VladimÃr Zábrodský
Vladimír Zábrodský ( born March 7, 1923 in Prague ) is a former Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach who counts with 306 league and 158 international goals of the most successful strikers of the Czechoslovak ice hockey. He also participated as a Tennis player three times Davis Cup.
- 2.1 International
Career
Vladimír Zábrodský, son of Oldrich Zábrodský and the Russian Olga Nikitina, began at the age of five years with the skating. At seven, he had the first time a hockey stick in his hand and the age of nine he began training at the LTC Prague. From 1939 he played for the men's team of the club and won with this four times the Czechoslovak Championship ( 1946-1949 ), three times the Spengler Cup three times and was top scorer in the Czechoslovak league. Since his childhood Zábrodský played together as a center with the left wing Stanislav Konopásek, with whom he also played for the national team in a row. The right wing was later completed by Jaroslav Juhan, Joseph Kus, František Ladislav Pergl or Troják, and Václav Roziňák. 1948 traveled the LTC Prague to Russia and completed some games - so Zábrodský is one of the first foreign hockey players who completed a hockey game in the USSR and thus helped the development of the Soviet ice hockey.
In addition to his career as a hockey player, he also played tennis and took three times, in 1948, 1955 and 1956 at the Davis Cup in part.
Between 1950 and 1960, playing for Spartak Zábrodský CKD Sokolovo in the first league of Czechoslovakia and was with Sparta twice champion of Czechoslovakia, in 1953 and 1954. Moreover, he reached three times the top scorer of the league in 1954 with 30, 1957 with 33 and 1959 with 23 gates. 1960 Zábrodský is suspended due to a betting scandal and had for three years in a labor camp in Ostrava, where he worked in the mine. In 1963 he returned to Prague and played two more seasons for the Bohemians CKD Prague, before he ended his career. In Czechoslovak league Zábrodský completed a total of 230 games in 18 seasons in which he scored 306 goals.
His particular strength was his excellent puck -handed leadership that gave his team some victories. In addition, he was a dominant player, who won a game alone and motivate players. In contrast, he often clashes with coaches, such as Mike Buckna, the coach of the national team in the 1940s.
In 1965 he went with his family holiday in Yugoslavia. During the trip he fled via Switzerland to Sweden, where he has lived ever since. There, he handled Leksand IF, Rögle BK and Djurgårdens IF as head coach. Today Zábrodský lives in Stockholm.
In 1997, he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame. More than ten years later, in 2008, he was inducted into the Czech Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2003, he entered into a documentation of Czech Television, Česká televise under which Tirel Hokej srdci v - v Srdce hokeji on. 2004 voted him the fans of HC Sparta Prague on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the club in the century selection. In 2008 he received the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, the Golden medal of honor of the President.
Internationally
Vladimír Zábrodský was in the 1940s and 1950s, starting players and sometimes captain of the Czechoslovakian national team. He participated in six World Championships and two Olympic Games in part, in which he won four medals in 1947 and 1949 he was World Champion, he also won the bronze medal at the World Cup 1955 at the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz 1948, he was the top scorer of the tournament and. led his team to six wins and one defeat, what this brought the silver medal. Overall Zábrodský scored 158 goals in 93 international matches, including 29 goals alone at the World Championships in 1947 and 21 goals at the Olympic Winter Games in 1948.
In 1949, he was also a player-coach of the national team.
Before the World Cup 1950 almost the entire national was arrested and convicted on charges of espionage and treason to sentences ranging from eight months to 15 years. Vladimír Zábrodský was neither arrested nor detained is suspected that that Zábrodský testified about his teammates.