Richard Farda

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Richard Farda
Date of birth November 8, 1945
place of birth Brno , Czechoslovakia
size 176 cm
Weight 75 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 1963 SK Zbrojovka Zidenice
1963-1965 HC Dukla Jihlava
1965-1974 HC Kometa Brno
1974-1976 Toronto Toros
1976-1977 Birmingham Bulls
1977-1988 Genève-Servette HC
1978-1980 Zurich SC
1980-1981 Grasshopper Club Zurich
1981-1982 EHC Illnau-Effretikon

Richard Farda (born November 8, 1945 in Brno , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach . He played for many years in the top division of Czechoslovakia for Spartak ZJŠ Brno and in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Toronto Toros and Birmingham Bulls .

Career as a player

Richard Farda started his career in his hometown at Spartak ZJŠ Brno. In 1962 he made his debut in the 1st division of the ČSSR . Between 1963 and 1965 he played during his army service for Dukla Jihlava , one of the army clubs in Czechoslovakia. After completing his military service, he returned to Brno and won the Czechoslovak Championship in 1966 . He played until 1974 for his hometown club before 1974 while vacationing with Václav Nedomanský in Switzerland fled. But since the two had to fear an 18-month ban of the IIHF in other European countries , they moved to North America and played for the Toronto Toros in the WHA. In 1976, the Toros moved to Birmingham and were renamed Birmingham Bulls , for which Farda completed another season. He scored 34 goals in 178 WHA games, while he scored 177 goals in 408 league games in the ČSSR.

After three years in the WHA, he moved back to Europe and played for Genève-Servette HC in the 1977/78 season . This was followed by two more seasons at Zürcher SC and a few years in the amateur leagues in Switzerland, where he worked as a player-coach.

International

For many years Farda also played for Czechoslovakia in international championships and won six medals at ice hockey world championships and one medal at Winter Olympics. For the 1969 World Cup , he received his first appointment in the selection of the CSSR and won the bronze medal. In the following years he regularly took part in the world championships. His greatest successes were winning the bronze medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics and the world championship title in the same year. In 149 international matches, he scored a total of 49 goals in the national jersey.

Career as a coach

After working as a player-coach in Switzerland, he took over as a full-time coach at ESV Kaufbeuren in the 1989/90 season . He then moved to HC Olomouc , which he also looked after as head coach.

Between 1993 and 1999 Farda worked as the head coach of HC Slavia Prague and with this club made promotion to the extra league in 1994 .

Until November 2001 he then coached the Swiss third division club EHC Bülach . After a few unsuccessful games in the first division of Switzerland, he then moved to HC Lasselsberger Plzeň , which he was in charge of until the middle of the 2002/03 season . In the following season he took over the coaching position at league competitor HC Energie Karlovy Vary . During the 2006/07 season he worked as head coach for the Italian club WSV Sterzing Broncos .

successes

  • 1966: Championship of Czechoslovakia
  • 1969, 70 and 73: bronze medal at the ice hockey world championship
  • 1971 and 74: Winning the silver medal at the Ice Hockey World Championship
  • 1972: Bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
  • 1972: Winning the world championship
  • 1994: Promotion to the extra league with HC Slavia Prague

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hckometa.wz.cz, Richard Farda  ( 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.hckometa.wz.cz  
  2. ↑ chidlovski.com, ČSSR Biographies 1972
  3. ↑ zscfans.ch, Richard Farda ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wiki.zscfans.ch
  4. ↑ newtonit.cz, interview in MF Dnes on November 9, 2005
  5. ↑ Richard Farda ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at sportovci.cz @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportovci.cz
  6. ↑ hc-slavia.cz, HC Slavia Praha - Zlatá kniha
  7. ↑ zuonline.ch, Richard Farda leaves the EHC Bülach ( Memento of 20 October 2007 at the Internet Archive ), November 7, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Farda, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno , Czechoslovakia