Václav Sýkora
 Václav Sýkora 
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| Date of birth | October 24, 1952 |
| place of birth | Kladno , Czechoslovakia |
| position | striker |
| Career stations | |
| 1969-1986 | Poldi Kladno |
| 1970s | Dukla Trenčín |
| 1986-1988 | SG Cortina |
Václav Sýkora (born October 24, 1952 in Kladno , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and current coach , who was most recently an assistant coach at HK Sotschi from the Continental Hockey League . As a player, he completed over 16 seasons for his home club Poldi Kladno .
Career as a player
Václav Sýkora was born as the son of Vlastimil Sýkora , who himself was a versatile athlete and who led the TJ SONP Kladno to the championship title as a coach in the 1958/59 season . Through him his son Václav got into ice hockey at the age of 10. At the age of 17 he was accepted into the men's team of SONP Kladno. In addition, Václav took part in the U19 Junior European Championship in 1971 , in which he scored three goals in five games.
Václav Sýkora spent most of his long career in Kladno, with the exception of military service with Dukla Trenčín . For the men's team of Poldi Kladno, he completed a total of 845 games in 16 seasons, in which he scored 412 goals. In the top division he scored 127 goals in 446 games. He was Czechoslovak champion five times between 1975 and 1978 and 1980 . In the early 1980s he was also the team captain. In 1986 he moved to Cortina d'Ampezzo and ended his playing career there after two years with SG Cortina .
Parallel to his sports career, he completed a degree at the Charles University in Prague , where he became a lecturer at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport after retiring .
Career as a coach
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| Coaching stations | |
| 1989-1991 | Poldi Kladno |
| 1991-1992 | SaiPa Lappeenranta |
| 1992-1996 | Lukko Rauma |
| 1996-1998 | HC Sparta Prague ( Ass. ) |
| 1998-2001 | HC Litvínov |
| 2001-2002 | HC Sparta Prague |
| 2003-2004 | Ilves Tampere |
| 2005-2007 | HC Litvínov |
| 2007-2008 | HC Znojemští Orli |
| 2008-2010 | HC Pardubice |
| 2010-2011 | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| 2011–2012 | Piráti Chomutov |
| 2012 | HC Sparta Prague |
| 2012-2014 | HC Lev Prague ( Ass. ) |
| 2015 | Severstal Cherepovets |
| 2016-2018 | Mountfield HK |
| 2018-2019 | HK Sochi ( Ass. ) |
In 1989 Václav Sýkora became Bohumil Prošek's assistant coach at Poldi Kladno after Eduard Novák and Bedřich Brunclíkov were fired. At the end of the 1989/90 season he received a contract as head coach and was supported by František Kaberle senior as an assistant. With Kladno he reached eleventh place in the championship in 1989, fourth in 1990 and 12th a year later.
In 1991 he received an offer from Finland to train SaiPa Lappeenranta . Due to financial problems, this rose at the end of the 1991/92 season in the second division and Sýkora moved to Lukko Rauma , with whom he reached third place in the Finnish championship in the 1993/94 season. In January 1996 he was released from Lukko and returned to the Czech Republic. There he was before the 1996/97 season the assistant coach of Slavomír Lener at HC Sparta Prague and reached the playoff semi-finals with the team, in which it was defeated by HC Vítkovice . In the series for third place, Sparta defeated HC Pardubice 6: 5 and 4: 1. In the following season Sparta again reached the semi-finals of the play-offs.
In the autumn of 1998 Václav Sýkora was committed before the 15th matchday of Chemopetrol Litvínov , where he held the post of head coach until 2001. Under his leadership, the team achieved the best placement in the 1999/2000 season with fourth place. In 2001 he returned to Sparta Prague and achieved the first major success of his coaching career with the team - winning the Czech championship . However, after this success he did not receive a new contract from Sparta, so that he was initially unemployed.
In 2003 Sýkora went back to Finland, where he was the head coach of Ilves Tampere . In October 2004 he left Tampere for family reasons and returned to the Czech Republic. In the summer of 2005 he was again obliged by HC Litvínov, where he was under contract until the 41st matchday of the 2006/07 season and was assisted by Petr Fiala .
In the 2007/08 season he led the HC Znojemští Orli as head coach, where he was assisted by Pavel Hynek . Before the following season he received a contract with HC Pardubice , with which he managed to qualify for the play-offs. In the 2009/10 season he won his second championship title in the Czech Republic with Pardubice. After this success he was hired by the SKA Saint Petersburg from the KHL as the assistant coach of Ivo Zanatta , with whom he had already worked in Finland. Zanatta was sacked in October 2010 and Sýkora became temporarily head coach. Originally a new head coach should be presented in November 2010, but when the SKA climbed from seventh to third place in the KHL under Sýkora's leadership, he received a contract until the end of the season. In December of the same year he won the Spengler Cup with the SKA .
In April 2011 he was introduced as the new coach of KLH Chomutov from the 1st division after he had been replaced by Miloš Říha at SKA , and was in charge of the club until March 2012.
In early October Sýkora was introduced as the new head coach of HC Sparta Prague after Richard Žemlička had been sacked due to a series of defeats. About a month later, Sýkora swapped positions with Josef Jandač , who had previously looked after HC Lev Prague as a full-time trainer.
In October 2013 Kari Jalonen became the new head coach of HC Lev Prague after Václav Sýkora asked for family reasons to be released from his duties. Sýkora stayed with the club and was Jalonen's assistant coach until the end of the 2013/14 season.
From November 2014 Sýkora was employed as a sports advisor at Severstal Tscherepowez before he was promoted to head coach in May 2015. After poor results at the beginning of the season, he was replaced by his assistant coach Dmitri Yushkevich in October of the same year .
Between 2016 and 2018 Václav Sýkora was the head coach at Mountfield HK . For the 2018/19 season he moved to HK Sotschi in the KHL, where he took over the position of assistant coach to Josef Jandač.
Achievements and Awards
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Web links
- Václav Sýkora at hockeydb.com (English)
- Václav Sýkora at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c zivotopis.osobnosti.cz, Václav Sýkora
- ↑ Trenér Václav Sýkora skončil v Ilvesu Tampere, k odchodu ho přiměly rodinné důvody ( Memento of August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on hokej.cz.
- ↑ Trenérem Pardubic se stal Václav Sýkora ( Memento of April 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on hokej. idnes.cz.
- ↑ Trainer Václav Sýkora leaves Master Pardubice ( memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on radio.cz.
- ^ Ex-Lugano coach in Russia sacked. on tagesanzeiger.ch.
- ↑ LEV Praha appoints Sykora as new coach. on eurohockey.com.
- ↑ coach castling in Prague: Sykora to Lev and Jandač back to Sparta. In: Ice Hockey News .
- ↑ New Head Coach at Lev Prague Kari Jalonen replaces Vaclav Sykora, who is now assistant coach. ( Memento from October 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Ice Hockey News. October 11, 2013.
- ↑ Vaclav Sykora jde do KHL, bude trénovat Čerepovec. ceskatelevize.cz , October 13, 2015, accessed October 13, 2015 (Czech).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sýkora, Václav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sykora, Vaclav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech ice hockey player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kladno , Czechoslovakia |