Dominik Picak (born 12 February 1992) is a Croatian football

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who plays for Croatian club

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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 and Filip Lončarić after the club's previous second-choice goalkeeper, Ivan Kelava, was loaned to Lokomotiva Zagreb. He made his competitive debut for the first team on 6 December 2009 in Dinamo's 4–1 away win at

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in the

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, playing the whole match due to injuries to both Butina and Lončarić. In January 2010, Picak was sent to Lokomotiva Zagreb with whom he initially signed a stipend contract. He did not appear in any competitive matches for the club until the end of the 2009–10 season, playing for the U19 team and serving as back-up for fellow Dinamo Zagreb loanee Ivan Kelava, and the club signed a 7-year professional contract with him in August 2010.

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. On 11 August 2013, due to

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's injury, Picak was called up as a replacement, by

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's head coach

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for a friendly match against

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on 14 August 2013.

Coaching career

In February 2024, Picak joined

as a goalkeeper coach and player.Profile at HNS
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