Philippe Soutter

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Philippe Soutter (born June 30, 1962 in Winterthur ) is a former floorball player and floorball coach. He is currently an assistant trainer in the NLA team HC Rychenberg Winterthur. He coached the German national team and the Swiss second division (fourth highest division) Regazzi Verbano floorball Gordola.

With his tinted glasses, his coat and his flashy rings, the Winterthur is probably one of the most striking figures on the college hockey scene. He wears the glasses because he is blind in one eye.

Career

Soutter was born and raised in Winterthur . He completed primary school in Winterthur and secondary school in Seuzach . He dropped out of high school and made up his Matura in a boarding school in the canton of Schwyz , before dropping out of studies again. As a result, he was involved in various positions: at various companies in marketing (e.g. for Lamborghini ), as a moderator at Radio Eulach and manager at Eskil Suter's Aprilia team .

He began his floorball career in the 1980s at UHC Winterthur-Eulach , which was playing in the NLB at its best and was dissolved around 1990. In 1990 he was the first UHC Hittnau coach to take over the C-Juniors and one year later he was runner-up with them. Further positions followed, as a coach from Wuppenau, then the Elite Juniors from Rot-Weiss Chur and finally the Elite A Juniors from HC Rychenberg Winterthur in his hometown. He was also Italy's first national coach for a few months until the beginning of 2002 . In spring 2003 he was coach of the first division floorball Thurgau , with whom he was promoted to the National League B in 2005.

After advancing with Floorball Thurgau, he moved as head coach to the NLA at HC Rychenberg Winterthur, where he had previously worked as a junior coach. He stayed there for two years until he moved to the Unihockey Tigers in Emmental in 2007 , where he worked as managing director and trainer in personal union. With Soutter, the Tigers were cup winners in their first season and made it to the playoff final in the league. Two years later they succeeded in the same feat again. In 2010, the Tigers won a third Swiss Cup under Soutter, before the coach moved to Ticino in spring 2010.

In Ticino he took over the 3rd league GF club (fifth highest league in Switzerland) Verbano Unihockey , the name of the floorball department of SAG Gordola , because he wants to promote floorball in Ticino and the structures for this are in place in Gordola. Since May 2011 Soutter has also been the coach of the German national floorball team . During the time in Gordola he stepped in again as coach of the Tigers in the 2011/12 season and during this time had a triple mandate. At the 2012 World Cup in Switzerland, he sensationally led the team to fourth place, after the German selection in 2010 only reached 10th place.

After Soutter Verbano led up to the first division, he moved to UHC Uster in 2014 . Due to his workload, Soutter zu Beinn only took over the position of assistant coach in the 2015/2016 season and dissolved his contract with Uster in February 2016 at the beginning of the playouts.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article “Showdown in Brünnli zu Hasle-Rüegsau” by Michael Lüthi and Reto Liniger, page 28, Mittelland-Zeitung of April 17, 2009
  2. ↑ a b Article “In search of down-to-earthness” by Michael Scholz, page 14, Der Landbote from January 23, 2008
  3. ↑ a b HC Rychenberg 2006/2007 season booklet. (PDF file; 2.86 MB) Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ Article Pumas Trophy 2011 from August 29, 2011 on the Zurich Oberland Pumas website. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ News article “The weekend dedicated to preparing for the World Cup” on unihockey.ch from February 13, 2002. Retrieved on December 10, 2012.
  6. ↑ News article “Floorball Thurgau obliges Philippe Soutter” on unihockey.ch from April 28, 2003. Accessed December 10, 2012.
  7. ↑ Article «The departure of an extraterrestrial» by Denis Jeitziner, Der Bund of March 22, 2010
  8. ↑ News message “Philippe Soutter is the new men's national coach” on unihockey-portal.de from May 6, 2011
  9. ↑ News article “Philippe Soutter takes over in Uster” on unihockey.ch from May 23, 2014. Accessed July 31, 2016.
  10. ↑ Uster without soutter in the play-outs. UHC Uster, February 23, 2016, accessed July 31, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Soutter, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss floorball player and floorball coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur