Tamás Mocsai (born 9 December 1978) is a retired Hungarian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player who played for

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and the Hungarian national team. Currently he serves as the mayor of Felsőmocsolád.

Career

Club

He started to play handball at the age of 10 in Lemgo, where his father,

Lajos Mocsai Lajos Mocsai (; born 10 March 1954) is a former Hungarian international handball player, coach, university professor and sports director. Mocsai worked as the head coach of MKB Veszprém KC since his appointment in 2007, and beside his club te ...

was in charge at that time. He spent his youth career in

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, before debuting in the

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. His biggest success during his spell in Germany was the EHF City Cup, he achieved in 1998. Then he moved to Hungarian vice-champions Dunaferr SE, with whom he has broken the long-term hegemony of MKB Veszprém KC and won the Hungarian National Championship in his first season. He collected a silver and a bronze in the following seasons, and in addition, he lifted the

Hungarian Cup The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...

trophy in 2001. Later, he tried his hands in Switzerland. He signed to TV Suhr in 2002 and quickly became a fans' favourite. He was voted the best player of his team in 2003, and finished third on the goalscoring charts. He switched to domestic rivals and Champions League aspirants

Pfadi Winterthur Pfadi Winterthur is a team handball club from Switzerland. Currently, Pfadi Winterthur competes in the Swiss First League of Handball. The club developed out of an informal handball team which won the competitions during the national jambo ...

in 2004 to replace Cho Chi-Hyo, who was transferred to

Wacker Thun Wacker Thun is a handball club from Thun, Switzerland. Wacker Thun competes in Nationalliga A of the Swiss Handball League. Kits Achievements *1 EHF European Cup The EHF European Cup is an annual men's handball club competition or ...

. Mocsai signed a two-year deal with his new team, however, the bad performances and the restructure of the board resulted a mass exodus in 2005. Many players left the club, including Mocsai, who started the season at SG Kronau/Östringen. At the end of the season he signed a three-year contract with his former club

TBV Lemgo TBV Lemgo is a handball club from Lemgo, Germany, and is competing in the Handball-Bundesliga. History The ascent to one of the best German handball clubs was slow but steady. In the year the Bundesliga was founded, the club was still in the O ...

. With the North Rhine-Westphalian team he won the

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in 2010, after beating

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in the finals. Between 2010 and 2012 he played for

SG Flensburg-Handewitt SG Flensburg-Handewitt is a professional handball club from Flensburg and Handewitt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and EHF European League. They play home matches at Flens-Arena. Since formin ...

, subsequently he signed a two-year contract with Bundesliga rivals

TSV Hannover-Burgdorf TSV Hannover-Burgdorf is a handball club from Hannover, Germany, and is competing in the Handball-Bundesliga. History The team is known as DIE RECKEN. The origins of the club lie with the sports association Freie Turnerschaft Burgdorf, which ...

. In December 2013 he left Hannover and went to MKB Veszprém KC.

International

The first major event he participated was the 2004 European Championship. Since then he played on four

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(2007, 2009, 2011, 2013) and three

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(2008, 2012, 2014). He was also present at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

, where Hungary finished fourth. He was also part of the Hungarian team that finished fourth at the

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Achievements

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system. Twelve ...

: **''Winner'': 2000, 2014 **''Silver Medalist'': 2001 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2002 *

Magyar Kupa The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...

: **''Winner'': 2001, 2014 *

EHF Cup Winners' Cup The EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for men's and women's handball clubs of Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocea ...

: **''Winner'': 2012 **''Finalist'': 2000 **''Semifinalist'': 2002 *

: **''Winner'': 2010 * EHF City Cup: **''Winner'': 1998 *

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**''Third Placed'': 2000

Individual awards

* Golden Cross of the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2012)

References

External links

Tamás Mocsai profile on SG Flensburg-Hadewitt official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mocsai, Tamas 1978 births Living people Handball players from Budapest Hungarian male handball players Olympic handball players for Hungary Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Hungarian expatriate handball players in Germany Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland 20th-century Hungarian people 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in West Germany Expatriate handball players in Switzerland TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke players SG Flensburg-Handewitt players TBV Lemgo players Veszprém KC players TSV Hannover-Burgdorf players