Denny Gropper (or Danny Gruper, ; born 16 March 1999) is an Israeli professional

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who plays as a

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for the

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Early life

Gruper was born in

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, Israel, to a family of

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descent. His uncle is Israeli former international footballer

Ronny Rosenthal Ronny Rosenthal (; born 11 October 1963), nicknamed "Rocket Ronny", is an Israeli former footballer who played as a forward. After starting his career in his birth city with Maccabi Haifa, Rosenthal went on to play in Belgium with Club Brugge ...

Club career

Gropper joined the

Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Haifa () is one of the biggest sports clubs in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Football, Basketball, Weightl ...

youth department as a child. In 2015 he moved to the youth departments of

Hapoel Haifa Hapoel Haifa Football Club (, ''Moadon HaKaduregel Hapoel Haifa'') is an Israeli professional football club located in the city of Haifa. The club won one championship (1998–99) and 4 Israeli cups (1962–63, 1965–66 and 1973–74, 2 ...

and Ironi Nesher. In 2018 he first appeared in a senior team when he signed for one season at Hapoel Afula, where he impressed with a breakout season when he scored 4 goals in 30 league games in the National League. In May 2019 he signed for three seasons at the Israeli

Hapoel Tel Aviv Hapoel Tel Aviv () is a sports club in Israel, founded in the 1920s, and part of the Hapoel association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as football, basketball, w ...

club. In March 2022 Gropper signed a contract with Bulgarian champions

Ludogorets Razgrad Professional Football Club Ludogorets 1945 (), commonly known as Ludogorets Razgrad or simply Ludogorets, is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Razgrad, which currently competes in the First Professional Football League ...

Career statistics

Honours

Ludogorets Razgrad *

First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) The First Professional Football League (), commonly known as Parva Liga or Bulgarian First League (currently known as the efbet League for sponsorship reasons), is a professional association football league in Bulgaria and the highest level of t ...

: 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25 *

Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup () is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it. The tournament's format is ''single-elimination'', with all matche ...

: 2022–23, 2024–25 *

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup () is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match and the holder of the Bulgarian Cup at that time. ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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* 1999 births Israeli Ashkenazi Jews Living people Israeli men's footballers 21st-century Israeli sportsmen Footballers from Haifa Hapoel Afula F.C. players Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. players PFC Ludogorets Razgrad players Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. players Liga Leumit players Israeli Premier League players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Israeli expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Israeli expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent Men's association football midfielders Israel men's youth international footballers Israel men's under-21 international footballers Israel men's international footballers {{Israel-footy-midfielder-stub