Plamen Konstantinov

Plamen Konstantinov
Personal information
Full name	Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov
Born	June 14, 1973(1973-06-14)
Height	2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)
Weight	93 kg (210 lb)
National team
Bulgaria
Honours Men’s Volleyball Competitor for  Bulgaria World Championship Bronze 2006 Japan Team FIVB World Cup Bronze 2007 Japan Team

Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov (Bulgarian: Пламен Георгиев Константинов; b. 14 June 1973) is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and captain of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team,coach.

Konstantinov was born in Sofia; both his parents, Georgi and Eva née Doycheva, are former volleyball internationals and his older brother Julian Konstantinov is an opera singer.^[1] Like his father, he bears the nickname Gibona ("The Gibbon"). He is 2.02 metres (80 in) tall and weighs 93 kilograms (210 lb).^[2]

Konstantinov finished a sports school and started his career with Levski Sofia in 1986, where he remained until 1995; he spent some of the following season with Slavia Sofia and then moved to Italy to play for the Gioia del Colle team. In 1996–97, he was a member of Greek Aris VC and then of Turkish Halkbank Ankara (1997–99). From 1999 until 2004 he played in Greece for Orestiada, PAOK Thessaloniki V.C., Iraklis VC, Olympiacos S.C. and Panathinaikos VC. In 2004–05, he was with the French Tours VB and then in 2004–05 he represented the Montichiari team. In 2005–06, he played in Poland for Jastrzębski Węgiel and then in 2006–07 he was in Russia with ZSKA Gazprom Surgut. Since 2007, he has been a member of Iraklis VC.^[2] With Iraklis Thessaloniki he won the silver medal at the 2008-09 Indesit Champions League and also was individually awarded "Best Receiver".^[3]

Konstantinov's awards and achievements include Bulgarian championship titles with Levski and Slavia, Greek championship titles with Aris, Iraklis, Olympiakos and Panathinaikois and a French championship title with Tours. He has also won the Greek Cup once and the Supercup twice with Iraklis and the Bulgarian Cup twice with Slavia. He has twice been awarded the Greek Championship Volleyball Player of the Year prize. In 2006, he won third-place bronze medals from the 2006 FIVB Men's World Championship and the 2007 FIVB Men's World Cup in Japan with the Bulgaria national team.^[2] In 2008, he was voted Bulgaria's Man of the Year in an online poll organized by Darik Radio.^[4]

Club career

Year	Club
1986–1995	Levski Sofia
1995–1996	Iraklis VC
1996	Gioia del Colle
1996–1999	Halkbank Ankara
1999–2000	Orestiada
2000–2002	PAOK Thessaloniki V.C.
2002–2003	Olympiacos S.C.
2003–2004	Panathinaikos VC
2004	Tours VB
2004–2005	Montichiari
2005–2006	Jastrzębski Węgiel
2006–2007	ZSK Gasprom Surgut
2007–2009	Iraklis VC

Coaching career

In 2011/12 season, he started his coaching career, as the coach of Gazprom-Yugra of the Russian Volleyball League.

Awards

Individuals

• 2008–09 CEV Champions League "Best Receiver"

References

1. ^ "Пламен Константинов стана мъж на годината" (in Bulgarian). Топспорт. 2008-11-10. http://topsport.ibox.bg/news/id_1316151957. Retrieved 2008-11-15. "По-малък брат на известния оперен певец Юлиян Константинов (р. 1966)." ("His older brother is the well-known opera singer Yuliyan Konstantinov (born 1966)." 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Пламен Константинов стана мъж на годината" (in Bulgarian). Топспорт. 2008-11-10. http://topsport.ibox.bg/news/id_1316151957. Retrieved 2008-11-15. 
3. ^ CEV. "TRENTINO wins CEV Indesit Champions League!". http://www.cev.lu/mmp/online/website/news/news_archive/news_archive_2009/news_archive_2009_04/14210_EN.html. Retrieved 2010-04-04. 
4. ^ Павлова, Инес. "Пламен Константинов (2008)" (in Bulgarian). Мъж на годината. http://zar.bg/manoftheyear/men.php?id=17. Retrieved 2008-11-15. 

External links

• sports-reference