Maro Bonsu-Maro

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

Maro Bonsu-Maro
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-02-26) 26 February 1997
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)

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]

References
  1. "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. "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. "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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