Miro Sikora

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Flag of Poland and Germany.svg  Miro Sikora Ice hockey player
Date of birth 5th October 1957
place of birth Katowice , Poland
size 180 cm
Weight 80 kg
position striker
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1979-1994 Cologne EC

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / file type

Miroslav Sikora (born October 5, 1957 in Katowice ) is a former German - Polish ice hockey player and official.

Career

Miro Sikora began his career in Germany in 1977 at the Cologne EC in a curious way: When the Polish U20 national team was at a training camp in Cologne , he left his team on a free afternoon on August 10, 1977 and hid the whole day in a cinema until he contacted another Polish player who was already playing in Germany at the time. He was then banned for all games in the Bundesliga as well as for games in the European Cup and in national teams for 18 months .

After his suspension expired, he played actively for the Cologne EC from 1979 to 1994. With the Haie team he was German champion five times and in 1985 he came second in the European Cup . In total, Sikora played 644 games in the Bundesliga for the Cologne team, with 838 scorer points making him one of the most successful players in league history. The shirt number 11, with which Sikora played for the Cologne EC for 15 years, will no longer be given to any other player in his honor at the KEC. In 1986 he was the top scorer of the Bundesliga main round and was elected to the league's All-Star Team. He was also the top scorer of the Bundesliga playoffs in 1982 and 1987.

Following his career as a player, he worked for four years as the manager of the Kölner Haie, until he was fired in 1998 and retired from ice hockey.

International

Under the name Miroslaw Sikora, Sikora, who was named Miroslav by the press in the mid-1980s, competed in the 1976 World Junior Championships for his native Poland. Naturalized in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1986, he took part in the DEB selection at the 1987 World Cup. On his debut at the World Cup, there were some irritations among the German opponents, as Sikora had already played for the Polish selection in his youth. The protests put in by the other teams were rejected by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF .

Achievements and Awards

  • 1986 Bundesliga All-Star Team
  • 1987 German champion with the Cologne EC
  • 1987 top scorer in the Bundesliga playoffs
  • 1988 German champion with the Cologne EC

Private

In August 1984 his daughter was born. In 1988 he married his wife, with whom he still lives today.

Since end of his career he has played in his free time golf at the Golf Club at the old Fliess near Cologne. There he was club champion in 2004 and vice club champion in 2007. In 2014 he was promoted to the regional league of the German Golf League with the club team . In addition, he supports the AK 50 team (formerly senior citizens) in the respective league games as a player.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Why me? in Der Spiegel on May 4, 1987, accessed on November 13, 2016
  2. ^ "Sikora case" - Vienna court decides the 1987 Worlds medal race (English) at iihf.com, accessed on November 13, 2016
  3. ↑ Mr. Rücksicht in Der Spiegel of April 27, 1984, accessed on November 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Sikora, Miro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sikora, Miroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish ice hockey player and official
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice , Poland