Haralds Vasiļjevs

Harald Vasiļjevs ( born February 11, 1952 in Riga ) is a former Latvian ice hockey player and current coach. During his playing days he was active among others Dinamo Riga in the USSR Championship. He is currently responsible for the Under-17 and Under-15 team in the Graz 99ers in the Hockey Academy.

Career

As a player

Vasiļjevs was 1968-1983 at Dinamo Riga under contract. During this time he played with the Latvian club for ten years in the then highest Soviet Hockey League, the Wysschaja league. In the seasons 1990/91 and 1991 /92 offensive players also completed 57 games for the ERC Westfalen Dortmund, scoring 58 goals and 140 assists. He also conceded 22 penalty minutes. In Dortmund, he was active as a player-coach. From 1992 he finally stood only as a coach at the gang.

As a coach

The Lette began his coaching career with an internship at Dinamo Riga, the club for which he played in his active time 15 years. Followed in 1985 by another internship at HK CSKA Moscow before he be coaching diploma in Moscow graduated with a " trainer of the highest qualification for Hockey " in the same year.

Shortly thereafter, it undertook the former management of Dinamo Riga in the Framteam RASMS Riga ( Riga also RSchWSM ) Vasiļjevs stood at the band until 1990. In these five years he was with the team in the then second highest Russian league, the league Perwaja active. In 1990 he moved to Germany and was therefore the ERC Westfalen Dortmund busy, he led the division to the 1st League North. His son, the Latvian national team Herberts Vasiļjevs time was also employed at the Dortmunder Hockey Club and played for years in the various youth teams.

In the summer of 1994 Vasiļjevs accepted an offer by the EV Krefeld, where he was henceforth responsible for the amateur team in the 2nd League North. Until 1998 he held this job and also oversaw the junior and cadet team. For the season 1998/99 he was appointed Doug Mason, the then coach of the first team of KEV in the German Ice Hockey League, the assistant coach of the Krefeld Penguins. Two years later he made ​​his coach A license pass. After Mason was released at the end of the 2000/01 season, he led the remaining seven games of the season. During the 2003 /04 Vasiļjevs again took over the post of coach of the Penguins. He managed the team on an interim basis a total of two months and took with her as the reigning German champions at the 2003 Spengler Cup in Davos.

Vasiļjevs a time it was also coach of the Latvian national team. He coached the team Latvia zwischen 1999 and 2001. Doing so, he reached the World Championship 2000 in Russia the eighth place and the same competition in 2001 in Germany 13th place.