Slovak hockey has been hit by tragic news. Marko Milý, a former goalkeeper and later goalkeeper coach for national teams, died at the age of 54. According to witnesses, he committed suicide on Saturday evening.
“With deep sadness in our hearts, we announce that at the age of 54, father, husband, coach, great friend and great person Marko Milý has left us forever,” the Košice hockey club said on its website.
“We will always remember him at the club as an ever-smiling and hard-working goalkeeper and coach who passed on his rich experience whether in the A-team or in the youth,” Košice said in a statement.
Milý has been catching for them in the federal league since the 1990/1991 season, he also worked in a separate Slovak competition in Prešov and Spišská Nová Ves. In the year 1998/1999, he celebrated the championship title with Košice.
After ending his playing career, he worked as a goalkeeping coach, a role he also held for youth national teams. He worked for the Košice A-team until the 2021/2022 season, in the current one he helped with the youth club.
He decided to end his life under the wheels of a freight train, which caught him and killed him in the village of Haniska, just a few kilometers from Košice.
The train driver, whose breath test was negative, honked at him, but Milý did not react and continued to sit on the tracks. “He just plugged his ears,” the website kosicednes.sk quotes eyewitnesses.
“From 8:05 p.m. traffic was interrupted in the Drienovská Nová Ves – Prešov section. It was resumed on this section at 10:22 p.m.,” said Ria Feik Achbergerová, spokeswoman for the Railways of the Slovak Republic.
2023-10-30 15:13:06
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