Robert Hupka

Robert Hupka
portrait
Date of birth	July 30, 1981
place of birth	Považská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia
size	1.91 m
position	Acceptance / outside
societies
1998–2000 2000–2001 2001 2002 2002–2003 2003–2005 2005–2009 2009–2010 2010–2013 since 2013	FK Inter Bratislava Matador Púchov Stavbár Žilina Pallavolo Parma Volley Asti Polska Energia Sosnowiec VfB Friedrichshafen Matador Púchov Generali Haching Jihostroj České Budějovice
National team
	Slovak junior national team senior national team
successes
2006–2009 2006–2008 2007 2011 2011 2012 2013	German champion DVV cup winner Champions League winner DVV cup winner European league winner German vice champion DVV cup winner
As of May 13, 2013

Robert Hupka (born July 30, 1981 in Považská Bystrica , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak volleyball player .

Career

Hupka started his volleyball career in 1993. From 1998 to 2000 he played at FK Inter Bratislava before moving to Matador Púchov for one season . After a short stint at Stavbár Žilina , he went to Italy, where he came to Volley Asti via Pallavolo Parma . In 2003 he was signed by the Polish association Polska Energia Sosnowiec . Two years later he moved to the German Bundesliga club VfB Friedrichshafen , where he had his most successful years at club level. At Lake Constance, his team won the German championship four times in a row and the DVV Cup three times . In 2007, Friedrichshafen also triumphed in the Champions League with Hupka . Because of health problems with his knee, Hupka had to end his engagement with VfB, whereupon he returned to his home country to Matador Púchov. In 2010 he returned to the Bundesliga and won the DVV Cup again in his first season with Generali Haching . In 2012 he was German runner-up with the Hachingen team and in 2013 again DVV cup winner. Then Hupka moved to the Czech Republic to Jihostroj České Budějovice .

As a junior national player, Hupka took part in the 1999 World Cup in Saudi Arabia and in 2001 in Poland . In 2003 he retired with the senior national team at the European Championships in Germany as the bottom of the group in the preliminary round. In 2011, Slovakia won the Europa League with Hupka . The team was then able to win their preliminary group at the European Championships in Austria and the Czech Republic before they were eliminated in the quarter-finals against defending champions Poland.

Web links

• Profile at Generali Haching
• Ranking list 2007 (pdf; 308 kB) ( Memento from March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Generali Haching: Generali Haching on the couch: Robert Hupka. (No longer available online.) Volleyball-bundesliga.de, October 21, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 24, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Slovakia squad at EM 2003 ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Jochen Wessels: Successful end of a long road. Generali Haching, July 17, 2011, accessed September 24, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Jochen Wessels: EM from semi-finals without Hachinger. General Haching, September 15, 2011, accessed September 24, 2011 .