Miloš Říha

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Miloš Říha
Date of birth December 6, 1958
place of birth Přerov , Czechoslovakia
size 189 cm
Weight 89 kg
position striker
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1983 , 10th round, 196th position
Minnesota North Stars
Career stations
until 1978 Meochema Přerov
1978-1980 Dukla Jihlava
1980-1983 TJ Vítkovice
1983-1986 TJ Gottwaldov
1986-1987 Zetor Brno

Miloš Říha (born December 6, 1958 in Přerov , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey coach who was last under contract as head coach at HC Slovan Bratislava between 2015 and October 2017 .

Career as a player

Miloš Říha started playing ice hockey in his hometown. Before the season 1978/79 he was obliged by the army club Dukla Jihlava , where he performed his military service. He then joined the TJ Vítkovice , with whom he became Czechoslovakian champion in 1981 . During the 1983 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected by the Minnesota North Stars in the tenth round in 196th place, but never played outside of his home country. Between 1983 and 1986 he went on the ice for TJ Gottwaldov . His last season in the top division of Czechoslovakia, the 1st division , he spent at Zetor Brno . Overall, Říha scored 67 goals in nine seasons and 262 first division games.

Career as a coach

In the following period Říha was player-coach in Hodonín , where he was under contract until 1990. He then became an assistant coach at TJ Gottwaldov, first under Stanislav Prikryl , later under Josef Augusta . After his release during the 1993/94 season, he moved to the position of head coach: Between 1994 and 1996 he looked after the team in his hometown, HC Přerov . In 1996 he moved to HC Pardubice , where he was named the best coach in the Extraliga at the end of the season .

In May 1999 Říha was head coach at HC Becherovka Karlovy Vary , but was dismissed during the 2000/01 season due to sporting failure. Then he was signed by HC Sparta Prague , where he was an interim coach.

From 2001 he worked for several years for the Slovak top club HC Slovan Bratislava and became Slovak champion with them in 2002 and 2005 . In addition, he was named the best coach in the Slovak Extra League after the 2004/05 season . In the following season he coached Chimik Moskowskaja Oblast from the Russian Super League .

Between the summer of 2006 and November 2007 Říha was again the head coach of HC Moeller Pardubice, but was replaced by Jiří Šejba after a very bad start to the season .

From December 2007 Říha was the head coach of HK Spartak Moscow , where he extended his contract to 2011 in 2009. After an unsuccessful start to the 2010/11 season, Říha was fired in October 2010 and found a new job a short time later when he was signed by Atlant Mytishchi . With Atlant he reached the playoff final in 2011, in which his team Salawat Yulayev Ufa was defeated. After this success, Říha was signed by the SKA Saint Petersburg .

In November 2012, Říha was fired from the SKA, although the team was placed in first place in the Western Conference at that time. He then worked as general manager at HC Pardubice before replacing Mojmir Trlicik as head coach at HC Pardubice in January 2013 .

In September of the same year, Říha was signed by HK Awangard Omsk, where he replaced Petri Matikainen, who had been released three days earlier . He was fired by Awangard in March 2013 after the club missed the play-offs. He was then without a job in professional ice hockey, before he returned to HC Pardubice as head coach in January 2015 and replaced the recently dismissed Zdenek Venara .

From the 2015/16 season, Říha was again head coach at Slovan Bratislava before he was dismissed in October 2017 after a series of defeats.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eurohockey.com, SKA St. Petersburg fire coach Milos Riha
  2. ↑ eurohockey.com, Milos Riha named new coach at Avangard , Sept. 19, 2013
  3. ↑ hawk.ru, Милош Ржига - главный тренер "Авангарда"
  4. ↑ radio.cz, Radio Prague - Czech coach Miloš Řiha sacked by Avangard Omsk
personal data
SURNAME Říha, Miloš
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riha, Milos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Přerov , Czechoslovakia