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Kovačević with Rzeszów in January 2013.
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Full name | Nikola Kovačević | ||||
Nationality | Serbian | ||||
Born |
Kraljevo, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
February 14, 1983 ||||
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 | Lokomotiv Novosibirsk | ||||
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Last updated: 20 February 2017 |
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 Russian club VC Lokomotiv Novosibirsk, bronze medalist of the World Championship 2010, European Champion 2011, bronze medalits of the European Championship in 2007, 2013, multimedalist of the World League.
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.
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. The reason for the premature termination of contracts were financial problems of the club. In 2014 spent a few months in club from Verona and moved to Chinese team Fudan Shanghai.
He is a gold medalist of European Championship 2011 and bronze medalist of European Championship 2013. He was a member of the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. On July 19, 2015 Serbian national team with him in squad went to the final of World League, but they lost with France men's national volleyball team 0–3 and achieved silver medal.