Dominik Picak is a Croatian

Croats

Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

 football goalkeeper

Goalkeeper (football)

In association football, the goalkeeper occupies a position that represents the last line of defence between the opponent's offence and his own team's goal. The primary role of the goalkeeper is to defend his team's goal and prevent the opposition from scoring a goal...

 who plays for Lokomotiva Zagreb

NK Lokomotiva

NK Lokomotiva is a Croatian football club based in Zagreb, currently competing in the Prva HNL, the country's top division. Founded originally as ŽŠK Victoria in 1914, the club's only period of success came in the late 1940s and early 1950s before spending most of the following five decades as...

, on loan from Dinamo Zagreb

Dinamo Zagreb

GNK Dinamo Zagreb, commonly referred to as Dinamo Zagreb , or by their nickname Modri are a Croatian football club based in Zagreb. They play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Croatian football, having won thirteen Croatian championship titles, ten...

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Club career

Picak was promoted to Dinamo Zagreb's first team in the summer of 2009, becoming the third-choice goalkeeper behind Tomislav Butina

Tomislav Butina

Tomislav Butina is a former Croatian footballer who played as goalkeeper for top level clubs Dinamo Zagreb, Club Brugge and Olympiacos. He was also capped 28 times for the Croatia national football team in the period from 2001 to 2006 and was member of Croatian squads at the 2002 and 2006 FIFA...

 and Filip Lončarić

Filip Loncaric

Filip Lončarić is a Croatian professional football goalkeeper who currently plays for Dinamo Zagreb. The player spent his whole career playing for the club, making 52 appearances in all competitions....

 after the club's previous second-choice goalkeeper, Ivan Kelava

Ivan Kelava

Ivan Kelava is a Croatian professional football goalkeeper with local powerhouse GNK Dinamo Zagreb.-Club career:Kelava has been playing for Dinamo Zagreb's youth teams since 1997, being promoted to the club's senior squad in the summer of 2006...

, was loaned to Lokomotiva Zagreb

NK Lokomotiva

NK Lokomotiva is a Croatian football club based in Zagreb, currently competing in the Prva HNL, the country's top division. Founded originally as ŽŠK Victoria in 1914, the club's only period of success came in the late 1940s and early 1950s before spending most of the following five decades as...

. He made his competitive debut for the first team on 6 December 2009 in Dinamo's 4-1 away win at NK Međimurje in the Croatian First League, playing the whole match due to injuries to both Butina and Lončarić.

In January 2010, Picak was loaned to Lokomotiva Zagreb until the end of the 2009-10 season. He did not appear in any competitive matches for the club during the season, having served as back-up for fellow Dinamo Zagreb loanee Ivan Kelava. The club kept Picak on loan for the 2010-11 season.

International career

In 2007, Picak started playing for the Croatian national under-15 football team, and also made his debut for the country's under-17 national team during the same year. In 2010, he was promoted to the country's under-19 national team. Up to date, he won a total of 33 international caps for the Croatian national football teams at the under-15 to under-19 levels.

External links

• Dominik Picak at Transfermarkt.de