Glinka Ivan - hockey player who brought the Olympicgold for your country. It was under him that the love of hockey in the Czech Republic was vividly manifested and became noticeable to the whole world. Moreover, the number of fans in the state and their loyalty to hockey rose to unprecedented heights. And this is not surprising, because all over the world hockey occupies a leading position among team games. This sport is not for the weak and truly attracts the attention of fans from simple laborers to the president himself. In addition, Glinka I. entered his name in the history of international hockey as the first European coach and team leader of the NHL.
Short biography of Ivan Glinka
Ivan from the sports family.He was born in 1950, in January, the 26th. His father played football and hockey well, but was not a professional player. Little is known about his childhood. At school, he studied well. In the Russian language was the highest score. According to the hockey player himself, he went in for sports all his childhood and dreamed of becoming a successful football player or hockey player. Ivan trained hard, and over time, hockey became the meaning of his life. As a result, at sixteen he began to play for the Litvinov club, and at twenty - Glinka is already the team captain and is in favor of the NHC.
As a family man, he took place and became the father of three wonderful children: two sons and a daughter.
An interesting fact is that Glinka's grandfather fought against the Reds as part of the Czech corps on the territory of Siberia, and he had to go to Omsk. Grandfather lived to 80 years and died in 1978
Later, coach I. Glinka will work in Omsk and call Avangard to the end of his days as a team.
His life ended tragically in a car accident. This happened on August 16, 2004.
Glinka - player
While still a hockey athlete, he playedseventies strikers for the national team of the Czech Republic. 1972, 1976, 1977 became significant in the career of a hockey player: Ivan Glinka became the world champion. He was able to participate in eleven such tournaments. 1976 is marked by participation in the Canadian Cup, where he became one of the best strikers. In addition, the hockey player won the gold of the Olympics in 1972 and silver in 1976.
During the 1981/1983 season, Ivan GlinkaHe played for the NHL in Vancouver, where he became one of the first Czech hockey players to go overseas. They played 137 matches in which points were scored: 123 (42 +81). In the playoffs on his account thirteen matches and thirteen (3 + 10) points. In 1983, the hero of our article and the Canucks played in the final game of the Stanley Cup. The sixty (23 + 37) points gained during the 1981/1982 seasonal year were the best result (at that time) in the entire history of Vancouver among newcomers. Later this figure exceeded the Russian hockey player Pavel Bure.
The international career of a hockey player was completed with an excellent (132 times) game in the national team.
Glinka - coach
In 1983Czechoslovak hockey player Glinka Ivan returned to Europe, where he ended his career as a player in the Swiss club EV-Zug. And in 1985 began his coaching career. His main achievements as a specialist, of course, are related to work in the Czech national team. As a coach, Ivan Glinka began his journey in Pittsburgh. His leader was Brooks. As a result, 3 months before the end of the 1999/2000 sports season, he began to manage the Penguins. Subsequently, the names of these two famous coaches will have an indirect tragic interweaving ...
Глинка был очень уважаемым человеком как в Чехии, and beyond. As a coach, Glinka led the Czech team to victory in two world championships, to the three prize results - at the Olympic Games. This includes the resulting gold in Nagano-98.
Coaching
After he became Brooks's assistant“Pittsburgh”, “Penguins” won 11 games out of 24, and entered the second round in the playoffs. The arrival of Glinka on June 21, 2000 to the position of the head coach of the team coincided with the return of the legend of Pittsburgh Mario Lemieux to great hockey. "Penguins" won in forty-two games for the game season. As a result, they fought in the Eastern Conference finals with future champions from New Jersey.
Но никакие успехи не уберегли Глинку от layoffs at the beginning of the next season, since four meetings at the start were lost, and the team looked disorganized and unprepared. 55.8% of success was shown along with the “Penguins” by Glinka Ivan. His career, despite the previous high results, as the head coach of this team was interrupted by the dismissal. Although, by the way, this figure was the third achievement regarding the Pittsburgh coaches in the entire history of the team.
Reasons for resignation
Among these reasons, the main one is unwillingness.master the language. Such an unfriendly relationship with English imprinted on relationships with many stars in the team. It was replaced by R. Kehoe (10/14/2001), his assistant. Glinka was very educated in the field of hockey, had a broad outlook, extensive experience. But the language barrier has become an insoluble problem for him. Among the players were North American hockey players. They did not want to learn the language of the country in which they trained. Therefore, they were forced to listen to Czech speech. Apparently, this did not suit many. Although those who played under the leadership of Ivan Glinka, fully understood his demands, doing without translation.
Return to Europe
После того как завершен был «североамериканский» experience has changed and coaching biography. Glinka Ivan returned to Europe, where he was appointed general manager of the Czech Olympic team in 2002. In the same year, he was elected to the hockey Hall of Fame of the International Federation. Some time later, Glinka was appointed to the position of head coach of the Czech team to participate in the World Cup. In 2001 he was recognized as the best coach of the Czech Republic.
Интересным фактом в жизни Глинки является момент his consent to become a coach of Omsk Avangard - one of the leading Russian hockey clubs. In the "Avangard" also played several compatriots of the Czech coach.
Tragic death
1 year and 5 days after what happened inMinnesota car crash and the death of Brooks in it (August 11, 2003); Ivan Glinka likewise died (August 16, 2004). He was only fifty-four years old.
This happened in the Czech Republic, near Karlovy Vary.Coach car collided with an oncoming truck. After the accident, Ivan Glinka was taken to hospital, where after a while he still went to another world. The injuries sustained in the accident were incompatible with life. It is known that before the tragedy, he visited the banquet of the Czech hockey federation, met with the former Penguin forward Jagr Jaromir, who agreed to play in the World Cup, joining the Czech team.
The death of the national team mentor causedshock of the whole people of the Czech Republic. The country was in undeclared mourning. Within 4 hours after the tragic events, the central Czech sports publication posted at least a dozen materials describing the incident, the President’s address, and also highlighted some moments of life that Ivan Glinka lived - a great hockey player and a man with a capital letter! Above the headquarters of the Olympic mission of the Czechs in Athens, where the Summer Olympics were held at that time, the flag of the nation was lowered.
Glinka Ivan - the idol of many hockey players to this day. His contribution to the development of Czech hockey is difficult to overestimate - it is invaluable.
