Jiří Kalous

Jiří Kalous
Date of birth	December 6, 1964
place of birth	Chomutov , Czechoslovakia
position	striker
Career stations
until 1984	VTŽ Chomutov
1984-1986	VTJ Sušice
1986-1989	I. ČLTK Prague
1990-1992	EC Ehrwald

Jiří Kalous (born December 6, 1964 , in Chomutov ) is a former ice hockey player and currently ice hockey coach. He has been an assistant trainer at HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk since 2018 .

Career

In 1970, he started playing ice hockey in his hometown of Chomutov . Between 1970 and 1979 he prepared for his later career first in the student league, then in the junior league. During his time at the high school in Chomutov, he played as a striker for VTŽ Chomutov in the 1st division of Czechoslovakia . 1984 to 1986 he did his military service and played for the second division side VTJ Sušice .

University studies and engagement in Austria

Jiří Kalous
Coaching stations
1992-1994	EC Ehrwald
1994-1995	H + S Beroun HC
1995-2002	HC Slavia Prague (U20)
1997-2009	HC Slavia Prague (professionals)
1998-2003	U18 / U20 national teams
2009–2012	Bílí Tygři Liberec
2012-2013	HC Lev Prague
2013-2015	HC Oceláři Třinec
2015-2018	National team Czech Republic (Ass.)
2016-2017	HC Sparta Prague

After completing his military service, he began studying training methodology with a specialization in ice hockey at the Faculty of Sports Education and Sports Science at Charles University in Prague . In 1993 he successfully passed the state examination.

During his studies he played for three years (1986-1989) for the ice hockey club I. ČLTK Prague , before moving to Austria as a player for the first division club EC Ehrwald in the 1991/92 season. A season later he became the club's coach and led him to win the title in the Austrian National League ( 1993 ) . At that time he was 26 years old.

Return to the Czech Republic

In 1994 Kalous returned to the Czech Republic from Austria and trained with H + S Beroun HC for one season . In 1995 he moved to HC Slavia Prague , where he worked for the following 14 years. He began as a coach with the juniors, with whom he won the junior league title in the first year (1995/996). He accompanied HC Slavia Prague for one season as an assistant coach, only to lead the HC Slavia Prague juniors to the title again a year later (1997/1998). From 1998 to 2003 he was the coach of the Czech national junior team (born in 1983) and coached the U20 team of HC Slavia Prague. With the national team of juniors he finished 4th at the U18 World Cup in Finland in 2001.

In 2002, Kalous was in the extra league team of Slavia Prague at the side of Vladimír Růžička and Ondřej Weissmann , mainly responsible for planning and preparing the training processes, the individual preparation of the players and the fitness training. In the 2002/03 season they celebrated the team's first extra league title in the club's recent history. In 2003/2004 and 2005/2006 they took the team to 2nd place in the Extraliga. After the 2006/2007 season, Ondřej Weissmann left the team of three. Kalous and Růžička led the team in the following season (2007/2008) again to win the title in the Extraliga. One season later (2008/2009) the team finished second in the table.

After his engagement at HC Slavia Prague, Kalous moved to the 2009/10 season as head coach for the extra league club Bílí Tygři Liberec . He looked after the team for three years until the end of the 2011/12 season and reached the play-offs with her, two of them the semi-finals.

For the 2012/13 season he moved to the newly founded Prague KHL team HC Lev Prague and became assistant coach to Josef Jandač . After a successful start to the season there was a series of failures that led to the dismissal of head coach Josef Jandač. Kalous stayed with the team and was temporarily head coach of the team before Václav Sýkora took over the team. At the beginning of 2013 Kalous ended his engagement with HC Lev Prague.

From the 2013/14 season he was the head coach of HC Oceláři Třinec before he was recalled in November 2015. For the 2016/17 season he was head coach at HC Sparta Prague . At the same time, he has been an assistant coach for the Czech national team since 2015 . In October 2017 he was fired from HC Sparta Prague.

successes

• 1993 Champion of the Austrian National League with the EC Ehrwald ( as coach )
• 1996 champion of the junior extra league with HC Slavia Prague ( as coach )
• 1998 Champion of the junior extra league with HC Slavia Prague ( as coach )
• 2003 Czech champion with HC Slavia Prague ( as assistant coach )
• 2004 Czech runner-up with HC Slavia Prague ( as assistant coach )
• 2006 Czech runner-up with HC Slavia Prague ( as assistant coach )
• 2008 Czech champion with HC Slavia Prague ( as assistant coach )
• 2009 Czech runner-up with HC Slavia Prague ( as assistant coach )
• 2015 Czech runner-up with HC Oceláři Třinec ( as head coach )

Web links

• Jiří Kalous at eliteprospects.com (English)