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Barcelona has yesterday officially announced the transfer of Celta Vigo B forward Goran Maric (24), who will play with Barcelona Atlètic in the third division next season.

Maric, who played for Celta Vigo B in the Spanish third division last season, has signed a one-year contract.

The Serbian striker is (after Rayo, Solano, Nolito, Verdes, Joni and Longás) the seventh signing of Barcelona Atlètic this summer (read more here).

Maric, who played two years at the Barcelona youth academy between 1999 and 2001, says in a first reaction to the club's official media, that he's happy to return to Barcelona: "Here and in Vigo I was formed as a football player and now I return so many years later trying to help Barcelona Atlètic obtain the highest. Besides, I will have the chance to work with Luis Enrique, who had been very imortant for the club."

Although last season he was the top goal scorer of the Spanish third division, Maric, who also received offers from second division teams Alavés and Girona, promises hard work, modesty and sacrifice: "Although this seems logic, you don't get goals or results witthout those three values, so that's what I want to contribute to the team, as well as several years of experience in the third division. But of course I'm aware that the club has signed me to score goals."

Spanish second division club Celta Vigo has officially confirmed the transfer. The club has an option to buy Maric back before 30 May 2009.

Read the official announcements of the other transfers of Barcelona Atlètic:
Rayo - Solano - Nolito - Verdes - Joni - Longás

Read more:
Barça B: Goran Maric (Celta Vigo B)







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