Vladimír Caldr

Vladimír Caldr
Date of birth	November 26, 1958
place of birth	Písek , Czechoslovakia
size	177 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1977-1986	TJ Motor České Budějovice
1986-1987	ASD Dukla Jihlava
1987-1989	TJ Motor České Budějovice
1989-1991	Amstel Tijgers Amsterdam
1992-1993	HC Stadium Hradec Králové ERC Ingolstadt
1993-1994	HC Tábor HC České Budějovice

Vladimír Caldr (born November 26, 1958 in Písek , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and current coach .

Career

Vladimír Caldr began his career as a hockey player at TJ Motor České Budějovice , for whose senior team he was active from 1975 to 1986 in the first division , the highest Czechoslovak division. He then played for a year for league rivals ASD Dukla Jihlava , before playing again for TJ Motor České Budějovice from 1987 to 1989. From 1989 to 1991 the defender was under contract with the Amstel Tijgers Amsterdam in the Dutch Eredivisie . In the 1992/93 season he first ran for HC Stadion Hradec Králové in the 1st ČNHL , the second highest Czechoslovak league, before he was on the ice in Germany for ERC Ingolstadt from the fourth-class ice hockey regional league .

In the 1993/94 season Caldr worked both as a player and as an assistant coach for his home club HC České Budějovice in the Czech Extraliga , which was newly founded after the division of Czechoslovakia . He also came to several missions for HC Tábor in the second Czech division . For the 1994/95 season , the 1984 Olympic participant switched completely to the support staff of České Budějovice before he was responsible for the team as head coach from 1995 to 1998. For the 1999/2000 season he took over the position of head coach with Jiří Kalous at the Extraliga participant HC Slavia Prague . When the club was only in eleventh place in the table after ten match days, both were dismissed.

International

For Czechoslovakia , Caldr took part in the junior division at the U20 World Junior Championships in 1977 and 1978 . At senior level he was in the squad of his country at the World Championships in 1983 and 1986 and at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and in 1984 at the Canada Cup . At the 1983 World Cup and the 1984 Winter Olympics, he and his team won the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

• 1977 bronze medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1983 silver medal at the world championship
• 1984 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Web links

• Vladimír Caldr at hockeydb.com (English)
• Vladimír Caldr at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Vladimír Caldr at eurohockey.com
• Vladimír Caldr in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Vladimír Caldr at rodi-db.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hc-slavia.cz, 1999-00: Šestá extraligová sezóna