Ľubomír Švajlen

Ľubomír Švajlen

Player information
Nickname	"Lubo"
birthday	17th February 1964
place of birth	Košice , Czechoslovakia
citizenship	Slovak
height	1.95 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-0000	TJ VSŽ Košice
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1992	ŠKP Bratislava
1992-1998	Fotex Veszprém
1998-2001	Grasshopper Club Zurich
2001-2006	HC Yellow-Black Stäfa
2006–5 / 2008	GC Amicitia Zurich
9 / 2008-2009	GC Amicitia Zurich
National team
	Games (goals)
Czechoslovakia Slovakia	149 26
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
0000-2006	Kadetten Schaffhausen (goalkeeping coach)
2006-2011	GC Amicitia Zurich (assistant trainer)
9/2008–2013	Switzerland (assistant coach)
0000-2006	Kadetten Schaffhausen (goalkeeping coach)
2013–	HC Kriens-Luzern (goalkeeping coach)
As of April 11, 2014

Ľubomír Švajlen (born February 17, 1964 in Košice ) is a former Slovak handball player and today's handball coach .

The 1.95 m tall and 92 kg heavy Švajlen was a handball goalkeeper . He started playing handball in his hometown at TJ VSŽ Košice . With ŠKP Bratislava , then CH Bratislava, he won the Czechoslovak Cup in 1989. From 1992 to 1998 he played for the top Hungarian club Fotex Veszprém , with whom he won the Hungarian Cup in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1998 and in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1998. With Fotex he also took part in the EHF Champions League several times , in the 1996/97 European Cup Winners' Cup he lost to Bidasoa Irún in the final . He then played for three years for the Swiss club Grasshopper Club Zurich . In 2001 he moved to HC Yellow-Black Stäfa . In 2006 he became player-coach at GC Amicitia Zurich . In the 2007/08 championship final, he had a brief stint, holding three seven meters and thus making a decisive contribution to the title.

Ľubomir Švajlen played 149 international matches for the Czechoslovak national team . At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, he finished sixth. At the 1990 World Cup in his own country, he finished seventh. In Barcelona he came ninth at the 1992 Olympic Games . At the 1993 World Cup , he was seventh again. He then ran 26 times for Slovakia . Švajlen was voted handball player of the year in Slovakia in 1990, 1993 and 1994.

After his active career, Švajlen was goalkeeping coach with the Kadetten Schaffhausen and from 2006 with Amicitia. From September 2008 he was also the assistant coach of Goran Perkovac in the Swiss men's national handball team . Since 2013 he has been looking after the goalkeepers of the Swiss club HC Kriens-Luzern .

His son Michal Svajlen is a Swiss national handball player.

Web links

• Ľubomír Švajlen on the HC Kriens-Luzern website
• Ľubomír Švajlen in the database of the European Handball Federation
• Ľubomír Švajlen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.origo.hu Szlovák kézikapust vehet az MKB Veszprém (Hungarian) accessed on April 11, 2014
2. ↑ www.nzz.ch SPORTS FACTS from April 12, 2001, accessed on April 11, 2014
3. ↑ www.nzz.ch The ZMC Amicitia replaces the cadets on May 26, 2008, accessed on April 11, 2014
4. ↑ ^{a b} www.forevervszkosice.sk Osobnosti hádzanej v ČSSR ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Slovak) accessed on April 11, 2014
5. ↑ sala.dnes24.sk Hádzaná: Pileková najlepšou pravou krídelníčkou na Slovensku! (Slovak) from April 1, 2012, accessed April 11, 2014
6. ↑ www.handball-world.com Kostadinovich trains Grasshoppers - Svajlen becomes assistant from July 2, 2006, accessed on April 11, 2014
7. ↑ www.handball-world.com Switzerland: Zobrist becomes head of the national team, Svajlen goalkeeper coach from August 31, 2008, accessed on April 11, 2014
8. ↑ www.news.ch Kriens-Luzern with new goalie trainer from July 26, 2013, accessed on April 11, 2014