Vladimír Dzurilla

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SlovakiaSlovakia  Vladimír Dzurilla Ice hockey player
IIHF Hall of Fame , 1998
Date of birth August 2, 1942
place of birth Bratislava , First Slovak Republic
date of death July 27, 1995
Place of death Dusseldorf , Germany
size 178 cm
Weight 93 kg
position goalkeeper
Career stations
1959-1973 Slovan CHZJD Bratislava
1973-1975 TJ Škoda Plzeň
1975-1977 Zetor Brno
1977-1988 TJ Škoda Plzeň
1978-1979 Augsburg EV
1979-1982 SC Riessersee

Vladimír Dzurilla (born August 2, 1942 in Bratislava , First Slovak Republic , † July 27, 1995 in Düsseldorf , Germany ) was a Slovak ice hockey goalkeeper and coach .

Career

Vladimír Dzurilla began his career as an ice hockey player at the age of 13 when he did a trial training at CHZJD Bratislava . However, he was considered unsuitable, so he instead trained at Kovosmalt Petržalka .

In the season 1956/57 he then played for Kovosmalt in the second division of Czechoslovakia and showed very good performances there. Then he got the offer to play for CHZJD Bratislava. He accepted this offer and stayed with this club until 1973 before moving to Zetor Brno . Until 1978 he played for Brno .

Dzurilla was of the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association drafted but never played in North America.

Before the 1978/79 season he moved to Germany and played for EV Augsburg in the ice hockey Bundesliga . After just one year in Augsburg he was signed by SC Riessersee and won the German championship with this club two years later. In the following season, Joseph Heiss was the back-up of Dzurilla, who called him a role model and teacher. 1982 ended Dzurilla, who was also called Maco by teammates , his active playing career. With 571 league games in 19 years, Dzurilla holds the record for goalkeepers in the Czechoslovak extra league.

International

Vladimír Dzurilla made his debut in the Czechoslovak national team in 1960 . He took part in ten world championships , where he won two gold, three silver and four bronze medals. He was named the tournament's best goalkeeper at the 1965 World Cup and was elected to the All-Star Team in both 1965 and 1969 . Further highlights of his international career were the appearances at the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 , 1968 and 1972 , in which he won one silver and two bronze medals.

One of his best games in the national jersey was the 1-0 victory of the Czechoslovaks against Canada in the preliminary round of the Canada Cup 1976 , in which Dzurilla blocked 29 shots on his goal and was able to celebrate a shutout . Because of this achievement, the then General Manager of the Montréal Canadiens , Sam Pollock , wanted to sign Dzurilla. But he never got permission to move to North America.

In total, Vladimír Dzurilla completed 139 games in 16 years for his home country and is second in the ranking for goalkeepers behind Jiří Holeček , who made 164 appearances in the national jersey.

Career as a coach

The grave of Vladimír Dzurilla at the Slávičie údolie cemetery in Bratislava

After retiring as a player, Dzurilla worked as a coach in Czechoslovakia and Germany. He worked as head coach in Garmisch-Partenkirchen at SC Riessersee (1987/88), Eintracht Frankfurt 1988/89, EHC Klostersee, Zetor Brno and HC Slovan Bratislava .

In the last year of his life he was the official goalkeeping coach for young talent at the IIHF . He played the last ice hockey game of his career in May 1995 in Stockholm , where a Swedish selection of old men played against the World Oldtimer All-Stars . In this game, Dzurilla was named Player of the Day.

Shortly before his 53rd birthday, Vladimír Dzurilla suffered a heart attack in his apartment in Düsseldorf and died the same day of the consequences of the heart attack . The most important award of his career was only bestowed upon him after his death, when he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1998. Four years later he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation .

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Squad history on www.scriessersee.de
  2. ↑ Pat Houda and Joe Pelletier: International Hockey Legends: Vladimir Dzurilla. In: internationalhockeylegends.blogspot.de. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ hockeydb-ffm.de, Dzurilla, Trainer 1988/89
  4. ↑ TRENÉŘI: Vladimír Dzurilla ( Memento from October 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ IIHF.com , The Members of the International Hall of Fame
  6. ↑ sienslavy.sk, Členovia Siene slávy
personal data
SURNAME Dzurilla, Vladimír
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dzurilla, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1995
Place of death Dusseldorf , Germany