Stefan Mair starts an adventure in Switzerland

“A team doesn’t have to be strong on paper, it’s my job to make Hockey Thurgau strong,” said Mair, bursting with enthusiasm in a first statement on the Swiss second division club’s website. According to Weinfelder on their homepage, the 49-year-old was Hockey Thurgau's absolute preferred candidate and the collaboration was officially announced on Thursday.

Second foreign adventure For Stefan Mair, this is the second foreign adventure in his 12-year coaching career. From 2012 to 2014, the man from Bolzano was in charge of the German second division team Schwenninger Wild Wings and led the team to the play-off final in his first year, which he lost, but later made it into the DEL through association channels. In 2014 he was released in November after eight defeats in a row.

Trainer since 2002 During his active times, Mair was on the ice for, among others, HC Bozen, Milan, HC Pustertal, Meran and Vipiteno. After ending his career as a player in 2002, he dared to become a coach in the same year, first taking over the Meran U-18 team, later the Passerstädter first team, then the U-18 national team for two years before he subsequently held the assistant position at HC Bozens and the head coaching positions at Fassa, Pustertal and later Cortina. The Bolzano native has been the coach of the Italian national ice hockey team since 2014, which he led from the 1st division to the top division this year. He will take up his new position in Weinfelden (Canton of Thurgau) on August 5th, but will also continue to lead the Blue Team in parallel with his new job.

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Stefan Mair starts an adventure in Switzerland

The coach of the Italian national team will in future hold the position of head coach of the Swiss second division team Hockey Thurgau. He continues his work as head coach of the Blue team.

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