Nikola Eklemović

Nikola Eklemović

Nikola Eklemović at the Schlecker Cup 2010
Player information
Nickname	"Nico"
birthday	February 8, 1978
place of birth	Belgrade , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Serbian / Hungarian
height	1.93 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	HC Minaur Baia Mare
Jersey number	24
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
-1996	RK Partizan Belgrade
1996-1999	RK Red Star Belgrade
1999-2004	SC Szeged
2004-2011	KC Veszprém
2011-2014	Wisla Plock
2014-2015	HC Minaur Baia Mare
National team
Debut on	June 3, 2000 for the FR Yugoslavia January 5, 2008 for Hungary
against	Denmark France
	Games (goals)
Serbia and Montenegro Hungary	14 (35) 32 (80)
Status: national team January 23, 2010

Nikola Eklemović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Никола Еклемовић ; in Hungary also Nikola Eklemovics ; born February 8, 1978 in Belgrade ) is a former Serbian-Hungarian handball player . His body length is 193 cm.

Eklemović, who plays for the Romanian club HC Minaur Baia Mare (shirt number 24) and plays for the Hungarian national team (shirt number 23), is mostly used on the center backcourt .

Nikola Eklemović signed his first professional contract with RK Partizan Belgrade . In 1996 he moved to city rivals RK Roter Stern Belgrade , where he was three times champion and one cup winner. In 1999 he was hired for the first time abroad with the Hungarian top team SC Szeged . There he remained largely unsuccessful, but played himself more and more into the field of vision of the series champion KC Veszprém , who also signed him in 2004. With the men from Lake Balaton , he won the Hungarian Championship in 2005, 2006 and 2008 and the Hungarian Cup in 2005 and 2007. In 2008 he won the European Cup Winners' Cup with Veszprém . On January 12, 2011 Nikola Eklemović signed a three-year contract with Wisła Płock and played in Poland from summer 2011. After the runner-up in 2014, he left the club. He then signed a contract with the Romanian first division club Minaur Baia Mare. With Baia Mare he won the championship in 2015. He then ended his active career and became sporting director at HC Minaur Baia Mare.

Nikola Eklemović has played 14 international matches for the Serbian-Montenegrin national team . With his country of origin he took part in the 2004 European handball championship , but otherwise remained largely unsuccessful. In 2007, Eklemović also took on Hungarian citizenship, so that after the three-year blocking period had expired after a change of nationality at the 2008 European handball championships for Hungary.

Web links

Commons : Nikola Eklemović  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

1. ↑ sport.interia.pl Nemanja Zelenović w Orlenie Wiśle Płock (Polish) from May 27, 2014, accessed on May 29, 2014
2. ↑ sport.interia.pl 28 lipca Orlen Wisła Płock zacznie przygotowania do sezonu (Polish) from July 24, 2014, accessed on May 27, 2015