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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Xaver Unsinn, German Olympic ice hockey player and coach, died he was 82.

Xaver Unsinn  was a German ice hockey player and coach died he was 82.. His greatest success was winning the bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics as coach of the German national team.[1] He also competed at the 1952 and 1960 Winter Olympics.[2]


(29 November 1929 – 4 January 2012)


Unsinn was coach of the German national team on three occasions, 1964, 1975 to 1977 and, again, from 1981 to 1990, coaching the team in 221 internationals.[1]
As a player, he spent most of his career with the EV Füssen, which he won eight national German championships with. As a club coach he also won three German and one Swiss national championships with the Düsseldorfer EG, Berliner SC and SC Bern.[3]
He is a member of the IIHF Hall of Fame and has also been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[4]




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