Position: | Forward |
Shoots: | Left |
Played For: | HK Partizan 's-Hertogenbosch Red Eagles Nijmegen Tigers |
Ntl Team: | YUG |
Birth Date: | 1940 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Bačka Palanka, Yugoslavia |
Death Place: | Belgrade, Serbia |
Career Start: | 1965 |
Career End: | 1969 |
Aleksandar Anđelić (16 October 1940 – 24 March 2021) was a Serbian ice hockey coach. He coached primarily in the Netherlands and Germany, and used to coach the Serbian youth team, while working from Toronto.[1] [2]
Born in Bačka Palanka, Andjelic played for Partizan Belgrade in Belgrade before playing in the Netherlands for clubs 's-Hertogenbosch Red Eagles in 1967–68, Nijmegen Tigers in 1968-69 http://www.eurohockey.net/players/show_player.cgi?serial=35715. He played over 40 times for Yugoslavia.
He played for Yugoslavia at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
He coached with a number of clubs: Nijmegen, Heerenveen Flyers, Rotterdam Panda's, Red Eagles 's-Hertogenbosch, IJHC Den Bosch and Zoetermeer Panters in the Netherlands; Schwenninger Wild Wings, Essen Moskitoes, Deggendorf, Grefrather EC, and Adler Mannheim in Germany; EHC Chur, and Rapperswil-Jona in Switzerland; NS Stars U18 in Hungary; and as a skills coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, and Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League.[3] He also coached internationally for the Dutch, Yugoslavian, Serbian and Montenegrin, and Turkish men's national teams.
On March 24, 2021, it was announced in Dutch media Andjelic died in a hospital in Belgrade, after a week of being kept in a coma.[4] He had also tested positive for COVID-19.[5]