Vladimír Martinec

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Vladimír Martinec (born December 22, 1949 in Lomnice nad Popelkou , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey coach and former ice hockey player in the 1970s. He is one of the most successful European ice hockey players and scored a total of 343 goals in the 1st division , 126 in the 1st Bundesliga and 155 international goals. Martinec won the most important award in Czechoslovak ice hockey, the Zlatá hokejka ( Golden Hunter ), four times in his career. His son Tomáš was also an ice hockey player and also played for the German national team .

Career as a player

Martinec began his career in 1967 with Tesla Pardubice in the Czechoslovak League . For many years he played for this club, only in the 1978/79 season he went on the ice in 21 games for Dukla Jihlava . Until 1981 he played for Pardubice and scored a total of 343 goals in 539 games in the Extraliga before moving to the Federal Republic of Germany and playing for ESV Kaufbeuren . In addition to Martinec, Florian Strida , who played as a defender in Kaufbeuren in the late 1960s, was signed by Tesla Pardubice as coach and Bohuslav Šťastný . The trio stayed in Kaufbeuren until the end of the 1984/85 season . Then Martinec and Stastny ended their active careers and Florian Strida returned to Pardubice.

International

Vladimír Martinec was an integral part of the Czechoslovak national team in the 1970s. He took part in all world championships between 1970 and 1979 and was back in the team in 1981. He won three gold medals at world championships ( 1972 , 1976 and 1977 ) and was also called up to the All-Star team three times ( 1974 , 1976 and 1977). Other highlights of his career were the participation in the 1972 Winter Olympics , in 1976 and 1980 and at the 1976 Canada Cup . In 289 games for the national team, he scored 155 goals.

Career as a coach

After retiring as a player, Vladimír Martinec became a junior coach at Tesla Pardubice in 1985. When the first team was relegated to the first division of Czechoslovakia in 1988, Vladimír Martinec was promoted to head coach. In 1990 he returned to Germany and became Richard Pergl's assistant trainer at ESV Kaufbeuren. After the rise of the Kaufbeurer at the end of the 1990/91 season in the Bundesliga , Martinec was promoted to head coach in order to achieve relegation in the top division.

After two years at ESVK, he had to leave after the twelfth matchday of the 1992/93 season. Then he was committed to SC Memmingen , which he looked after from November 1992 to November 1993 (shortly before bankruptcy in December 1993) ( Jiří Kochta was his successor in the 1993/94 season ).

From 1998 he was assistant coach to the Czech national team in all major championships and won Olympic gold in 1998 and the world championship in 1999 , 2000 and 2001 . At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he was also in charge of the Czech selection as an assistant coach. The junior national team of the Czech Republic was coached by Vladimír Martinec at the U20 World Cup in 1998 .

He received the biggest award of his career in 2001 when he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame . In the 2004/05 season he took over the coaching position at HC Moeller Pardubice and led the club to the Czech championship title . Today Vladimír Martinec runs an ice hockey school together with Vladimír Šťastný .

Achievements and Awards

  • at ice hockey world championships :
    • Gold medal (1972, 1976, 1977)
    • Silver medal (1971, 1974, 1978, 1979)
    • Bronze medal (1970, 1973, 1975, 1981).
    • Voted best striker of the 1976 World Cup
    • Top scorer of the 1976 World Cup
    • All-Star-Team of the 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 World Cup
  • as a trainer :
    • World Champion (1999, 2000, 2001)
    • Olympic champion 1998
    • Won the Czech championship in 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ surfingpenguins.de, Weltmeister-Museum ( Memento from April 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c hockeyweb.de, ESV Kaufbeuren - History
  3. ↑ hockey.muc4u.net, 1st Bundesliga 1984/85
  4. ↑ "Olejnik: We trainers are only fair game!", Sport-Bild from January 27, 1993, p. 40f
  5. ↑ ECDC Memmingen Indians: The SC Memmingen from 1981 to 198. In: memmingen-indians.de. January 25, 2018, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ hokej.sfrp.cz, World Juniors 1998
  7. ↑ chidlovski.com, Czechoslovakia 1972: Players' Info
  8. ↑ www.martinec-hockey.cz, Hokejová škola Vladimíra Martinec (cz)
personal data
SURNAME Martinec, Vladimír
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey coach and former player
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lomnice nad Popelkou , Czechoslovakia