Florian Iberer
Florian Iberians ( born December 7, 1982 in Graz) is an Austrian ice hockey player who is under contract with the EC KAC in the Erste Bank Hockey League since December 2012. His brothers Matthias and Martin are also hockey players. His sister Anna 's Youth Olympic Silbermedaillistin.
Career
Florian Iberians began his career at the age of six years with the EC Graz, before he played from 1999 to the newly founded EC Graz 99ers. In 2000, he won with the 99ers the championship of the National Ice Hockey League and rose to the Austrian Hockey League. Within the next five years he established himself in the men's team the 99ers, but came during the 2001/ 02 season, even at the U20 juniors of the club used. In the Austrian Hockey League, he fell to less by points scorer than by solid defensive work. This enabled him to achieve positive from 2003 plus / minus statistics.
In 2005 he decided a change in the U.S. and initially received a contract with the Bakersfield Condors of the ECHL de. The Condors but Iberians was after the training camp only the seventh defender so that he advised the manager of Bakersfield to change clubs. A few days later Iberians was then obliged by the Quad City Mallards of the UHL. As the coach of the Mallards but an offensive defender sought, the Mallards Iberians sent to the Elmira Jackals, where this has quickly established. In 61 games this season for the Jackals, he scored 30 points scorer. During the following summer break Iberians joined in the ECHL Alaska Aces to, but for which he only completed 49 games and otherwise was not used as a supernumerary defender. He therefore left the Aces in the summer of 2007 and has been committed by the Kalamazoo Wings, who participated in the IHL at the time. In the Wings he immediately was one of the key players and scored in the first 33 games of the season 30 points scorer, so he was in the middle of the season the top scoring defense in the league. This prompted several clubs from Austria to send contract offers to the Iberians. This decided in mid-January 2008 for a contract until the end of the 2008/09 season when EHC Linz, where his brother Matthias played. With the EHC Iberians reached the profit of the basic passage of the 2007/08 season and came to the playoff semi-finals. In the summer of 2009, his contract ran out in Linz and left the EHC. Then he signed a contract for two years at his hometown club, the EC Graz 99ers. The 99ers won the regular season of the season 2009/10. Previously, Iberians had sustained a myocardial inflammation in January 2010, which forced him to a premature end of the season. This he completed in 2009/ 10, only 27 appearances for the Graz 99ers.
By 2011, graduated Iberians over 360 league games in the EBEL for the Graz 99ers and the EHC Linz. In summer 2011 he took after he got a new contract more in Graz, at training camp Dresdner Eislöwen part and received a contract before the season start. As a result, he established himself within the team offensively - strong defender, the defender was all after the main round of the Bundesliga 2 team internally third best scorer and the league 's top scorer. Logically Iberians in March 2012 by a panel consisting of experts from the magazine Hockey News and the head coaches of the 2nd Bundesliga clubs, honored as the best defender of the 2nd Bundesliga.
In spring 2012, Iberians received a contract with IF Troja Ljungby - from the HockeyAllsvenskan. When he could not prevail there, he moved in December of the same year for the EC KAC.
Internationally
From 1998 welcomed Florian Iberians his country in international tournaments, first in the U18 and later in the U20 national team. In 1999 he took part with the U18 selection of the U18 Junior B World Cup in France and won the silver medal. In 2002 he was part of the squad of U20 National team that finished second in the U20 Junior World Championship Division I.
He was appointed the first time in the Men's National Team in 2005 and completed his first international match during the Slovakia Cup and during the World Cup preparation. Overall, he brought it to 2008 to 16 matches for the Austrian A-National Team. In February 2008, Iberians was appointed to the squad for the Euro Ice Hockey Challenge.
In July 2010, Florian Iberians took along with his brother Martin attended the Inline Hockey World Championship in the Team Austria won the Division I.
Awards and achievements
- 2013 Austrian Champion with the EC KAC