Maker Marial Maker (born 1 July 1997) is a South Sudanese

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as a defender or

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

Dandenong Thunder Dandenong Thunder SC is a soccer club from Dandenong, a suburb in the South-East region of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. They are an Albanian Australian-backed club. Thunder compete in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. In 2012, Dandeno ...

Career

Maker started his career with Australian eighth division side Truganina Hornets. Before the 2016 season, he signed for

South Melbourne South Melbourne is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 3 km south of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip Local government ...

in the Australian second tier. Before the 2018 season, Maker signed for Australian third tier club

Melbourne Victory Youth Melbourne Victory Football Club Youth is the youth system of Melbourne Victory based in Melbourne, Victoria. The team plays in the National Premier Leagues, the second level of Australia's soccer pyramid in Australia. The club also competes in ...

. Before the 2019 season, he signed for

Port Melbourne Sharks Port Melbourne SC is an Australian soccer club based in Port Melbourne, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club was formed in 1968 by local Greek Australians, and was promoted over the years to the Victorian Premier League in 1994. It spent th ...

in the Australian second tier. Before the second half of 2020–21, he signed for Spanish fourth tier team Fuenlabrada Promesas. In 2021, Maker signed for Atmosfera in the Lithuanian second tier. Before the 2022 season, he signed for Australian second tier outfit

Personal life

He is the cousin of professional basketball players

Matur Maker Matur Marial Maker (born 1 January 1998) is a South Sudanese-born Australian basketball player who last played for the Canterbury Rams of the New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL). He moved to Australia in his childhood and played for ...

and

Makur Maker Makur Maker (born 4 November 2000) is a South Sudanese-Australian professional basketball player for the Capital City Go-Go of the NBA G League. A consensus five-star recruit, he committed to play college basketball for Howard University, becom ...

, and the younger brother of professional basketball player

Thon Maker Thon Marial Maker (born 25 February 1997) is a South Sudanese-Australian professional basketball player for the Fujian Sturgeons of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He attended high school at Orangeville District Secondary School and p ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maker, Maker 1997 births Association football defenders Association football midfielders Dandenong Thunder SC players Expatriate footballers in Lithuania Expatriate footballers in Spain I Lyga players Living people National Premier Leagues players Port Melbourne SC players South Melbourne FC players South Sudanese expatriate footballers South Sudanese footballers South Sudan international footballers Victorian Premier League players