Josef Augusta (ice hockey)
Josef Augusta (* November 24, 1946 in Havlíčkův Brod, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey coach and former player. His son Patrick is also a former hockey player and serves since 2008 as manager of HC Dukla Jihlava.
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Career as a player
Josef Augusta began his career in 1956 in his hometown at Jiskra Havlíčkův Brod. At the time, this club played in the second league, the second division of Czechoslovakia. He remained until the end of the season 1963/64, in his hometown before he had to do his military service at the age of 18 years. To this end, he joined the army club Dukla Jihlava, for whom he would play until 1982.
Already in 1967 he won his first league title with Dukla Czechoslovakia. In the following five years was Dukla series masters of CSSR. Two more national titles followed for Augusta in 1974 and 1982. Moreover, he won with Dukla the Spengler Cup in 1965, 1966, 1968, 1978 and 1982. Overall, he played 16 seasons in the top division of Czechoslovakia, in which he scored 168 goals in 552 games.
1982 Augusta was given permission to change the basis of merit in the other Western European countries. He joined the VER Selb and played for them in the 1982/83 season in the 2nd Bundesliga. At the end of the season Selb dismounted in the league and Augusta ended his career.
Internationally
His first nomination for a World Cup was Josef Augusta for the World Championships in 1969, where he won the bronze medal with the national team of Czechoslovakia. For more starts followed 1974, 1975 and 1978, where he won the silver medal each.
In 1976 he was nominated for the Canada Cup and reached the national team the final against Canada. In the final match he scored a goal for interim compensation 3:3 - ultimately lost the Czechoslovaks the game but 5-4 after extra time. In the same year Augusta belonged to the Czechoslovak squad at the Olympic Winter Games and won with his team again the silver medal.
Overall, he scored 24 goals in 100 appearances for Czechoslovakia.
Career as a coach
Since end of his career working as a hockey coach Augusta. First he took care of the youth teams of Dukla Jihlava, before in 1987 he was coach of the men's team. In the season 1990/91 he was assistant coach of Jaroslav Holik, as Dukla won another championship. From 1992 and during the first season of the Extraliga Augusta supervised the AC ZPS Zlín, but was released during the season. Together with his assistant coach Miloš Říha he moved to HC Olomouc, Czech champion with whom he was in 1994. After that, he was obliged by Italian HC Alleghe, before he returned to Jihlava 1995. There he was dismissed on account of sporting failure and supervised in the following three years, the B team in the Czech Republic.
From 1999 Augusta supervised the Czech national team as assistant coach of Ivan Hlinka. At the World Cup 1999, the Czechs won the gold medal. Despite this success, Hlinka came back in February 2000 as manager and was head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. Thereupon Josef Augusta head coach of the national team and won with this, both in 2000, and in 2001 the gold medal at the World Championships.
After the fifth place in the national team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Augusta resigned from his post and was replaced by Slavomír Lener. Between 2002 and 2003 he worked as Managing Director of the HC Havířov. At the beginning of the season 2005 /06 he was head coach of HC Slovan Bratislava, but was released at the end of 2005. He then worked as a television commentator.
Since 2008, Josef Augusta has returned to Jihlava under contract. He was assistant coach Karel Dvořák In the season 2008/ 09 the 1st league. In the 2009/10 season he was head coach of Dukla.
Awards and achievements
- Czechoslovak champion in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1982 Dukla Jihlava
- Czechoslovakian champion Dukla Jihlava 1991 ( as assistant coach )
- Czech champion in 1994 with the HC Olomouc ( as head coach )
Internationally
- Gold Medal - 1999, 2000 and 2001 ( as head coach )
- Silver Medal - 1974, 1975 and 1978 ( as a player )
- Bronze Medal - 1969 ( as a player )
- Silver Medal - 1976 ( as a player )
- 2002 - 5th place ( as head coach )
- Silver Medal 1976