Nikola Kovačević
# Nikola Kovačević

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.

## Personal life

He 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

### Clubs

In 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. 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 Verona 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 London. 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.

## Sporting achievements

* 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
* 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

### Individually

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