Valentin Bratoev

Valentin Bratoev
2011 in Piacenza
portrait
Date of birth	October 21, 1987
place of birth	Sofia, Bulgaria
size	2.01 m
position	Universal
societies
2002–2007 2007–2009 2009–2010 2010–2011 2011 2011–2012 2012 2012–2013 2013–2014	Slawia Sofia Lewski Sofia Quasar Massa Versilia Itas Diatec Trentino Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia Pallavolo Sora al-Rayyan SC Lewski Sofia VfB Friedrichshafen
National team
	A national team
successes
2009 2009 2011 2011 2012 2014	Bulgarian champion, third in the European Championship, Italian champion, Champions League winner, Olympic fourth in the DVV Cup
As of October 8, 2014

Valentin Bratoev ( Bulgarian Валентин Братоев , English transcription: Valentin Bratoev * 21st October 1987 in Sofia ) is a Bulgarian volleyball player .

Career

Bratoew started his career in 2002 with Slavia Sofia . In 2007 he moved to Levski Sofia within the capital . With Levski he won the national championship in 2009. In the same year, the universal player reached third place with the Bulgarian national team at the European Championship . He then went to Italy for the second division Quasar Massa Versilia . In 2010 he was signed by the first division club Itas Diatec Trentino , with whom he won the Italian championship and the Champions League in 2011 . In the following season he was initially under contract with Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia , but in November he moved to the second division Pallavolo Sora , in 2012 he reached fourth place at the Olympic Games with his twin brother Georgi Bratoew . After an interlude with al-Rayyan SC and a season in his home country with Levski Sofia , Bratoew played for the German Bundesliga club VfB Friedrichshafen in the 2013/14 season and won the DVV Cup here .

Web links

• Valentin Bratoew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile at legavolley.it (Italian)