Rudolf Potsch

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Rudolf Potsch
Date of birth June 15, 1937
place of birth Brno , Czechoslovakia
Nickname Ruda, Počák, Klepeto
size 187 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
number #8th
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 1956 SK Královo Pole
1956-1969 RH Brno
1969-1972 Düsseldorfer EG
1972-1974 Ingstav Brno

Rudolf "Rudi" Potsch (born June 15, 1937 in Brno ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and coach who played as a defender for RH Brno and the Czechoslovak national team for many years . He was one of the best defenders in Czechoslovakia. He became particularly well-known for the so-called Potsch-Check , a body check that is carried out with the right shoulder against the opponent's chest.

Career

Rudolf Potsch began his career in the youth teams of SK Královo Pole , with whose junior team he won three championship titles in Czechoslovakia between 1952 and 1955. During the season 1955/56 he made his debut for the men's team of the club before he was drafted into military service in 1956. He did this as a sports soldier in the Army Sports Club RH Brno , for which he was active for the following 13 years and with which he was Czechoslovakian champion nine times between 1957 and 1966. He was also one of the most dangerous defenders in the first division and scored a total of 139 goals in 377 league games. With 134 goals for RH Brno (now Kometa Brno), he is also the most successful goalscorer among defenders in the club's history.

In 1969 he received permission to move to western countries and was obliged by the Düsseldorfer EG . He won the German championship title with DEG in 1972 and returned to his homeland after this success. Between 1972 and 1974 he played again for his first club, which has since been renamed Ingstav Brno , before ending his career in 1974 at the age of 37.

International

Rudolf Potsch was a regular player in the Czechoslovak national team in the 1960s and won numerous medals with them at ice hockey world championships and the Olympic Winter Games . He made his debut for the national team in January 1958 in an international match against the Soviet Union and completed his last international match in January 1967.

He completed a total of over 100 international matches for the ČSSR, in which he scored 19 goals.

Coaching career

In the last two years of his playing career Potsch was the parallel assistant coach of Ingstav Brno , with his former teammate Slavomír Bartoň being the head coach. In 1974 Potsch took over his post and, with Ingstav Brno, made promotion to the first division in 1975 . The club rose from this one year later. Potsch stayed in the same position with Ingstav Brno until 1978, before becoming the head coach of Dukla Trenčín .

In 1982 he returned to Brno and took over the coaching position at TJ Zetor Brno , with whom he mostly finished behind places in the first division in the following years. In the 1987/88 season he was in charge of Partizan Belgrade from the SFR Yugoslavia before he became head coach of TJ DS Olomouc in 1988 . With the team from Olomouc he won twice ( 1989 and 1990 ) the championship title of the second division, the 1. ČNHL, but missed promotion to the first division.

In 1992 he returned to the now renamed HC Královpolská Brno Zetor Brno and finished with this two years in a row third place in the second division. Between 1995 and 1997 he looked after Dukla Trenčín again from the Slovak Extraliga and won the Slovak championship title with this team in 1997 . His last coaching station was the VTJ Haná Kroměříž from the 2nd division , which he led in the 1999/2000 season.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1957, 1958, 1960–1966 Czechoslovakian champion with the RH Brno
  • 1966, 1967, 1968 win the European Cup with RH Brno
  • 1959, 1963 bronze medal at the world championship
  • 1961, 1965, 1966 won the silver medal at the world championship
  • 1964 won the bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
  • 1972 German champion with the Düsseldorfer EG
  • Admission to the Czech ice hockey hall of fame

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c hckometa.wz.cz, Hraci: Rudolf Potsch ( memento of the original from January 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hckometa.wz.cz
  2. ↑ a b c denik.cz, Průkopníka bodyčeků táhlo zpět do Brna srdce
  3. ↑ derwesten.de, Christmas presents
  4. ↑ hokej.hansal.cz, Hráči s největším počtem odehraných zápasů za Československ
  5. ↑ a b c hckometa.wz.cz, Treneri: Rudolf Potsch ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2011 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 / hckometa.wz.cz

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personal data
SURNAME Potsch, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Potsch, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno , Czechoslovakia