Dominik Greif

Dominik Greif

Greif with Slovan Bratislava in 2018
Personal information
Date of birth	(1997-04-06) 6 April 1997 (age 26)
Place of birth	Bratislava, Slovakia
Height	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) [1]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Mallorca
Number	13
Youth career
	ŠK Vrakuňa Bratislava
2008–2015	Slovan Bratislava
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2015–2021	Slovan Bratislava	103	(0)
2021–	Mallorca	2	(0)
International career‡
2015–2016	Slovakia U19	4	(1)
2018	Slovakia U21	1	(0)
2019–	Slovakia	4	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4 June 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 October 2020

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]

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 got plagued by various health problems. ^[5] A muscle injury first sidelined him for a month after his arrival to Mallorca. Consequently, he had to fight an infection of his wisdom teeth. Shortly afterwards, Greif got long-term sidelined by major chronic pain due to an unspecified illness not related to footballer. He could not practice for almost one year until doctors finally found the cause and appropriate treatment. Greif eventually came back to play in a competitive game in December 2022. ^[6]

During the 2023–24 Copa del Rey, Greif was dropped out for 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 penalties from Brais Méndez and Mikel Oyarzabal before half-time, only for Mallorca to win 5-4 on penalties. ^[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]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Slovan Bratislava	2015–16	Fortuna liga	2	0	2	0	0	0	—		4	0
	2016–17	Fortuna liga	8	0	1	0	0	0	1 [lower-alpha 1]	0	10	0
	2017–18	Fortuna liga	19	0	2	0	4 [lower-alpha 2]	0	—		25	0
	2018–19	Fortuna liga	28	0	0	0	2 [lower-alpha 2]	0	—		30	0
	2019–20	Fortuna liga	20	0	0	0	14 [lower-alpha 3]	0	—		32	0
	2020–21	Fortuna liga	26	0	0	0	1 [lower-alpha 2]	0	—		27	0
	Total		103	0	5	0	19	0	1	0	128	0
Mallorca	2021–22	La Liga	0	0	0	0	—		—		0	0
Career total			103	0	5	0	19	0	1	0	128	0

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]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Slovakia	2019	2	0
	2020	2	0
Total		4	0

Honours

Slovan Bratislava

• Slovak First Football League: 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21
• Slovak Cup: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20, 2020–21

Individual

• Slovak Super Liga Player of the Month: February/March 2020 ^[15]
• Slovak Super Liga Best Goalkeeper: 2019-20, ^[16] 2020-21 ^[17]
• Slovak Super Liga Team of the Season: 2019-20, 2020-21 ^[18]

References

1. "Dominik Greif". ŠK Slovan Bratislava (in Slovak). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
2. "Greif viac dostal než odrobil. Weiss vysvetlil, prečo napriek výhradám pokračujú Ratao a Bajrič". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). 5 July 2021.
3. "MFK Zemplín Michalovce – ŠK Slovan Bratislava 1:1". Sme (in Slovak). 13 May 2016.
4. "Dominik Greif joins RCD Mallorca". RCD Mallorca. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
5. "Rozhovor Dominik Greif: Som rád, že som sa neobesil". Aktuality.sk. 28 December 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
6. "Mallorca squeeze into last 32 after 0-1 cup win". Majorca Daily Bulletin. 23 December 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
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. Charcártegui, Miguel (28 February 2024). "Dominik Greif, el nuevo gran héroe del Real Mallorca". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish).
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. "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.
11. "Slováci zdolali Jordánsko, v druhom polčase strelili päť gólov". Sme (in Slovak). Petit Press. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
12. "Slováci v príprave remizovali s Paraguajom, s reprezentáciou sa rozlúčila trojica hráčov". Sme (in Slovak). Petit Press. 13 October 2019.
13. Dominik Greif at Soccerway
14. Dominik Greif at National-Football-Teams.com
15. "Greif premiérovo Hráčom mesiaca: Brankári nezískavajú ceny často". Profutbal (in Slovak). 11 May 2020. Archived from the original on 9 April 2020.
16. "Brankári – Štatistiky". Fortuna liga. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
17. "Brankári - Štatistiky". Fortuna liga. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
18. "Zsolt Kalmar najlepsim hracom..." Fortuna liga. 23 May 2021.

External links

• Profile at the RCD Mallorca website
• Futbalnet profile