Robert Simon (ice hockey player)

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Flag of the Czech Republic and Germany.svg  Robert Simon Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 20, 1964
place of birth Czechoslovakia
size 184 cm
Weight 78 kg
position striker
Career stations
1986-1988 ECD Iserlohn
1988 EHC Essen-West
1988-1990 EHC Freiburg
1990-1991 ECD Sauerland
1991-1992 EHC Essen-West
1992-1995 Schalke sharks
1995 Herner EV
1996 EC Devils Königsborn
1997 Iserlohner EC
1997 Herne Miners
1998 Limburg EG
1998 Eintracht Braunschweig
1998-2000 Herford EC
2000-2003 ESC Hamm
2006-2007 Iserlohner EC 1b
2008-2009 EHC Krefeld Niederrhein
2009-2011 EHC Netphen '08

Robert Simon (born October 20, 1964 in Czechoslovakia ) is a former German ice hockey player .

Career

Striker Robert Simon began his career in Vítkovice , a district of Ostrava , where he was on the way to the top division. However, Simon wanted to leave the communist country to make a career in Germany . Over Christmas 1985, he and his brother traveled to Italy to visit their sister. On the way back, Robert Simon settled near Salzburg and fled to Iserlohn . Thomas Dolak senior , also from the Czech Republic, brought Robert Simon to the Bundesliga club ECD Iserlohn . During the 1987/88 season , the Iserlohners stopped playing after bankruptcy and Simon moved to the second division EHC Essen-West .

For the 1988/89 season Robert Simon moved to the newly promoted Bundesliga EHC Freiburg before returning to the ECD Sauerland in 1990 . With the successor club of the ECD Iserlohn, Simon was champion of the 2nd Bundesliga North in 1991 , but missed the possible promotion to the Bundesliga in the final round. In the 1991/92 season Robert Simon played again for the EHC Essen-West in the 2nd Bundesliga North, before he joined the Schalker Haien in the third-class Oberliga Nord in 1992 . In the 1993/94 season Robert Simon reach 77 goals this season. In the mid-1990s Simon became a wanderer and played for the Herner EV , the EC Devils Königsborn , the Iserlohner EC , the Herne Miners , the Limburger EG and Eintracht Braunschweig .

During the 1998/99 season Robert Simon moved to the Herford EC . With the Ostwestfalen he was first champion of the fourth-class Regionalliga NRW in the 1999/2000 season and later made it to the Oberliga Nord. Then Simon joined the regional league team ESC Hamm , for whom he played until 2003. Later Robert Simon was still active for the 1b team of the Iserlohner EC, for the EHC Krefeld Niederrhein and the EHC Netphen '08 before he ended his active career in 2011. Later he worked as a trainer at the Iserlohner EC and the Königsborner JEC.

Robert Simon is a self-employed carpenter . He is married and has a son. Robert Simon suffered from alcoholism for many years . By his own account he had some ten half liters of drinking.

successes

  • Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga North: 1991
  • Champion of the Regionalliga NRW: 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Michael Topp: Struggle for freedom and against alcohol. Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger und Zeitung , accessed on November 26, 2019 .