Alexander Shafranovich

Alexander Shafranovich
portrait
Date of birth	April 2, 1983
place of birth	Pryluky, Soviet Union
size	1.94 m
position	Acceptance / outside
societies
2001–2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2006–2007 2007–2008 2008–2010 2010–2011 2011 2011–2013 2013–2014 2014–2015 2015–	Maccabi Hod haScharon Hapoel Hazor VfB Friedrichshafen EA Patras Azovstal Mariupol Beauvais Oise UC Montpellier UC OK Budvanska Rivijera CheBanca Milan Generali Haching Nantes Rezé Métropole Volley PAOK Thessaloniki Jastrzębski Węgiel
National team
	A national team
successes
2005 2005 2008 2010 2012 2013 2015	DVV cup winners German champions French cup winners Vice cup winners France German runners-up DVV cup winners Greek champions
As of November 5, 2015

Alexander Shafranovich ( Hebrew אלכס שפרנוביץ '; * April 2, 1983 in Pryluky , Ukrainian SSR ) is an Israeli volleyball player .

Career

Shafranovich emigrated to Israel with his parents from Ukraine in 1994 . His father had competed in the 1976 Olympics as a 100-meter sprinter and Shafranovich began his sporting career in tennis before eventually switching to volleyball. From 2001 to 2004 he played in Israel, first with Maccabi Hod haScharon and then one season with Hapoel Hazor . In 2004, the German Bundesliga club VfB Friedrichshafen signed the captain of the Israeli national team and won the German championship and the DVV Cup with him . In the following two years Shafranovich played one season each in Greece for EA Patras and in Ukraine for Azovstal Mariupol . Then he went to France. There he won the French Cup in 2008 with Beauvais Oise UC and was back in the final two years later with Montpellier UC. In the 2010/11 season he was active in the Champions League with the Montenegrin club OK Budvanska Rivijera . After playing briefly for the Italian second division club CheBanca Milan , he returned to the Bundesliga in 2011 and signed with Generali Haching . With the national team he took part in the 2011 Universiade in Shenzhen . With the Hachingen team, he was German runner-up in 2012 and DVV cup winner in 2013 . Then Shafranovich moved back to France to Nantes Rezé Métropole Volley, with whom he took part in the 2013/14 CEV Cup . In 2014 Shafranovich moved to PAOK Thessaloniki , with whom he became Greek champion in 2015. He then went to Poland to Jastrzębski Węgiel .

Web links

• Profile at Nantes Rezé Métropole Volley

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Shafranovich reinforces the assumption. Südkurier , July 22, 2004, accessed September 25, 2011 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Profile at Lega Pallavolo Serie A (Italian)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Jochen Wessels: A lot of experience for a vacant position. Generali Haching, July 11, 2011, accessed September 25, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Jochen Wessels: Shafranovic with Israel in China at the start. Generali Haching, August 11, 2011, accessed September 25, 2011 . 
5. ^ Generali Haching, Shafranovic to Nantes
6. ↑ Nantes Rezé Métropole team at the 2013/14 CEV Cup