Mario Musa (; born 6 July 1990) is a Croatian professional

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who plays as a

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Club career

Born in

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, Musa started playing football at his local

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from

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. After seven years at the club, he moved to

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's academy at Posavina Zagreb and subsequently

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, before joining the

Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb (), commonly referred to as simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Cr ...

academy in 2007.Musa ponovno u Dinamu
at NogometPlus Following his youth career Musa became a part of a series of loans and transfers between Dinamo Zagreb and

Lokomotiva Zagreb Nogometni klub Lokomotiva Zagreb (), commonly known as Lokomotiva Zagreb or simply Lokomotiva, is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. It competes in the Croatian First Football League, the country's top division. Founded in 1 ...

, playing for Lokomotiva in the

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, but going on loans from Dinamo Zagreb or joining Lokomotiva on free transfers and returning, depending on loaned player quotas between the two clubs. In January 2015, he returned to Dinamo Zagreb, but suffered an injury during training. He would go on to feature 17 times for the first team, scoring one goal, before being loaned on again, this time abroad, to

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. He did not remain in Israel, however, but moved to Sweden, again on loan, in early 2017, signing for

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. He would go on to feature only twice for the Swedish club before returning to Croatia. Two more loan spells at Lokomotiva followed, with Zagreb pulling him back from his planned 2018–19 loan after only one month, in mid-August 2018, in need of a left-back to serve as alternate for

Marin Leovac Marin Leovac (; born 7 August 1988) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a left back for NK Lokomotiva Zagreb, Lokomotiva. Early career Leovac began his career in July 1997 in Austria with Sportunion Aschbach and signed in March ...

International career

Musa featured in the Croatian under-21 team in 2011.Mario Musa
at HNS-CFF

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Musa, Mario 1990 births Living people Footballers from Zagreb Croatian men's footballers 21st-century Croatian sportsmen Men's association football fullbacks Croatia men's youth international footballers Croatia men's under-21 international footballers Croatian expatriate men's footballers NK Lokomotiva Zagreb players GNK Dinamo Zagreb players GNK Dinamo Zagreb II players Maccabi Haifa F.C. players Hammarby Fotboll players NK Aluminij players Croatian Football League players First Football League (Croatia) players Israeli Premier League players Allsvenskan players Slovenian PrvaLiga players Expatriate men's footballers in Israel Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia