Mitja Å ivic
Mitja Šivic ( born October 1, 1979 in Brezje, SR Slovenia) is a Slovenian ice hockey player who is since 2012 in the Diables Rouges de Briançon in the French Ligue Magnus under contract.
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Career
Mitja Šivic began his career as a hockey player with HDD Olimpija Ljubljana, for which he made his debut in the Slovenian Hockey League announced in the 1997/98 season and with whom he was in his first season in professional hockey right away Slovenian champion. After a year at HK Sportina Bled from the Alpine League of attackers returned to Olimpija Ljubljana, with whom he won again each time the Slovenian league title in three years. In the season 2002/ 03 was initially for THK Tver Šivic from the second Russian league, the Wysschaja league on the ice, before he returned for the playoffs to Ljubljana, with whom he won the league title in a row for the fourth time.
After another championship Šivic played in the 2004/05 season again in the Wysschaja league in which he was active for Crystal Saratov. In addition, he played in four games this season for the HK Keramin Minsk of the Belarusian Extraliga and finally 13 games for Olimpija Ljubljana, for whom he played for the fourth time in his career. In Ljubljana the center stayed two years before after the league title in 2007 - was signed by the Diables Rouges de Briançon in the French Ligue Magnus - his seventh of Ljubljana total. With Briançon Šivic was runner-up and reached the final of the Coupe de la Ligue.
In the summer of 2008, longstanding Slovenian national team was finally obliged by the Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble, with whom he won the Trophée des Champions in 2009 and 2011 as well as the Coupe de la Ligue in 2008 and 2009. In addition, he was with Grenoble in the 2008 /09 season French champion and won this season with his team to the national cup competition, the Coupe de France. After four years in Grenoble, he returned in the summer of 2012 on the Diables Rouges de Briançon back.
Internationally
For Slovenia Šivic took at junior level at the U18 Junior C Championship in 1996, the U18 Junior B Championship in 1997 and the U20 Junior World Championship 1999 - C part. In the senior level, he stood in his country's squad at the B World Championships in 2000, 2009 and 2010 and at the A World Championships in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2011.
Awards and achievements
- 2008 French vice champion with Briançon
- 2008 Trophée des Champions with Grenoble
- 2009 French Champion with Grenoble
- 2009 Coupe de la Ligue with Grenoble
- 2009 Coupe de France Grenoble
- 2009 Trophée des Champions with Grenoble
- 2011 Coupe de la Ligue with Grenoble
Internationally
- 2009 Top scorer in the World Championship Division I, Group A
- 2010 promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I
- 2010 best plus / minus balance of the world championship of Division I, Group B
Statistics
(End of season 2010/11)