Eduard Uvíra

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Flag of the Czech Republic and Germany.svg  Eduard Uvíra Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 12, 1961
place of birth Opava , Czechoslovakia
size 183 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1982 , 5th round, 87th position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1980-1981 CHZ Litvínov
1981-1983 ASD Dukla Jihlava
1983-1985 CHZ Litvínov
1985-1990 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava
1990-1993 EHC Freiburg
1993-1998 EV Landshut
1998-1999 EHC Freiburg
1999-2001 EV Landshut
2001-2002 Munich Barons
2002-2003 EHC Freiburg

Eduard Uvíra (born July 12, 1961 in Opava , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech - German ice hockey player and current coach . His son Sebastian Uvira is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Eduard Uvíra began his career as a hockey player at CHZ Litvínov , for whose senior team he made his debut in the first division , the highest Czechoslovak division, in the 1980/81 season . He then had to do his military service and played from 1981 to 1983 for the army sports club ASD Dukla Jihlava , with whom he was Czechoslovakian champion in the 1981/82 and 1982/83 seasons . Then the defender returned to Litvínov, for which he played another two years in the first division. For the 1985/86 season he moved within the top Czechoslovak division to Slovan ChZJD Bratislava , with whom he was relegated in the 1988/89 season to the 1st SNHL , the Slovak group of the second division in Czechoslovakia. With Bratislava, however, he managed to return directly to the first division in the following season .

From 1990 to 1993 Uvíra played for EHC Freiburg in the ice hockey Bundesliga . After the club's license was withdrawn due to his financial situation, the two-time Olympic participant moved within the ice hockey Bundesliga to EV Landshut , for whom he played in the newly founded German ice hockey league from the 1994/95 season . For the 1998/99 season he returned to EHC Freiburg, which in the meantime competed in the second-rate ice hockey Bundesliga South . From 1999 to 2001 he played for his former club EV Landshut, which is now in the third-class ice hockey league . For the 2001/02 season he returned to the DEL, where he received a contract with the Munich Barons . For the Barons he prepared a goal in 22 games, while he also played eight games for EV Dingolfing from the fourth-class Bayernliga . The last time he was on the ice was in the 2002/03 season in two games for EHC Freiburg in the 2nd Bundesliga before ending his active career at the age of 41.

In the 2011/12 season, Uvíra was the head coach of the U18 juniors of the EV Landshut from the German junior league . For the 2012/13 season he moved to Deggendorfer SC , actually as a junior coach. However, on October 16, 2012, he took over the club's first team. At the beginning of the 2013 season he moved to ERC Ingolstadt as a junior coach for the U-16s, who play in the student league.

International

For Czechoslovakia Uvíra took part in the junior division in the U20 World Junior Championships in 1980 and 1981 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the World Championships in 1982 , 1983 and 1985 as well as at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984 and in Calgary in 1988 . He also played for Czechoslovakia in 1984 at the Canada Cup . At the World Championships in 1982 and 1983 and at the Olympic Winter Games in 1984 he won the silver medal with Czechoslovakia and the gold medal at the 1985 World Championships.

Achievements and Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Uvíra, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uvira, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-German ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Opava , Czechoslovakia