Christof Kreutzer

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GermanyGermany  Christof Kreutzer Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 26, 1967
place of birth Krefeld Uerdingen , Germany
size 175 cm
Weight 78 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1985-1987 Düsseldorfer EG
1987-1988 SC Solingen
1988-1989 EC Ratingen
1989-1997 Düsseldorfer EG
GermanyGermany  Christof Kreutzer
Christof Kreutzer (2015)

Christof Kreutzer (2015)
Coaching stations
2008-2009 Düsseldorfer EG U18
2009-2010 Düsseldorfer EG U18
DEG Metro Stars II
2010–2012 Düsseldorfer EG U18
2012-2017 Düsseldorfer EG
2018-2020 EC Bad Nauheim

Christof Kreutzer (born May 26, 1967 in Uerdingen ) is a former German ice hockey player ( defender ) and today's coach and official. His brother Daniel was also a hockey player. Christof Kreutzer was named Trainer of the Year in 2016.

Career

As a player

Christof Kreutzer learned to play ice hockey in the youth of the Düsseldorfer EG . In the 1985/86 season he was used for the first time in the Bundesliga team in Düsseldorf . However, he was not able to assert himself in the first two years on the Rhine and in 1987 moved to SC Solingen for one year and then to EC Ratingen in the 2nd Bundesliga for another season . In the 1989/90 season, the Düsseldorf team brought him back to the Bundesliga, where he played until 1997 and won a total of five championships with DEG ( 1990 , 1991 , 1992 , 1993 , 1996 ).

As a trainer

For several seasons, Christof Kreutzer was the coach of both the 1b team (DEG II) in the Regionalliga NRW and the DNL team of DEG. Since the regional league team was dissolved by an increase in age in the DNL, ​​he then concentrated on the DNL team. After the end of the Metro AG sponsorship , Kreutzer was appointed assistant trainer to DEG. In the 2014/15 season , Kreutzer became the head coach of his club. In the 2014/15 season, Kreutzer had led DEG to the DEL semi-finals, so that the Rhinelander qualified for the Champions Hockey League (CHL). In 2015/16, DEG, under Kreutzer's leadership, was eliminated from the DEL quarter-finals, while the CHL reached the sixteenth-finals. In 2016/17 he missed the playoff participation in the German Ice Hockey League with DEG as eleventh in the main round. He was removed from office after the end of the 2016/17 season.

Since the 2018/19 season Christof Kreutzer has been responsible as head coach for EC Bad Nauheim in the DEL2 . The club had confirmed this at a press conference on April 5, 2018. His contract with the Düsseldorfer EG, which actually ran until April 30, 2019, was terminated by mutual agreement.

On January 7, 2020 it was announced that Kreutzer will fill the position of sporting director at Schwenninger Wild Wings from May 1, 2020 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Schulze: The end of the Kreutzer era. In: http://www.rp-online.de/ . Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Christof Kreutzer becomes a trainer in Bad Nauheim. In: eishockey.info. April 5, 2018, accessed March 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Düsseldorfer EG: Düsseldorfer EG dissolves contract with Christof Kreutzer. In: https://www.deg-eishockey.de/ . Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Schwenninger Wild Wings: Christof Kreutzer becomes the new sporting director. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
Logo of the Schwenninger Wild Wings
Squad of the Schwenninger Wild Wings in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Kreutzer, Christof
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreutzer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Uerdingen