Pietro Cunti

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland  Pietro Cunti Ice hockey player
Date of birth 3rd September 1962
place of birth Chur , Switzerland
Size 181 cm
Weight 82 kg
position striker
number # 10
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1979-1986 EHC Arosa
1986-1987 EHC Chur
1987-1991 SC Bern

Pietro Cunti (born September 3, 1962 in Chur ) is a former Swiss ice hockey player .

Career

The trained plasterer Pietro Cunti, who grew up in Arosa , went through all the junior levels at EHC Arosa . His career as a junior hung by a thin thread when he was dismissed without notice after a loud argument with the elite junior coach; It was thanks to an intervention by club president Peter Bossert that Cunti did not end his career. For the 1979/80 season he was called up as a striker in the first team and won his first championship title with the club . He was able to repeat this success in 1982. He also finished second with the EHC Arosa in 1981 and 1984, and third in the Swiss championship in 1985.

While the young man Cunti was only used as a joker at the beginning, the winter of 1982/83 saw his first full championship season. As a result, he demonstrated his above-average scoring qualities - mainly in the position of a center, sometimes as a wing - and was able to record 31 goals and 21 assists in the 1985/86 season. In addition to his good game overview, he was best known for his mostly covert wrist shot.

After EHC Arosa's voluntary relegation to the first division in 1986 , Cunti initially moved to EHC Chur for a year , mainly in order to be able to continue his professional education. In 1987 he was signed by SC Bern , with which he was able to win the Swiss championship again in 1989 and 1991.

In the national team , Pietro Cunti played various international matches. In December 1983 he was able to score four goals and one assist in a game against Poland. He was also one of the team supports at the 1987 World Championships (four scorer points) and at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary , where he posted a goal and an assist for his team.

Cunti retired from active sport in 1991 after his fourth championship title at the age of only 28 in order to be able to devote himself to his parents' plastering business. Inquiries from the then coach of SC Bern, Bill Gilligan , could no longer persuade him to make a comeback.

Pietro Cunti is an uncle of the ice hockey player Luca Cunti .

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  • Elmar Brunner: 70 years of EHC Arosa - A village makes Swiss sports history , self-published by F&L Planungen AG / Store Line AG, Chur 1994, p. 165.

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personal data
SURNAME Cunti, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur