Eilert Määttä

Eilert Määttä
Date of birth	September 22, 1935
place of birth	Kiruna , Sweden
date of death	May 7, 2011
Place of death	Södertälje , Sweden
position	striker
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1956-1963	Skellefteå AIK
1963-1972	Södertälje SK

Yngve Eilert Määttä (born September 22, 1935 in Kiruna ; † May 7, 2011 in Södertälje ) was a Swedish ice hockey player and coach .

Career

Eilert Määttä began his career as a hockey player at Skellefteå AIK , for whose professional team he was in Division 1 , the then highest Swedish league, atkviw ar from 1956 to 1963 . He then played for another nine years for his league rivals Södertälje SK , where he ended his active career in 1972 at the age of 37.

In the 1978/79 season Määttä was active as the head coach of Djurgårdens IF from the Elitserien .

International

For Sweden Määttä took part in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , where he and his team won the silver medal. He was also in his country's squad at the World Championships in 1957 , 1962 , 1963 , 1965 and 1967 . At the World Championships in 1957 and 1962, he won the gold medal with his team. As the best European team, Sweden also became European champions. At the World Championships in 1963 and 1967 he and his team won the silver medal and the bronze medal at the 1965 World Cup.

successes

winter Olympics

• Innsbruck 1964 : silver medal

World championships

• Moscow 1957 : gold medal
• Colorado Springs / Denver 1962 : gold medal
• Stockholm 1963 : silver medal
• Tampere 1965 : bronze medal
• Vienna 1967 : silver medal

Web links

• Eilert Määttä at eurohockey.com
• Eilert Määttä in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )