Stéphane Botteri

Stéphane Botteri
Date of birth	January 27, 1962
place of birth	Annecy , France
size	176 cm
Weight	73 kg
position	defender
Career stations
1985-1986	Sporting Hockey Club Saint Gervais
1986-1987	Mont-Blanc HC
1988-1990	Français Volants de Paris
1990-1992	Rouen Hockey Elite 76
1992-1994	HC Morzine-Avoriaz
1994-2001	CS Megève

Stéphane Botteri (born January 27, 1962 in Annecy ) is a former French ice hockey player and coach , who took part in the Winter Olympics three times with the French national ice hockey team from 1985 to 2001 .

Career

Stéphane Botteri began his career as an ice hockey player at the Sporting Hockey Club Saint Gervais , with whom he was French champion for the first time in the 1985/86 season . In the same year he received the Albert Hassler trophy as the most valuable player in the Ligue Magnus . In the following season the defender was able to win the national championship again with the Mont-Blanc HC . The team from Mont-Blanc was the successor club to Saint Gervais and emerged from the merger of two clubs. From 1988 to 1990 the national player was under contract with the Français Volants de Paris , with whom he was also champions in the 1988/89 season. This was followed by two seasons with Rouen Hockey Elite 76 , with whom he won his fourth and last French championship in 1992. After this success, the three-time Olympian left the team and signed with HC Morzine-Avoriaz in the second-rate division 1 . From 1994 until his retirement in 2001 at the age of 39, Botteri was on the ice for Morzine's league rivals CS Megève . With Megève he rose in the 1995/96 season in the Ligue Magnus, but had to accept the immediate relegation with his team.

From 2003 to 2005 Botteri was the head coach of the U18 juniors of his last club, CS Megève, in the top French junior division of the corresponding year.

International

For France Botteri took part in the B world championships in 1987 and 1990 and the A world championships in 1992 and 1993 . He was also in his country's squad at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , 1992 in Albertville and 1994 in Lillehammer .

Achievements and Awards

1986 French champion with the Sporting Hockey Club Saint Gervais 1986 Albert Hassler Trophy 1987 French champion with the Mont-Blanc HC 1987 Ligue Magnus All-Star Game

1989 French champion with the Français Volants de Paris 1992 French champion with Rouen Hockey Elite 76 1996 Promotion to the Ligue Magnus with CS Megève

Web links

• Stéphane Botteri at hockeydb.com (English)
• Stéphane Botteri at eurohockey.com
• Stéphane Botteri at eliteprospects.com (English)