Jöri Mattli

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland  Jöri Mattli Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 18, 1954
place of birth Arosa , Switzerland
date of death August 26, 1991
Place of death Medergen , Switzerland
Nickname Arrow from Arosa
Size 174 cm
Weight 68 kg
position striker
number # 17
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1970-1974 EHC Arosa
1974-1976 EHC Kloten
1976-1987 EHC Arosa

Georg "Jöri" Mattli (born October 18, 1954 in Arosa , † August 26, 1991 in Medergen ) was a Swiss ice hockey player who played between 1970 and 1987 mainly for EHC Arosa .

Career

Jöri Mattli, who grew up in Arosa, went through his junior career at EHC Arosa . He owed the nickname "Arrow from Arosa" not only to his speed, but above all to his great skating class. In 1970 the winger played for the first time in the first team. In the following years he became more and more become a supporting pillar of the club with which he 1973 in the National League B and - after a two-year stint from 1974 to 1976 for EHC Kloten 1977 in the - National League A rising.

Mattlis' most successful years in sport followed: As a strike partner of the brothers Markus and Guido Lindemann , he won the championship title with the EHC Arosa in 1980 and 1982 . He also finished second with this team in 1981 and 1984, and third in the Swiss championship in 1985. In addition to his teammates Merlin Malinowski and Guido Lindemann, he was one of the most successful ice hockey players in Switzerland at that time. Mattli also played various international matches and world championships with the national team , of which he was temporarily the captain .

As a 21-year-old he played the 1976 Olympic ice hockey tournament in Innsbruck . At the B-World Championships in Belgrade in 1978 Mattli scored 11 goals and was chosen as the fourth best scorer and best left wing in the all-star team of this tournament. At the 1981 World Championships in Ortisei , Mattli managed a classic hat trick in the last minutes of the encounter against Japan . Participation in the 1980 Olympic ice hockey tournament in Lake Placid was denied to the Swiss team - including Jöri Mattli - due to a formal error by the Swiss Ice Hockey Association (SEHV). In those weeks, Mattli spoke positively in the press about Chur Graubünden's candidacy to host the 1988 Winter Olympics in Arosa, Chur , Laax and Lenzerheide .

After EHC Arosa's voluntary relegation to the first division in 1986 , Mattli played for his home club for a year before ending his playing career in 1987. The trained carpenter then worked as a self-employed farmer in the Sunnenrüti near Langwies . The father of three children died of a heart attack at the age of almost 37 while cultivating one of his mountain meadows .

Georg Mattli was an uncle of Snowboard - Olympic champion Gian Simmen .

swell

  • Elmar Brunner: 70 years of EHC Arosa - A village makes Swiss sports history , self-published by F&L Planungen AG / Store Line AG, Chur 1994, pp. 122 ff., 137 ff., 172, 177 ff.
  • Hans Danuser : Arosa - as it was then , vol. 6 (1979–1995), self-published by Danuser, Arosa 2002, p. 184.
  • Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then , vol. 5 (1962–1978), self-published by Danuser, Arosa 2001, pp. 205, 230 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aroser Zeitung of February 15, 2013, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Mattli, Jöri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mattli, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Arosa
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1991
Place of death Medergen