Tomáš Kocian-Falkenbach

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Tomáš Kocian-Falkenbach
portrait
Date of birth March 27, 1988
place of birth Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
size 1.92 m
position Player
societies

until 2011
2011–2013
2013–2014
2014–2015
2015–2018
since 2018 		SSF Fortuna Bonn
VC Eintracht Mendig
evivo Düren
TV Ingersoll Bühl
SWD Powervolleys Düren
VfB Friedrichshafen
SWD Powervolleys Düren
National team
Slovak national junior team
successes
2016, 2017, 2018
2017, 2018
2020 		German runner-up
DVV cup winner
DVV cup finalist

As of June 7, 2020

Tomáš Kocian-Falkenbach (born March 27, 1988 in Bratislava ) is a German - Slovak volleyball player . The setter won two cups with VfB Friedrichshafen . Since 2018 he has been playing again with the SWD Powervolleys Düren , with which he reached the cup final in 2020.

Career

Kocian came to Germany from what was then Czechoslovakia at the age of three . His father, national player Milan Kocian , played for VC Eintracht Mendig from 1991 to 1999 . Tomas started his volleyball career at SSF Fortuna Bonn and later moved to Mendig as a player. In 2006 he took part in the European Championship with the Slovak national junior team. 2011 Mendig was champion of the second league south , but renounced promotion. Kocian was then signed by the first division club evivo Düren , who had already shown interest twice before, as the second setter. In 2013 he moved to league competitor TV Ingersoll Bühl .

After a season in Bühl, Kocian, who meanwhile also has German citizenship, returned to Düren in 2014. With the SWD Powervolleys he reached third place in the Bundesliga and the semi-finals in the DVV Cup in the 2014/15 season . He was then signed by the German champions VfB Friedrichshafen as a second setter. With the Häflern he was German runner- up in the 2015/16 season . The following season, Kocian won the DVV Cup final with VfB against the Berlin Recycling Volleys , but was defeated again by the same opponent in the playoff final for the German championship. Also in the 2017/18 season, Friedrichshafen (this time against TV Bühl ) won the DVV Cup . In the league, the team lost again in the final against Berlin. In the Champions League , VfB came with Kocian after two preliminary rounds this time in the second playoff round.

After three years at Lake Constance, Kocian moved again to the SWD Powervolleys Düren. With the team he reached the semifinals in the DVV Cup and the quarterfinals in the Bundesliga playoffs . In the DVV-Pokal 2019/20 he reached the final with the SWD Powervolleys, which the team lost to the Berlin Recycling Volleys . When the Bundesliga season was canceled shortly before the playoffs, Düren was in sixth place in the table. Kocian will also play for Düren in the 2020/21 season.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ evivo Düren: A playmaker with volleyball genes. volleyballer.de, June 24, 2011, archived from the original on May 23, 2014 ; accessed on May 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Volleyball: Tomas Kocian changes from Mendig to the first division team Düren. Rhein-Zeitung , June 26, 2011, archived from the original on May 23, 2014 ; accessed on May 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Evivo Düren brings Tomas Kocian back. Aachener Nachrichten, May 19, 2014, accessed on May 22, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Bundesliga: Tomas Kocian moves from Düren to Lake Constance. volleyballer.de, July 21, 2015, accessed on May 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The Powervolleys returnees set themselves ambitious goals. Aachener Nachrichten, May 17, 2018, accessed on May 19, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Tomas Kocian stays in Düren. SWD Powervolleys, May 6, 2020, accessed on May 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kocian-Falkenbach, Tomáš
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kocian, Tomáš (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Slovak volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava , Slovakia