Maro Bonsu-Maro

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Maro Bonsu-Maro
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-02-26) 26 February 1997 (age 26)
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*
YearsTeamApps(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.

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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 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
YearAppsGoals
202200
Total00

Personal

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

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References

  1. 1 2 "INTERVIEW: Auckland's Maro Bonsu-Maro on adapting to a new club and playing in the OCL for three different clubs". footballoceania.com. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Bonsu-Maro returns to his roots". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  3. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 "Five facts about Maro Bonsu Maro". Auckland City FC. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  9. ↑ "Bonsu-Maro hunting goals". Cook Islands News. 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. "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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