František Vaněk

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František Vaněk
Date of birth December 3, 1931
place of birth Uherský Ostroh , Czechoslovakia
Nickname professor
size 174 cm
Weight 70 kg
position center
number # 9
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1951-1953 SK Královo Pole Brno
1953-1967 ZKL Brno
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Coaching stations
1966-1970 ZKL Brno
1970-1972 HC Olomouc
1972-1974 HC Sierre
1974-1976 Zetor Brno
1976-1980 EHC Biel
1982-1985 Zetor Brno
1985-1987 HC Sierre

František Vaněk (born December 3, 1931 in Uherský Ostroh ) is a former Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach who played on the position of the center. He spent most of his career at the ZKL Brno , with whom he was Czechoslovakian champion eleven times . He is also a member of the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

As a player

Vaněk first came into contact with ice hockey at the local ice hockey club Victoria Uherský Ostroh . At the age of 14 he moved to Slavoj Loštice in 1946 , where he spent the following two seasons. The move to Sokol Mohelnice followed . After three seasons he left the club and got his first professional contract with SK Královo Pole Brno . He stayed there for the next two seasons before moving to Rudá hvězda Brno  (later ZKL Brno ) in 1953 . He spent the next 14 years there and celebrated the most successful period of his career. In 294 championship games he scored 130 goals. He was Czechoslovakian champion eleven times and won the European Cup three times from 1966 to 1968 . He also won the Spengler Cup in 1955 . At Brno he was part of the famous storm line with Josef Černý and Rudolf Scheuer . In his last season as a hockey player Vaněk was active as a player- coach. After the end of his career, his player number 9 was blocked in recognition of his services to the club.

International

Vaněk played for the Czechoslovak national ice hockey team from 1956 to 1963. During this period, he won three bronze and one silver medals at world championships . He also took part in the Winter Olympics of 1956 and 1960 in part. The striker scored 31 goals in more than 150 international matches. In 2009 he was inducted into the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame .

As a trainer

Immediately after his playing career, Vaněk took over the position of coach at TJ ZKL Brno. In 1970 he took over the team at HC Olomouc . He left this club after two years and switched to a western club for the first time in his life. He found a job at the then National League A club HC Sierre , with whom he became vice-champion of the NLA in 1973. After two seasons he returned to his homeland to his former club, which had changed names in the meantime and was now called Zetor Brno . After two seasons, in 1976 he made a new attempt to establish himself in Switzerland. This time he moved to EHC Biel , where the club under the president and patron Willy Gassmann upgraded vigorously and signed numerous well-known players. a. Steve Latinovich or Urs Lott . There Vaněk achieved his first major success as a coach in his second season. With the EHCB he won the first championship title in club history in a thrilling three-way battle with the other two Bern teams, SC Langnau and SC Bern . A year later, the Bieler classed only in fourth place. This, although Vaněk and his team had hopes of the title to the last. In 1980 he was released from Biel. He then returned - for the third time - to Zetor Brno, where he spent the next three seasons. Then Vaněk wanted to try again in Switzerland , he moved to HC Sierre in the NLA for the second time. However, without much success. In 1987 this commitment came to an end again. It should be his last as a professional trainer.

Vaněk was the "silent type" and at the same time a great tactician, which is why the players also named him professor .

Achievements and Awards

International

  • 1956 bronze medal at the European Championships
  • 1957 bronze medal at the world championship
  • 1958 bronze medal at the European championship
  • 1959 bronze medal at the world championship
  • 1959 silver medal at the European Championship
  • 1960 silver medal at the European Championships
  • 1961 silver medal at the world championship
  • 1961 gold medal at the European Championship
  • 1963 bronze medal at the European Championship
  • 1963 bronze medal at the world championship

As a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Frantisek Vanek. Munzinger Archive, accessed April 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Jaroslav Holík s Pouzarem v Síni slávy. Lidovky.cz, April 9, 2009, accessed April 11, 2017 (Czech).
  3. ↑ Kurt Trefzer: The EHC Biel becomes Swiss champion. memreg.ch, May 1, 2005, accessed on April 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ A-League qualification between Langnau and Biel - two former champions in stressful nerves: return of the past . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 29, 2007, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 11, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Vaněk, František
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Uherský Ostroh