Mária Korenčiová (born 27 April 1989) is a Slovak professional

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who plays as a

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for Italian

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club

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and the Slovakia women's national team.

Club career

Korenčiová started her career in 2005 Slovan Bratislava, where she played for 8 years. Also in 2005 she made her debut in the

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with Slovan and first played with the Slovak U-19 national team. She made her debut for the senior national team on November 23, 2006 in the 2009 EURO qualifiers' preliminary round, and since the 2011 World Cup qualifiers she has been its first-choice goalkeeper. In the 2012–13 winter break she moved to Slavia Prague in the

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, and following the end of the season she signed for

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of the 2nd Bundesliga,

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's second tier. Sand was promoted to the first division for the 2014–15 season. In July 2016, Korenčiová moved to Swiss Nationalliga A side

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. In July 2018, Korenčiová joined Italian club AC Milan. In 2020, Korenčiová was named the best Slovak player of the year. In January 2022, after 3.5 years at Milan, Korenčiová left the club to join Spanish club Levante, signing until the end of the 2021–22 Primera División season. She returned to Italy with

in July 2022.

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