Vladimír Nadrchal

Vladimír Nadrchal
Date of birth	March 4, 1938
place of birth	Pardubice , Czechoslovakia
size	172 cm
Weight	72 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
1950-1957	Dynamo Pardubice
1957-1974	Rudá Hvězda Brno
1974-1976	TJ Prostějov

Vladimír Nadrchal (born March 4, 1938 in Pardubice , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czechoslovak ice hockey goalkeeper who played for ŽKL Brno in the top division of the ČSSR for over two decades and took part in eight world championships and three Olympic Winter Games with the Czechoslovak national team . He has been working as a coach since the end of his playing career .

Career as a player

Nadrchal began his career in 1950 at Dynamo Pardubice and went through the youth teams there. In 1955, at the age of 17, he made his debut in the top division of the ČSSR, before moving to Rudá Hvězda Brno two years later . For this club, which later renamed itself ŽKL or Zetor Brno, Nadrchal played until 1974 and became one of the dominant goalkeepers in Czechoslovakia. In his first season for Brno, he won the Czechoslovak championship and repeated this success seven times between 1960 and 1966. In the early 1960s, he revolutionized Czechoslovak ice hockey when he brought a goalkeeper mask from Canada in 1960 and was the first to wear it at league games in Czechoslovakia. In total, he played over 500 games in 19 seasons in the first Czechoslovak league before moving to the second-rate club TJ Prostějov in 1974 and ending his career there in 1976.

International

In addition to his successes at club level, Vladimír Nadrchal was the goalkeeper of the Czechoslovak national team in the 1960s. He took part in eight world championships between 1958 and 1968, in which he won three medals. In his first World Cup in 1958 , he was voted the tournament's best goalkeeper. He also took part in the Winter Olympics in 1960 , 1964 and 1968 and won two medals.

Career as a coach

After he switched to TJ Prostějov, he started working as an assistant coach at ŽKL Brno. In the 1990s he was also employed as a goalkeeping coach and looked after Karel Lang , František Jelínek , Pavel Nešťák and Adam Svoboda , among others .

Achievements and Awards

• Czechoslovak championship title in 1958 and 1960–66
• At Olympic Winter Games:
  • 1960 4th place
  • 1964 bronze medal won
  • 1968 won the silver medal
• At world championships:
  • 1961, 1965 won the silver medal
  • 1959 bronze medal won
• At European Championships :
  • 1961 European Championship
  • 1958, 1964, 1967 bronze medal won
  • 1959, 1965, 1968 winning the silver medal
• Admission to the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame

Web links

• Vladimír Nadrchal at eurohockey.com
• Vladimír Nadrchal in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ azhockey.com, Nadrchal, Vladimir
2. ↑ hckometa.wz.cz, VLADIMÍR NADRCHAL ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ hckometa.wz.cz, VLADIMÍR NADRCHAL - trenér brankářů ( Memento of the original dated May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.