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Dominik Greif

Dominik Greif

Slovak footballer

Dominik Greif (born 6 April 1997) is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club RCD Mallorca and the Slovakia national team.[2]

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Club career

Slovan Bratislava

Greif made his professional debut for Slovan Bratislava against MFK Zemplín Michalovce on 13 May 2016.[3] During the 2018–19 season, Greif was the first-choice goalkeeper over Michal Šulla, playing in 29 of the 32 games during the season.[citation needed]

Mallorca

On 6 July 2021, Greif joined newly-promoted La Liga side Mallorca on a five-year contract.[4] Shortly after his arrival, he was plagued by various health problems:[5] a muscle injury first sidelined him for a month, he then had to fight an infection of his wisdom teeth and he was sidelined by major chronic pain caused by an unspecified illness not related to football. He could not practice for almost a year until doctors finally found the cause and provided appropriate treatment. Greif eventually came back to play in a competitive game in December 2022.[6]

During the 2023–24 Copa del Rey, Greif dropped out of a training camp in Valle de Egüés due to a gastric illness.[7] He returned in the semi-final against Real Sociedad on 27 February 2024, saving a penalty from Brais Méndez in the first half and from Mikel Oyarzabal at the start of the subsequent shootout, which Mallorca won 5–4 to reach the final.[8]

International career

Although Greif was noted as a back-up goalkeeper in the Slovak senior team,[9] he was first called up to the national team on 25 May 2019 by Pavel Hapal. The nomination was for a double fixture in June – a home friendly match against Jordan, to which, unusually, 29 players were called-up and a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying fixture against Azerbaijan, played away on 11 June 2019. The squad was reduced to 23 players for the latter fixture.[10]

Greif debuted for the Slovak senior squad against Jordan on 7 June 2019 in a 5–1 win at the Anton Malatinský Stadium in Trnava.[11] He came on in the second half as a replacement for Matúš Kozáčik, with Slovakia losing 1–0, maintaining a clean sheet despite only having to face few rather undangerous situations.[11]

By the end of 2019, Greif also played in another friendly match against Paraguay, which was a return game to the Tehelné pole stadium after over ten years when the old stadium from 1940s was demolished. Tehelné pole also happens to be the home stadium of Greif's former club, Slovan Bratislava. His second game concluded with a tie 1–1. He conceded a goal from Kaku. Slovakia's goal was scored by Róbert Boženík. The game was also dubbed a farewell game for ex-captain Martin Škrtel, Tomáš Hubočan and Adam Nemec.[12]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 22 May 2021[13]
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  1. Appearance(s) in Czechoslovak Supercup
  2. Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  3. Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, twelve appearances in UEFA Europa League

International

As of match played 14 October 2020[14]
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Honours

Slovan Bratislava

Individual

References

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    "Dominik Greif". ŠK Slovan Bratislava (in Slovak). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Greif viac dostal než odrobil. Weiss vysvetlil, prečo napriek výhradám pokračujú Ratao a Bajrič". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). 5 July 2021.
  3. [3]
    "MFK Zemplín Michalovce – ŠK Slovan Bratislava 1:1". Sme (in Slovak). 13 May 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Dominik Greif joins RCD Mallorca". RCD Mallorca. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
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    "Rozhovor Dominik Greif: Som rád, že som sa neobesil". Aktuality.sk. 28 December 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  6. [6]
    "Mallorca squeeze into last 32 after 0-1 cup win". Majorca Daily Bulletin. 23 December 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  7. [7]
    Cabot, Ricard (6 December 2023). "Greif se cae de la convocatoria del Mallorca ante el Valle de Egüés por una indisposición gástrica". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish).
  8. [8]
    Charcártegui, Miguel (28 February 2024). "Dominik Greif, el nuevo gran héroe del Real Mallorca". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish).
  9. [9]
    "Tréner Hapal vítal hráčov na zraze pred úvodnými zápasmi kvalifikácie o ME 2020". Web Noviny (in Slovak). 17 March 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  10. [10]
    "SR A – V Hapalovej nominácii 29 hráčov, po Jordánsku sa zúži na 23 | Slovenský futbalový zväz". Slovak Football Association (in Slovak). 28 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
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    "Slováci zdolali Jordánsko, v druhom polčase strelili päť gólov". Sme (in Slovak). Petit Press. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  12. [12]
    "Slováci v príprave remizovali s Paraguajom, s reprezentáciou sa rozlúčila trojica hráčov". Sme (in Slovak). Petit Press. 13 October 2019.
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    Dominik Greif at Soccerway
  14. [14]
    Dominik Greif at National-Football-Teams.com
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    "Greif premiérovo Hráčom mesiaca: Brankári nezískavajú ceny často". Profutbal (in Slovak). 11 May 2020. Archived from the original on 9 April 2020.
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    "Brankári – Štatistiky". Fortuna liga. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
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    "Brankári - Štatistiky". Fortuna liga. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
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    "Zsolt Kalmar najlepsim hracom..." Fortuna liga. 23 May 2021.
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