Haralds Vasiļjevs

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LatviaLatvia  Haralds Vasiļjevs Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 11, 1952
place of birth Riga , Latvian SSR
position striker
Career stations
1968-1983 Dinamo Riga
1990-1992 ERC Westphalia Dortmund

Haralds Vasiļjevs (born February 11, 1952 in Riga ) is a former Latvian ice hockey player and current coach. During his playing days he was active for Dinamo Riga in the USSR championship . He was responsible for the U17 and U15 teams of the Graz 99ers in their ice hockey academy.

Career

As a player

Vasiļjevs was under contract with Dinamo Riga between 1968 and 1983. During this time he played with the Latvian club for ten years in the then highest Soviet ice hockey league , the Wysschaja Liga . In the 1990/91 and 1991/92 seasons, the offensive player also played 57 games for ERC Westfalen Dortmund , scoring 58 goals and 140 assists . Furthermore, he received 22 penalty minutes. In Dortmund he was active as a player-coach. From 1992 onwards he was only part of the gang as a coach.

As a trainer

The Latvian began his coaching career with an internship at Dinamo Riga, the club he played for 15 years during his playing days. In 1985 another internship followed at HK CSKA Moscow, before he completed his coaching diploma in Moscow in the same year with the qualification “coach of the highest qualification for ice hockey”.

Shortly afterwards, he was engaged by the then management of Dinamo Riga, whose farm team RASMS Riga (also RSchWSM Riga ) Vasiļjevs was on the gang until 1990. In these five years he was with the team in the then second highest Russian league, the Pervaya League , active. In 1990 he moved to Germany and was consequently employed at ERC Westfalen Dortmund, which he led from the regional league to the first division north . His son, the Latvian national player Herberts Vasiļjevs , was also employed at the Dortmund ice hockey club and played for years in various youth teams.

In the summer of 1994 Vasiļjevs accepted a contract offer from Krefeld EV , where he was henceforth responsible for the amateur team in the 2nd division north . He held this job until 1998 and also looked after the junior and student teams. For the 1998/99 season , Doug Mason , the then coach of the KEV professional team in the German Ice Hockey League , appointed him as assistant coach of the Krefeld Penguins. Two years later he made his Trainer A license pass. After Mason was fired at the end of the 2000/01 season , he headed the remaining seven games of the season. During the 2003/04 season Vasiļjevs again took over the post of coach of the penguins. He managed the team on an interim basis a total of two months and took with her as the reigning German champions at the Spengler Cup 2003 in Davos part.

Vasiļjevs was also the coach of the Latvian national team. So he coached the Latvia team between 1999 and 2001. He reached eighth place at the 2000 World Cup in Russia and 13th place in the same competition in 2001 in Germany.

From the end of August 2016, Vasiljevs was temporarily the head coach of the Latvian national team in order to qualify for the 2018 Olympic Games. He then looked after HK Zemgale as head coach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 99ers.at, ( page no longer available , search in web archives: world-class trainer engaged in young talent in Graz! )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / alt.99ers.at
  2. ↑ a b netzeitung.de, Krefeld Penguins exchange trainer Goring ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ Rp Online: Local sports: Haralds Vasiljevs becomes Latvian national coach. In: rp-online.de. August 30, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vasiļjevs, Haralds
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR