)
2011–2012	→ Varaždin (loan)	20	(1)
2012–2013	Mura 05	20	(2)
2013	Istra 1961	11	(0)
2014	Partizani	11	(1)
2014	Podravina	13	(5)
2015	Međimurje	9	(6)
2016	Velika Polana	12	(8)
2016–2017	Dugopolje	28	(7)
2017–2018	Varaždin	37	(7)
2019	Koper
2019	Tehnicar
2020-2021	Trofaiach	10	(10)
2022	Podravina
2022-	Draskovec
International career
2004–2005	Croatia U15	1	(0)
2005–2006	Croatia U16	13	(4)
2006–2007	Croatia U17	10	(4)
2007–2008	Croatia U18	4	(0)
2009–2010	Croatia U20	1	(0)
2010–2011	Croatia U21	2	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 December 2018

Mario Sačer (born 17 November 1990 in Varaždin) is a Croatian football striker who plays for Draskovec after spending several seasons at NK Varaždin.

Career

Sačer started playing football at 6 years of age for his hometown club Drava Sveti Đurđ, moving soon to Podravina in nearby Ludbreg and finally joining the youth ranks of Varteks in 2000. He came into the spotlight playing for the Varteks U-19 team, when he was named the best player and scorer of the Prva HNL Academy for the 2008–2009 season, amassing an impressive tally of 32 goals and 14 assists in 30 games, 11 goals more than the runners-up Andrej Kramarić and Valentino Stepčić. He made his first team debut for Varteks in May 2009, entering for the last 8 minutes in the game versus Osijek.

He joined the ranks of Hajduk Split, of which he stated to be an avid fan, in late June 2009. Not breaking through initially to the first team, he was sent on loan back to Varteks during the winter transfer season, losing, however, his place in the team in mid-March, due to the dispute of his two clubs regarding the transfer fee, but returning to the first team in May, scoring two goals in the last three games of the season. He remained on loan with his hometown club, which had changed its name from NK Varteks to NK Varaždin, for the first half of the 2010–11 season, finding his position moved more and more moved to the right wing, and unable to regain his scoring streak. Returning to Hajduk Split, he was again sidelined, playing in only two games, one of which was 90 minutes against his former club. The following summer, he was again sent on loan to Varaždin for the 2011–12 season. After a series of moves, he returned to his hometown in 2017, playing for the new NK Varaždin, unassociated with the club he played with at the start of his career, which folded in 2015.

He had a spell at Austrian lower league side FC Trofaiach during the COVID-19 year.

External links

• Mario Sačer at the Croatian Football Federation
• Mario Sačer at FBref.com
• Mario Sačer at Soccerway.com
• Mario Sačer at WorldFootball.net