Tamás Mocsai
Tamás Mocsai on March 24, 2007 in Aschaffenburg Hall
As of January 11, 2014
Tamás Mocsai [ tɒma ː ʃ motʃɒ.i ] ( born December 9, 1978 in Budapest) is a Hungarian handball player. He is the son of Handball coach Lajos Mocsai.
Career
Tamás Mocsai played in his youth first TBV Lemgo, where his father at the time coached the Bundesliga club. Later he played with GWD Minden and from 1997 at TuS Nettelstedt, where he already belonged to the Bundesliga squad. In the season 1998/ 99 of 1.96 meter back player for the second-tier TV Jahn Duderstadt ran on, then he moved to the Hungarian club Dunaferr SE, with whom he later won the cup 2000 championship and a one year. From 2002 to 2005 he played in Switzerland for the TV and watch at Scout Winterthur. Then he returned to Germany and joined the newly promoted Bundesliga SG Kronau / Östringen. With Östringen he reached the finals of the DHB Cup 2006, where they lost the HSV Hamburg at 25:26. From 2006 he played again TBV Lemgo, with whom he was in 2010 EHF Cup Winners' Cup. Then Mocsai moved to SG Flensburg -Handewitt. With the SG in 2012, he won the last time the played European Cup Winners' Cup, after he had already in 2000 the finale and 2002 reached the semi-finals of this competition. In summer 2012, he moved to league rivals TSV Hannover -Burgdorf. In December 2013 Mocsais contract with TSV was dissolved at his request to leave and he moved to the Hungarian club KC Veszprém.
For the Hungarian Handball National Team Mocsai has played 179 international matches in which he scored 423 goals. At the World Handball Championship in Germany in 2007, he scored 18 goals in eight games. With Hungary he took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and some 2012 in London, where the team each finished fourth.