Wenceslav Simeonov

Wenceslav Simeonov
2010 in Piacenza
portrait
Date of birth	3rd February 1977
place of birth	Plovdiv, Bulgaria
size	2.00 m
position	Diagonal
societies
1996–1998 1998–1999 1999–2000 2000–2002 2002–2003 2003–2005 2005–2008 2008–2011 2011–2012 2012–2014 2014–2015	Piemonte Volley Indomita Salerno Virtus Volley Fano Gabeca Volley Montichiari Piemonte Volley Pallavolo Padua Pallavolo Piacenza Vibo Valentia Pallavolo Padua VfB Friedrichshafen CVM Tomis Constanța
National team
	A national team
successes
1997 1998 2004 2008	Winner Top Teams Cup Winner Top Teams Cup Olympic silver medal Champions League finalist
As of July 11, 2020

Wenceslav Simeonov ( Bulgarian Венцеслав Симеонов , English transcription Ventzislav Simeonov , Italian transcription Ventceslav Simeonov , born February 3, 1977 in Plovdiv ) is a Bulgarian-Italian volleyball player .

Career

Simeonow started his career in 1996 with Piemonte Volley . With the club he won the European Top Teams Cup in 1997 and 1998 . He then played one season each with the second division clubs Indomita Salerno and Virtus Volley Fano . In 2000 he moved to the first division team Gabeca Volley Montichiari . In the 2002/2003 season, the diagonal attacker was again active at Piemonte before moving to Pallavolo Padua . In 2004, the native Bulgarian reached the final of the Olympic tournament with the Italian national team and won the silver medal. A year later he switched to Pallavolo Piacenza . With Piacenza he lost in the 2008 Champions League final against VK Zenit-Kazan . Then he went to Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia . After another season in Padua, he was signed by the German Bundesliga club VfB Friedrichshafen in 2012 .

Web links

• Profile at VfB Friedrichshafen
• Profile at Legavolley (Italian)
• Wenceslav Simeonow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ventzislav Simeonov: It is an honor to play for VfB Friedrichshafen. Südkurier , October 12, 2012, accessed on January 21, 2014 .