Josef Paleček (ice hockey player)

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Josef Paleček (born May 5, 1949 in Starý Kolín , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czechoslovak ice hockey player who has been working as an ice hockey coach since the late 1980s. Between May 2008 and November 2009 he was under contract with the Czech first division club HC Energie Karlovy Vary .

Career as a player

Josef Paleček began his career in 1958 in the Tatra Kolín youth team . Eight years later he made his debut for the club in his hometown in the second division of the Czechoslovak Republic before moving to the first division club Tesla Pardubice in 1967 . In 1973 he won the championship of Czechoslovakia with Pardubice and remained loyal to the club with the exception of the 1977/78 season to 1980. As part of his military service, he completed the 1977/78 season at ASD Dukla Jihlava . He scored a total of 171 goals in 451 first division games.

In 1980 he moved to the second division stadium Hradec Králové , for whom he worked as a player-coach. Because of his success, Paleček was allowed to move to Western Europe in 1983. His first stop was at ESV Kaufbeuren in the ice hockey Bundesliga , for which he played ten games before moving to the second division for Augsburg EV . In 1984 he decided to move to EHC Linz in the Austrian National League , where he spent two seasons. His last station as a player was HC Wels from Wels (Upper Austria) , where he ended his playing career in 1988.

International

Josef Paleček was an integral part of the Czechoslovak national team in the early 1970s . He had his first use in an international competition at the Junior European Championship in 1968. Later he took part in three world championships, where he won a gold ( 1972 ), a silver ( 1974 ) and a bronze medal ( 1973 ). In 62 games for the national team, he scored 16 goals.

Career as a coach

After gaining experience as a player- coach at the Hradec Králové stadium in the early 1980s , Josef Paleček continued his coaching career after returning to the ČSSR. First he worked as a junior coach at Tesla Pardubice, before he became assistant coach to Vladimír Martinec at Pardubice in 1990 . Between 1991 and 1992 he worked as the head coach of Tesla Pardubice. In the mid-1990s he was in charge of Denmark's junior national team before he took over the coaching position at HC Pardubice again in 1995. Between 1996 and 1998 he was again assistant coach at HC Pardubice, this time behind Miloš Říha . He also held the post of sports director. For the 1999/2000 season , HC Pardubice signed the coaching duo Milan Chalupa and Pavel Marek . However, since the team missed the play-offs and had to play in the league delegation, the duo was dismissed and replaced by Josef Paleček and Petr Hemský . Paleček remained the team's head coach until 2002, before taking over the Bílí Tygři Liberec in 2003 . With the White Tigers he reached third place in the Extraliga in the 2004/05 season and thus the greatest success in the club's history. In the 2006/07 season , the team repeated this success, but Paleček resigned after the season. In May 2008 he signed a one-year contract with HC Energie Karlovy Vary . With his new team he won the Czech championship in 2009, before he was released in November 2009 after a series of defeats.

Between 2006 and 2008 and 2012 he looked after the Czech national team as assistant coach to Alois Hadamczik and took part in the 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2011 and 2012 World Championships . He won the silver medal in 2006 and the bronze medal in 2011 and 2012.

In 2016 Josef Paleček was inducted into the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Největší trenérské úspěchy - Josef Paleček. In: olympic.cz. Retrieved November 20, 2017 (Czech).
  2. ↑ a b sportovci.cz, profile Josef Paleček  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sportovci.cz  
  3. ↑ a b historie.hcpce.cz, Josef Paleček
  4. ↑ hokejkv.cz, Josef Paleček - profile nového kouče
  5. ↑ hokej.idnes.cz: Do hokejové Síně slávy byli uvedeni Bednář, Paleček, Špaček a Adamec article of November 3, 2016 (Czech)
personal data
SURNAME Paleček, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palecek, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Starý Kolín , Czechoslovakia