Anders Olsson (ice hockey coach)

Anders Olsson (born May 16, 1975 in Gothenburg ) is a former Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper and today's coach who is currently on the gang as an assistant coach of the EHC Biel in the National League .

Career

At the age of 21, Olsson suffered a serious car accident that left him cuffed to a hospital bed for six months. As a result, Olsson had to end his career as a goalkeeper and became an unusually young ice hockey coach.

After completing his coaching diplomas, he worked as an assistant or head coach for various Swedish teams between 1998 and 2003. In 2003 he moved to the Adler Mannheim , for whom he was on the gang as a junior and assistant coach of the first team. In 2006 he returned to Sweden to HV71 , where he built one of the best training centers in Europe.

In 2015 he moved to HC Davos in Switzerland as a trainer for the elite juniors . After two seasons, he took up the position as assistant coach at EHC Biel . He is the first ever Swede to assist a National League club.

Achievements and Awards

• 2001 Master of Division 2 and promotion to hockeyettan with Bäcken HC (as head coach)
• 2003 German junior champion with the Jungadler Mannheim (as head coach)
• 2005 German junior champion with the Jungadler Mannheim (as head coach)
• 2013 Swedish junior champion with HV71 (as head coach)
• 2014 Swedish junior champion with HV71 (as head coach)

Web links

• Anders Olsson at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beat Moning: An Innovative Perfectionist. Bieler Tagblatt, March 23, 2017, accessed on August 3, 2017 .