Nikola Kovačević

Personal information

Full name

Nikola Kovačević

Nationality

Serbian

Born

February 14, 1983
Kraljevo, Serbia

Height

1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)

Weight

78 kg (172 lb)

Spike

350 cm (140 in)

Block

340 cm (130 in)

Volleyball information

Position

Outside hitter

Current team

Fudan Shanghai

Number

Career

Years	Teams
2006–2007 2007–2009 2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–2012 2012–2013 2013–2014 2014–2014 2014–	OK Crvena Zvezda Belgrade GC Lamia Sir Safety Perugia Aris Thessaloniki Andreoli Latina Gubernija Nizhny Novgorod Asseco Resovia Rzeszów Ural Ufa Marmi Lanza Verona Fudan Shanghai

National team

2005–

Serbia

Honours

Competitor for Serbia
Men's Volleyball
World Championship
Bronze	2010 Italy
European Championship
Gold	2011 Austria/Czech Republic
Bronze	2007 Russia
Bronze	2013 Denmark/Poland
World League
Silver	2008 Rio de Janeiro
Silver	2009 Belgrade
Bronze	2010 Cordoba
Mediterranean Games
Bronze	2005 Almería

Last updated: February 11, 2015

Nikola Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Ковачевић, born 14 February 1983 in Kraljevo, Serbia) is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team, bronze medalist of the World Championship 2010, European Champion 2011, bronze medalits of the European Championship in 2007, 2013, mulitimedalist of the World League.

Personal life

He has two brothers - Savo and Uroš (born 1993), who is also a volleyball player. He is married to Jasmine. They have two daughters Mija and Emma.

Career

Clubs

In season 2012/2013 played for Polish club from PlusLiga - Asseco Resovia Rzeszów. He won with club from Poland Polish Championship. Next season spent in Russian Ural Ufa. On March 17, 2014 official site of Russian club announced that the contract with Kovacevic was terminated.^[1] The reason for the premature termination of contracts were financial problems of the club.^[2] In 2014 spent a few months in club from Verona and moved to Chinese team Fudan Shanghai.^[3]