Nikola Kovačević ( sr-cyrl, Никола Ковачевић) (born 14 February 1983) is a

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, a member of

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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

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, multimedalist of the World League.

Personal life

He has two brothers - Uroš (born 1993), who is also a

, 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

Clubs

In season 2012/2013 he played for Polish club from PlusLiga –

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. He won with the club Polish Championship in 2013. He spent the next season in the Russian club

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. On 17 March 2014 official site of Russian club announced that the contract with Kovacevic has been terminated. The reason for the premature termination of contract were financial problems of the club. In 2014 he spent a few months in the club from

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and then moved to Chinese team Fudan University Shanghai.

National team

He is a gold medalist of 2011 European Championship and bronze medalist of 2013 European Championship. He was a member of the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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. On 19 July 2015 Serbian national team with him in squad went to the final of World League, but they lost with

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0–3 and achieved silver medal.''France prevail over Serbia to claim gold; USA finish third''
– fivb.org – 19-07-2015

Sporting achievements

* National championships ** 2002/2003 Gold medal with cup

Serbian Championship, with

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** 2009/2010 Bronze medal with cup

Greek Championship, with

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** 2012/2013 Gold medal with cup

Polish Championship, with

** 2014/2015 Gold medal with cup

Chinese Championship, with Shanghai Golden Age ** 2014/2015 Silver medal with cup

French Championship, with

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** 2016/2017 Silver medal with cup

Iranian Championship, with

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** 2017/2018 Simple gold cup

Romanian SuperCup, with

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** 2017/2018 Silver medal with cup

Romanian Championship, with

* National team ** 2007 Bronze medal europe

CEV European Championship ** 2008 Silver medal with cup

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** 2009

** 2010

FIVB World Championship ** 2011 Gold medal europe

CEV European Championship ** 2013 Bronze medal europe

CEV European Championship ** 2015 Silver medal with cup

Individually

* 2011: CEV European Championship – Best Receiver * 2015: Chinese Championship – Best Receiver

References