Jan Neliba

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Jan Neliba
Date of birth 5th September 1953
place of birth Příbram , Czechoslovakia
position defender
Career stations
until 1984 TJ SONP Kladno
1984-1986 Lukko Rauma
1986-1987 TJ SONP Kladno
1987-1988 Sports Vaasa
1988-1989 YJK

Jan Neliba (born September 5, 1953 in Příbram , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czechoslovak ice hockey player who has been working as an ice hockey coach since the early 1990s .

Career

As a player in Czechoslovakia and Finland

Jan Neliba began his career in the youth teams of Sokol Obecnice . At the age of 16 he switched to the offspring of TJ Sokol Kladno , with whose junior team he was Czechoslovak junior champion in 1970 and 1971. During the 1972/73 season he made his debut for the Kladno men's team in the first division , the top division of the ČSSR, as a right-back. During his military service he played for the army sports club ASD Dukla Jihlava and won the championship of Czechoslovakia with this in the 1973/194 season . In 1975 he returned to his home club and remained loyal to it even after relegation in the 1982/83 season. By then he had won another four championship titles with SONP Kladno - 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1980. In total, he played 629 games for SONP Kladno, in which he scored 65 goals, including 30 first division goals in 374 games.

Due to his success, Neliba was allowed to move to Western Europe in 1984. There he played for Lukko Rauma in the SM-liiga as well as Vaasan Sport from the I-divisioona and YJK from the third-class II-divisioona for two years .

International

Jan Neliba was an integral part of the Czechoslovak national team at the end of the 1980s . In 1980 he represented Czechoslovakia at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid . He also took part in the 1981 World Cup , where he won the bronze medal, and the Canada Cup . In a total of 59 international matches for the national team, he scored 4 goals.

Successful trainer in the Czech Republic

Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Jan Neliba
Jan Neliba
Coaching stations
1993-1996 HC Kladno
1996-1998 HC Petra Vsetín
1998-1999 KalPa Kuopio
1999-2005 HC Vsetín
2005-2007 BK Mladá Boleslav
2007-2008 HK Nitra
2008-2009 HC must
2009-2010 Orli Znojmo
2010-2011 HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi
2011–2012 HC Slovan Bratislava
2012-2013 SAPA Fehervar AV19
2013-2014 MsHK Garmin Žilina
Rytíři Kladno

After the end of his playing career, Neliba became a hockey coach. From 1993 he formed a coaching duo with Zdeněk Müller at his home club. In the first season of the Extraliga Neliba won the main round with HC Kladno and finished the season in third place. This third rank is up to now (2014) the best placement for the club since the founding of the Extraliga. Neliba and Müller coached the club until the end of the 1995/96 season, before Neliba was hired by HC Petra Vsetín as head coach. With his new club he won the Czech championship in 1997 and 1998 . Then he was a coach at KalPa Kuopio in Finland for a year before he returned to HC Petra Vsetín as an assistant coach. With Vsetín he won another Czech championship in 2001. During the 2003/04 season he was poached from HC České Budějovice and hired as head coach, but could not prevent relegation to the second division. He then returned to HC Vsetín, where he worked as an assistant coach until the end of the 2004/05 season. During the following season he was committed by BK Mladá Boleslav from the second division of the Czech Republic as head coach, but dismissed during the 2006/07 season.

Coach in Slovakia and 1st division

In January 2007 Neliba was taken from HK Nitra from the Slovak Extraliga as head coach and held this position until the end of the 2007/08 season. He then played for two years in the Czech second division - first with HC Most , then with Orli Znojmo . In the 2010/11 season he was in charge of the HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi junior team , which took part in the U20 extra league. He then became head coach of the U20 juniors of HC Slovan Bratislava , before he was promoted to head coach of the men's team in late January 2012 ( replacing the dismissed Stefan Mikes ), with whom he won the Slovak championship at the end of the season . In the summer of 2012, Slovan Bratislava was accepted into the KHL and a new head coach, Rostislav Čada, was hired . In October 2012, the Hungarian EBEL participant SAPA Fehervar AV19 fired his head coach Kevin Primeau and replaced him with Jan Neliba. At the end of the season, however, Neliba agreed with the club to terminate the contract after moderate sporting results.

A few weeks later he was introduced as the new head coach at MsHK Žilina from the Slovak Extraliga, but resigned from this position in December 2013. After his hometown club, which was now called Rytíři Kladno , had dismissed its coaching team due to a bad sporting performance, Neliba became the assistant coach of Jiří Čelanský there in the middle of the same month . But even the new coaching team could not prevent relegation to the second division at the end of the season.

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d rytirikladno.cz, Trenér Jan Neliba oslaví kulaté narozeniny
  2. ↑ laola1.at, Neliba new Fehervar coach , October 17, 2012
  3. ↑ hockey-news.info, Transfer-News: SAPA Fehervar separates from Coach ( memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 12th March 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hockey-news.info
  4. ↑ hokej.idnes.cz, Neliba je po 17 letech zpátky doma: Vážím si, že se můžu vrátit , December 19, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Neliba, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Příbram , Czechoslovakia