Nikola Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Ковачевић, born 14 February 1983) is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team and French club Saint Nazaire VB, bronze medalist of the World Championship 2010, European Champion 2011, bronze medalist of the European Championship in 2007 and 2013, multimedalist of the World League.
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| Nationality |  Serbian | ||||
| Born | 14 February 1983 Kraljevo, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||
| Spike | 350 cm (140 in) | ||||
| Block | 340 cm (130 in) | ||||
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| Position | Outside hitter | ||||
| Current team |  Saint Nazaire VB | ||||
| Number | 8 | ||||
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Personal life
editHe has two brothers - Uroš (born 1993), who is also a volleyball player, and Savo. He was married to Jasmine and has two children with her, daughters Mia and Emma. In May 2016 he married Ana (nee Matijasević), who is a daughter of volleyball coach Nikola Matijasević and sister of volleyball players' manager Georges Matijasević. With Ana he has two sons Noa and Teo
Career
editClubs
editIn season 2012/2013 he played for Polish club from PlusLiga – Asseco Resovia Rzeszów. He won with the club Polish Championship in 2013. He spent the next season in the Russian club Ural Ufa. On 17 March 2014 official site of Russian club announced that the contract with Kovacevic has been terminated.[1] The reason for the premature termination of contract were financial problems of the club.[2] In 2014 he spent a few months in the club from Verona and then moved to Chinese team Fudan University Shanghai.[3]
National team
editHe is a gold medalist of 2011 European Championship[4] and bronze medalist of 2013 European Championship. He was a member of the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[5] On 19 July 2015 Serbian national team with him in squad went to the final of World League, but they lost with France 0–3 and achieved silver medal.[6][7]
Sporting achievements
edit- National championships
- 2002/2003
Serbian Championship, with Crvena Zvezda - 2009/2010
Greek Championship, with Aris Thessaloniki - 2012/2013 Polish Championship, with Asseco Resovia Rzeszów
- 2014/2015 Chinese Championship, with Shanghai Golden Age
- 2014/2015
French Championship, with Paris Volley - 2016/2017 Iranian Championship, with Paykan Tehran
- 2017/2018
Romanian SuperCup, with CS Arcada Galați - 2017/2018 Romanian Championship, with Paykan Tehran
- 2002/2003
- National team
- 2007
CEV European Championship - 2008 FIVB World League
- 2009 FIVB World League
- 2010 FIVB World League
- 2010
FIVB World Championship - 2011
CEV European Championship - 2013 CEV European Championship
- 2015 FIVB World League
- 2007
Individually
edit- 2011: CEV European Championship – Best Receiver
- 2015: Chinese Championship – Best Receiver
References
edit- ^ "Никола Ковачевич покинул "Урал"". volleyufa.ru (in Russian). 17 March 2014.
- ^ "Siatkarze Uralu Ufa zastrajkowali". plusliga.pl (in Polish). 16 March 2014.
- ^ "Nikola Kovacević zagra w Chinach!". czassiatkowki.pl (in Polish). 20 July 2014.
- ^ "Serbia is the 2011 European champion!". cev.eu. 18 September 2011.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Nikola Kovačević". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ "France upset Serbia to claim first World League title". fivb.org. 19 July 2015.
- ^ "France prevail over Serbia to claim gold; USA finish third". fivb.org. 19 July 2015.
External links
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- Nikola Kovačević at the European Volleyball Confederation
- Nikola Kovačević at Olympedia
- Nikola Kovačević at Olympics.com
- Nikola Kovačević at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (in Serbian)
