Maro Bonsu-Maro
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-02-26) 26 February 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Auckland, New Zealand
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Manukau United
Youth career
0000–2014 Central United
2014–2017 Auckland City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017 Puaikura 3 (1)
2017–2018 Central United
2018 Tupapa Maraerenga
2018–2021 Auckland City 25 (7)
2021– Manukau United 30 (14)
International career‡
2013 Cook Islands U17 8 (2)
2022– Cook Islands 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 August 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:31, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Maro Bonsu-Maro (born 26 February 1997) is a Cook Islands footballer who currently plays for Manukau United and the Cook Islands national team.

Club career

Bonsu-Maro competed in the 2017 OFC Champions League with Puaikura.[1] He scored three goals in the Qualifying Stage.[2] Later that year he joined Central United of the NRFL Premier.[3] The following year he joined another Cook Islands club, Tupapa Maraerenga, and competed in the 2018 OFC Champions League.[4] He went on to score a hattrick against Veitongo of Tonga[5] and a brace against Pago Youth of American Samoa.[6] He went on to score against Papua New Guinea's Lae City in the Group Stage.[7] For the next season he joined Auckland City of the New Zealand Football Championship.[8] He remained with the club through the 2021 season when he joined Manukau United of the Cook Islands Round Cup.[9]

International

Bonsu-Maro represented the Cook Islands, the country of his mother's birth, at the youth level.[8] He was part of the squad that competed in the 2013 OFC U-17 Championship in Vanuatu.[1] He scored two goals in the team's opening match against Tonga.[10] In 2019 he was included in the under-20 squad for the 2016 OFC U-20 Championship but ultimately did not compete.[3]

In March 2022 Bonsu-Maro was included in the Cook Islands senior squad for 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification.[11]

International career statistics

Cook Islands
Year Apps Goals
2022 0 0
Total 0 0

Personal

Bonsu-Maro was born in Auckland, New Zealand to a Pukapukan mother and a Ghanaian father.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "INTERVIEW: Auckland's Maro Bonsu-Maro on adapting to a new club and playing in the OCL for three different clubs". footballoceania.com. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Bonsu-Maro returns to his roots". Oceania Football Confederation. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Five Facts to know about ACFC Forward/Winger, Maro Bonsu-Maro". Auckland Football Federation. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Bonsu-Maro, Al Kalisy happy to be Navy Blue". Auckland City FC. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Veitongo FC 2 Tupapa Maraerenga FC 9". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Pago Youth 0 Tupapa Maraerenga FC 5". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Tupapa Maraerenga FC 2 Lae City FC 7". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  8. ^ a b c "Five facts about Maro Bonsu Maro". Auckland City FC. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Bonsu-Maro hunting goals". Cook Islands News. 23 January 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  10. ^ "2013 OFC U-17 Championship - Preliminaries Match Summary" (PDF). Oceania Football Confederation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  11. ^ Tauira, Kayva (3 March 2022). "Cook Islands National Men's team named for 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers". Cook Islands Football Association. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

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