Vladimír Vůjtek senior

Vladimír Vůjtek
Date of birth	May 17, 1947
place of birth	Klimkovice , Czechoslovakia
position	center
Career stations
1968-1979	TJ Vítkovice
1979-1981	Dukla Trenčín

Vladimír Vůjtek senior (born May 17, 1947 in Klimkovice , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and today's coach . He has been the coach of the Czech national team since 2015 . His son Vladimír Vůjtek junior was also a hockey player.

Career

Vladimír Vůjtek senior began his career as a hockey player at TJ Vítkovice , for whose professional team he was active from 1968 to 1979 in the first division , the highest Czechoslovak division. His team reached third place in the championship in 1979 . He then played for two years for the Slovak army sports club Dukla Trenčín .

Following his active career, Vůjtek started a career as a coach. First he worked from 1982 to 1985 as head coach for the second division SK Karviná . Then he was with the exception of the 1987/88 season, in which he was again active for the second division SK Karviná as head coach, until 1994 continuously employed as a coach at his ex-club HC Vítkovice, which he in the 1st division and then in the 1993/94 season in the Extraliga , which was newly founded due to the division of Czechoslovakia . From 1994 to 1996 he was head coach at the Extraliga participant AC ZPS Zlín , with whom he was runner- up in the 1994/95 season. From 1993 to 1995, the Czech was also active for the Czech U20 national youth team . With this he won the bronze medal at the U20 Junior World Championship in 1993 as an assistant coach, and in the following two years he was the head coach of the junior national team.

From 1996 to 2000 Vůjtek trained again with HC Vítkovice, with whom he was runner- up in the 1996/97 season. He then spent a season as a coach at HC Oceláři Třinec , before he worked for Lokomotive Yaroslavl in the Russian Super League for two years . He was the first Czech head coach in Russian professional ice hockey. With this he won the national championship in the 2001/02 and 2002/03 seasons . Following these successes he received a contract with Lokomotives league rivals Ak Bars Kazan for the 2003/04 season . From 2004 to 2007 he was again in charge of HC Vítkovice in the Extraliga, then he worked for HK Dynamo Moscow in the Continental Hockey League in the 2008/09 season . In 2008 he won the Spengler Cup with Dynamo Moscow .

From November 2010 to April 2011 Vůjtek was the head coach of his former club Lokomotive Yaroslavl in the KHL. There he replaced the Finn Kai Suikkanen .

From August 2011 to spring 2015, Vůjtek was the coach of the Slovak national team . He then took over the senior national team in his home country .

Achievements and Awards

1995 Czech runner-up with the AC ZPS Zlín 1997 Czech runner-up with HC Vítkovice 2002 Russian champion with Yaroslavl locomotive

2003 Russian champion with Yaroslavl locomotive 2008 Spengler Cup win with HK Dynamo Moscow

International

• 1993 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2012 silver medal at the world championship

Web links

• Vladimír Vůjtek senior at eliteprospects.com (English)