Henrich Ravas (born 16 August 1997) is a Slovak professional

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who plays as a

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for

Widzew Łódź RTS Widzew Łódź () is a Polish football club based in Łódź. The club was founded in 1910. Its official colours are red and white, hence their nicknames ''Czerwona Armia'' (Red Army) and ''Czerwono-biało-czerwoni'' (Red-white-reds). History ...

Club career

Tenures in England

Ravas started his career with

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in 2014. In 2015, Ravas signed for

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club

Boston United Boston United Football Club is a semi-professional association football club based in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. The club participates in the National League North, at the sixth tier of the English football league system. The club is known ...

following a successful trial after previously being with

Peterborough United Peterborough United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. Peterborough have a long-standing ...

on non-contract terms. On 7 January 2016, Ravas signed for

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side

Derby County Derby County Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Derby, Derbyshire, England. In 2022, it was announced that DCFC was acquired by Clowes Developments (UK) Ltd, a Derbyshire-based property group. Founded in 1884 ...

joining the club's under-23 side. At the start of the 2017–18 season, Ravas moved on loan to

club

Gainsborough Trinity Gainsborough Trinity Football Club is a football club based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. Established in 1873, the club became members of the Football League in 1893 and remained members of the Second Division until 1912, making Gainsbo ...

. Ravas made 37 league appearances for the club and while Gainsborough were relegated, Ravas won the club's Young Player of the Year Award. Ravas moved to

Hartlepool United Hartlepool United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Hartlepool, County Durham, England. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. They were founded in 1908 as Hartle ...

in October 2020 on a season long loan. At the end of the same month, Ravas made his debut for the club in a 6–0 win against Ilkeston Town in the FA Cup fourth qualifying round. Following an injury to Ben Killip in April 2021, Ravas became the club's number one goalkeeper. However, he later lost his place in the team to Brad James. Ravas made 13 appearances for Pools in all competitions as the club won promotion to

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, however Ravas failed to make the match day squad for the

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play-off final. Ravas was released by Derby at the end of the 2020–21 season.

FK Senica

Ravas signed for

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side

FK Senica FK Senica () is a Slovak football team, based in the town of Senica. The club was founded in 1921. History FK Senica was founded in 1921. Newly created partition was rapidly progressed, but the boom dampened dark period World War II. World war ...

in July 2021. On 24 July 2021, Ravas made his debut at pod Čebraťom at

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, the match ended in a 0–0 draw. He left Senica in March 2022 after he had not been paid for four months.

Widzew Łódź

On 29 March 2022, he signed a three-month contract with an extension option with Polish

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club

, who at the time had only one other goalkeeper available, after Jakub Wrąbel and Konrad Reszka suffered season-ending injuries. Ravas made his debut for the club against

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on 3 April 2022 in a 2–1 win. In May 2022, shortly after the club won promotion to the

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, Ravas signed a contract extension with Widzew Łódź.

International career

Ravas was first recognised in a Slovak senior national team nomination by

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on 8 November 2022, ahead of two friendly fixtures against

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and

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. During the nomination, numerous national team newcomers first penetrated the short-listed squad as clubs were not required to release their players and multiple opted to, leaving free spots in the nomination. On both occasions, at

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on 17 November versus Montenegro, as well as

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retirement match for

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on 20 November versus Chile, Ravas was benched and did not enter play. Few weeks later, Ravas was also called up for prospective national team players' training camp hosted at

NTC Senec NTC Senec (Národné tréningové centrum Senec) is a football training center of the Slovak Football Association and a multi-use stadium in Senec, Slovakia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of ŠK Senec. T ...

in early December along with three younger goalkeepers from Slovak Fortuna Liga.

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1997 births Living people Sportspeople from Senica Slovak footballers Slovak expatriate footballers Association football goalkeepers Spartak Myjava players Boston United F.C. players Derby County F.C. players Gainsborough Trinity F.C. players Hartlepool United F.C. players FK Senica players Widzew Łódź players National League (English football) players Slovak Super Liga players I liga players Ekstraklasa players Expatriate footballers in England Slovak expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate footballers in Poland Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Poland {{Slovakia-footy-goalkeeper-stub