Ján Starší

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SlovakiaSlovakia  Ján Starší Ice hockey player
IIHF Hall of Fame , 1999
Date of birth October 17, 1933
place of birth Sokolče , Czechoslovakia
date of death April 13, 2019
Place of death Bratislava , Slovakia
Nickname Jano
position striker
Career stations
1945–1952 ŠK Liptovský Mikuláš
1952-1954 HC Slovan Bratislava
1954-1956 HC Sparta Prague
1956-1966 HC Slovan Bratislava

Ján "Jano" Starší (born October 17, 1933 in Sokolče ; † April 13, 2019 in Bratislava ) was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach . As a trainer, he was twice German champion .

Career as a player

Ján Starší began his career as a player in 1945 at ŠK Liptovský Mikuláš . In 1952 he moved to the top club HC Slovan Bratislava . Another station was the HC Sparta Prague , where he played between 1954 and 1956, before completing another ten seasons with Slovan Bratislava. With Slovan he was five times runner-up in Czechoslovakia. In the 1959/60 season he was also the top scorer in the first division with 26 goals . By the end of his career, Starší played 300 league games in 14 seasons of the first division, in which he scored 267 goals.

The goal-scoring striker was also very successful in the national team of Czechoslovakia: He took part in the 1960 Winter Olympics and five world championships and scored 29 goals in a total of 73 international games. He also won two bronze and one silver medal at world championships. In the early 1960s he was one of the top players in his country and was on the ice with Vladimír Dzurilla , Karel Gut , Jozef Golonka and Gustav Bubník , among others . After the 1963 World Cup in Stockholm, he ended his international career.

Career as a coach

SlovakiaSlovakia  Ján Starší
Coaching stations
1966-1968 FC Bayern Munich
1968-1973 HC Slovan Bratislava
1973-1979 Czechoslovak national team
1979-1982 SC Riessersee
1988-1992 SB Rosenheim

Even more successful than the player was the coach Ján Starší, who first studied sport at the University of Bratislava , did his doctorate and later became a lecturer there. After this period of training in the ČSSR, he started his coaching career in 1966 with the ice hockey department of FC Bayern Munich , which he led to the Bundesliga in 1967 . He then returned to his homeland and was head coach of HC Slovan Bratislava between 1968 and 1973 - this club is the only one with which he did not win a title.

In 1973 he was signed by the Ice Hockey Federation of Czechoslovakia and he coached the national team together with Karel Gut. The two national coaches won the world championship title in 1976 and 1977 and achieved the Olympic silver medal in Innsbruck in 1976 and four silver medals at world championships. In 1979 the most successful coaching duo in ČSSR history split up, with both coaches switching to German teams. Karel Gut was signed by EV Landshut and won the German championship with it. Starší, however, signed a contract with SC Riessersee and became German champions with the Garmisch team in 1981 . In 1982 he was ordered back to Czechoslovakia and became a member of the coaching council of the ČSSR. He also worked as a lecturer at the University of Bratislava. Together with František Pospíšil , he trained again for the national team from 1985 and won the bronze medal at the 1987 World Cup.

In 1988 he returned to Germany and looked after SB Rosenheim . In the first season he won the championship title in 1989 with his new team . After the political change, the master coach went back to Slovakia and helped to set up the Slovak Ice Hockey Association . Since then he has worked in an advisory capacity for this association and its parent club, HC Slovan Bratislava. He also plays tennis as a hobby.

1997 Dr. Ján Starší inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in the Trainer category. In 2002 he was honored with the admission into the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame . A year later he was awarded the Slovak Cross of Merit, Second Class, the Rad Ľudovíta Štúra . In 2009 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame Germany because of his services to German ice hockey. The laudation for the admission was given by his former player Ernst Höfner , with whom he became German champion in 1981 and 1989 and who is now the national coach of the DEB youth team.

Private

Ján Starší died in April 2019 at the age of 85 in Bratislava.

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As a trainer

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b eishockeymuseum.de, Dr. Jano Starsi
  2. ↑ a b eishockeymuseum.de, The new members 2009 in the Hall of Fame Germany
  3. ↑ scr-privat.de, Stars - Dr. Jano Starsi
  4. ↑ sienslavy.sk, Ján Starší - Útočník, Tréner dvojnásobných majstrov sveta, Hokejový profesor
  5. ↑ Lothar Martin: Player and coach legend Dr. Jan Starsi died at the age of 85. In: eishockeynews.de. April 14, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Starší, Ján
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Starsi, Jan; Starší, Jano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Sokolče
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2019
Place of death Bratislava , Slovakia