Earvin N'Gapeth
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| Full name | Earvin N'Gapeth | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||
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February 12, 1991 Saint-Raphaël, Var, France |
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| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 93 kg (205 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 358 cm (141 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Block | 327 cm (129 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Outside Spiker | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Azimut Modena | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Earvin N'Gapeth (born 12 February 1991) is a French volleyball player, a member of France men's national volleyball team and Italian club Azimut Modena. He was 2015 European Champion, gold medalist of the 2015 World League, French Champion (2010), and Italian Champion (2016).
His father Éric, who hails from Cameroon, is a former volleyball player that represented France in the 1980s.
In December 2014, he was sentenced to three months suspended imprisonment by the Criminal Court of Montpellier for a fight in a nightclub in the city a few months earlier. In July 2015, he was arrested and heard in open hearing by the police following the assault of a TGV train controller Paris-Montparnasse train station.
In season 2008-09 he debuted into professional volleyball, hired by Tours VB, where he stayed for three seasons and winner Pro A League. In season 2011-12 he was hired in the Italian team of Cuneo Piemonte in Serie A1 League, where he remained for two seasons. With the team, he reached the final of CEV Europe League. N'gapeth in the next year moved to Kuzbass Kemerovo, a club playing in Super League; however, during the season he abandoned the team and returned to Italy, wearing the shirt of Modena in the Serie A1. With Modena, he won the 2014-15 Italian Cup. and the 2015-16 Italian Championship, Italian Cup and Italian Supercup. In the season 2015-16 he won his second Italian Supercup.
On October 7, 2010 he was expelled from the national team on disciplinary grounds during World Championship held in Italy. He came back to national team at European Championship 2011. In 2014 played at World Championship 2014 held in Poland. France lost the match for the bronze medal with Germany and took 4th place. He was one of the key players in the 2015 World League championship campaign. On October 18, 2015 French national team, including N'Gapeth, achieved title of the European Champion 2015 (3–0 with Slovenia in the finale).
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