Stanislav Neveselý Source: Profimedia.sk
PRAGUE – Stanislav Neveselý, a former hockey player and coach, died today at the age of 87.
This was reported by the iDNES.cz server with reference to information from the former Jihlava forward Augustín Žák.
In 1985, Neveselý, as Luďko Bukač’s assistant, led the Czechoslovak national team to victory at the World Championships in Prague. The year before, he took part in winning silver medals from the Olympic Games in Sarajevo.
In Jihlava, Neveselý won eight league championships as a junior coach together with Jaroslav Pitner and another three as a senior coach with Jaroslav Holík.
During his active career, the native of Brilice near Třebon played from 1959 for Sparta Prague and from 1964 to 1967 for Dukla Jihlava. In the first league, he played 168 matches over six seasons and scored 33 goals.
His goal in Sparta’s match against Slovan Bratislava at the end of the 1961/62 season was memorable, when he beat Vladimír Dzurilla with a shot almost from the goal line. Sparta won 2:1 in Bratislava and Slovan lost the championship title, which was won by Červená hviezda Brno.
A member of the Czech Hockey Hall of Fame, he was a coach in Switzerland until the mid-1990s. In 1991, he was the head coach of the Czechoslovak team at the World Cup in Finland, which took sixth place at the tournament.
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2023-07-24 20:47:42
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