Career
He is the brother of Tomislav Marić. Marić started his career at Télégraphie Sans Fil Ditzingen, near Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg. He was then signed by Stuttgart II, and then had spells at Waldhof Mannheim, SSV Reutlingen and VfL Bochum.
He then moved to Austrian club Football Club Kärnten and returned to Germany in summer 2004 when Arminia Bielefeld signed him for a two-year deal with a transfer fee of €150,000.
He just made five substitute appearances and then moved to Eintracht Trier in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga in January 2005.
He then joined SpVgg Unterhaching also in the 2. Bundesliga and after that Regionalliga club VfR Aalen.
On 16 February 2009, he had an unsuccessful trial with Iranian giants Esteghlal F.C. and joined later KSG Gerlingen.
While playing at Football Club Kärnten in the Austrian Bundesliga, he was called up to the Croatia national football team, for whom he earned eight caps and scored one goal. While six of these were friendly matches, two of them were Euro 2004 qualifying matches. His international goal came in the friendly match against Macedonia on 9 February 2003.
He made his international debut in the friendly against Wales on 21 August 2002 and he played his last match against Slovakia, in a friendly match on 29 May 2004.
He also played a B friendly against Romania, on 30 January 2001.