Marlon Maro

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Marlon Maro
Personal information
Date of birth (1965-06-21) June 21, 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth Dumaguete, Philippines
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Philippine Navy
International career
Philippines
Managerial career
2001–2007 Philippines (women's)
2008–2009 Philippines (HWC)
?– College of Saint Benilde
2011–2012 Philippine Navy
~2013 Philippines (U18)
2015– Philippines (U23)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marlon Maro (born June 21, 1965) is a Filipino football coach and former international football player. He is the head coach of the Philippines national under-23 team since 2015.[1]

Club career

Maro played as a player for Philippine Navy.[2]

International career

Marlon Maro played as a defender for the Philippine national team. He was part of the 1991 squad that reached the semifinals of the Southeast Asian Games; the highest achievement of the senior team at said tournament before the football at the games became an under-23 tournament in 2001. At the 1993 Southeast Asian Games, Marlon Maro was designated as the captain of the national team.[1][3]

Coaching career

Philippines (women's)

Maro coached the Philippine women's national team from 2001 to 2007.[1][4]

College of St. Benilde

Maro is currently coaching the football team of the College of Saint Benilde which plays at the NCAA Football Championship. He led the collegiate team to its first NCAA title at the 2009-10 season ending San Beda College eight-year championship winning streak.[1][4][5]

Philippines Homeless World Cup

Marlon Maro, led the 2008 and 2009 Philippine squads that participated at the Homeless World Cup, a football competition for street children of several countries.[6][7][8]

Philippine Navy

During off-season of the United Football League in 2011, Marlon Maro was hired as head coach of Philippine Navy. Maro brought in civilian players, with some coming from San Beda College in an effort to boost the squad.[9][10]

Philippines U18

At the 2013 Kanga Cup, under the club name Carranz F.C., the Philippine U18 team, led by Maro, won the U18 male division of the youth tournament beating Capital Football Senior NTC in the finals; 1–0.[11][12]

Philippines U23

For the national team's stint at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, Maro was appointed head coach to lead the team, taking over from Australian Jimmy Fraser, as head coach.[1]

Other involvements in Football

Along with Aris Caslib, Maro organized the Ang Liga, an annual inter-collegiate football tournament in 2003.[4][13]

Honours

College of St. Benilde
Carranz F.C. (Philippine U18)

Military career

Maro has served with the Philippine Navy retiring in 2008 with the rank of Sergeant.[10]

References

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