Albin Felc

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Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia  Albin Felc Ice hockey player
Albin Felc
Date of birth May 14, 1941
place of birth Jesenice , Yugoslavia
size 175 cm
Weight 68 kg
position striker
Career stations
1958-1971 HK Jesenice
1971-1974 EHC Olten
1974-1975 EHC Arosa
1975-1976 Asiago Hockey
1976-1977 KHL Medveščak Zagreb
1977-1988 HC Canazei
1978-1982 HK Celje

Albin Felc (born May 14 , 1941 in Jesenice , Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav ice hockey player and coach.

Career

At the beginning of his sports career, Albin Felc worked in Jesenice ironworks and received food stamps for use in ice hockey.

society

Felc began his active career at HK Jesenice in the Yugoslav Ice Hockey League for the 1958/59 season . By the end of his playing career, he scored 458 goals in the national ice hockey league, which was a league record until 1971, and won 14 championship titles.

He then moved to Switzerland, playing from 1971 to 1974 as the first foreigner at EHC Olten , where he was later voted the best player of all time. returned to his hometown club in 1982/83 and coached the Italian SHC Fassa in 1984/85 .

International

Albin Felc was a member of the Yugoslav national ice hockey team from 1961 to 1979 . In total, he scored 82 goals for them and gave 91 assists in 155 games. He represented his country at nine World Championships and the Winter Olympics in 1964 , 1968 and 1972 .

At the ice hockey world championship in Innsbruck in 1964 , he was together with Japan's Masahiro Sato top scorer with 12 goals each, which is an Olympic record. At the B World Championship in 1968 he reached first place with Yugoslavia. As the top scorer, he contributed 6 goals and 5 assists and was elected to the All-Star team. Due to the reduction in the A group, he was never able to participate in an A World Cup even after this success with the national team.

In 1969, he was among the three Yugoslav (Slovenian) ice hockey players who first played in the jersey of a professional NHL team. It was a summer series for exhibition fights. Beside him, Victor Tišlar played for the St. Louis Blues and the goalkeeper Jože Bogomir Jan for the Chicago Blackhawks .

Award

For his achievements he was accepted into the Slovenian Ice Hockey Hall of Fame on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Slovenian ice hockey when it was founded in 2007 . In 2012 he was also accepted into the Hall of Slovenian Sports Heroes.

Private

His daughter Sabina played for the Slovenian national basketball team .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kratka Istorija Hokeja u Jugoslaviji. HK Partizan , accessed November 10, 2013 (Slovenian).
  2. ↑ 78 years of ice hockey in Olten. EHC Olten, accessed on November 10, 2013 ( PDF version, 332 kB ).
  3. ↑ Mojca Finc: Albin Felc, v 71. letu z vsem Zarom na Ledeni ploskvi. (Not available online.) In: Delo.si . February 13, 2012, archived from the original on November 10, 2013 ; accessed on November 10, 2013 (Slovenian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.delo.si
  4. ^ John Grigg: Olympic records. In: The Hockey News . February 24, 2010, accessed November 10, 2013 .
  5. ↑ CR: HZS sprejel 60 imen v hram slavnih. In: RTV SLO . April 17, 2007, accessed November 10, 2013 (Slovenian).
  6. ^ Joze Zidar: Slovenian Sports Hall of Fame launched. Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive, December 30, 2012, accessed November 10, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Felc, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Jesenice , Yugoslavia