Nikola Rosic

Nikola Rosic
2014 at the World Cup in Poland
portrait
Date of birth	5th August 1984
place of birth	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
size	1.92 m
position	Libero
societies
1999–2004 2004–2006 2006–2009 2009–2013 2013–2014 since 2014	OK Partizan Belgrade OK Budvanska Rivijera Moerser SC VfB Friedrichshafen Pallavolo Lugano CVM Tomis Constanța
National team
	A national team
successes
2007 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2014	DVV Cup Finalist DVV Cup Finalist World League Finalist German Champion Third World League Third World Cup German Champion European Champion DVV Cup Winner Olympic Ninth German Vice Champion World Cup ninth
As of September 25, 2014

Nikola Rosić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Никола Росић ; born August 5, 1984 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian volleyball player .

Career

Rosić began his volleyball career in 1994, using his mother as a role model. From 1999 to 2004 he played in his hometown for OK Partizan Belgrade . He then moved to the Montenegrin club OK Budvanska Rivijera . In 2006, the German Bundesliga team Moerser SC signed the Libero and reached the final of the DVV Cup with it . Two years later Moers reached the final at the Gerry Weber Stadium again , but this time Rosić had to watch injured. He then moved to VfB Friedrichshafen , with whom he won the German championship in 2010 and 2011 and the DVV Cup in 2012 . In 2013 Rosić went to Switzerland to Pallavolo Lugano and in 2014 to Romania to CVM Tomis Constanța .

Rosić also celebrated some successes with the Serbian national team . In the World League 2009 , the team reached the final and in the same competition in 2010 third place. It was already the fifth participation for the Libero. There was also bronze at the World Cup in Italy in the same year , when Serbia narrowly lost the semi-finals against Cuba and then defeated the hosts . At the European Championships 2011 , Serbia won the title with Rosić by another victory against Italy. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 and at the 2014 World Cup in Poland , Rosić finished ninth with the national team.

Web links

• Nikola Rosić in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ranking lists: 2007 ( Memento from March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf; 308 kB) - 2008 (pdf; 452 kB) - 2009 ( Memento from March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf; 759 kB) - 2010 ( pdf; 546 kB) - 2011 (pdf; 459 kB) - 2012 (pdf; 388 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nils Jansen: Without Rosic, without a chance. Rheinische Post , March 9, 2009, accessed on September 27, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Silver for Nikola Rosic. Rheinische Post, July 29, 2009, accessed on September 27, 2011 . 
3. ^ Conny Kurth: Volleyball: World League: Bronze for Nikola Rosic. volleyballer.de, July 26, 2010, accessed on September 27, 2011 . 
4. ^ Profile at the FIVB
5. ↑ Volleyball: World Cup: Bronze for Nikola Rosic. volleyballer.de, October 11, 2010, accessed on September 27, 2011 . 
6. ↑ VfB-Libero Rosic is European champion. VfB Friedrichshafen, September 19, 2011, accessed on February 14, 2013 .