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Arno Del Curto (r.) Makes his comeback as a hooded hockey gang.
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The cult coach can be admired again at the gang.
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His adventure with the ZSC Lions was a short one.
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Del Curto’s last game as a ZSC coach was on March 23, 2019. At that time in the playout.
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Del Curto has achieved legendary status at the HCD.
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Was it just a matter of time before his hockey passion Arno Del Curto drives again? At yesterday’s home game of Swiss league team La Chaux-de-Fonds against Kloten, the Engadine stood next to the official interim coach Loic Burkhalter (39). The del curto effect? The 63-year-old – clearly recognizable despite the hood – gave most instructions, according to observers. And the Jurassians won 3-2 against the leader …
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Del Curto’s last game as a ZSC coach was on March 23, 2019. At that time in the playout. Since the Zurich still pulled out of the delicate affair in the placement round and escaped the playout final. His contract with ZSC was not renewed. The career of a coach icon (23 years with the HCD) ended (too) quietly and quietly.
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Also because Del Curto didn’t want it any other way. The Engadine personifies hockey passion on the ice and in the gang. But in the spring of 2019, he consciously withdrew from the public. Was glad if you didn’t recognize him in everyday life, didn’t want to have anything to do with ice hockey or be associated with it. The joy of it had passed, he wasn’t even watching games. He had finished with that.
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It took a call from Loic Burkhalter
Del Curto took the time to travel. With the side effect that he was able to review and somehow process a lot from the past years as a trainer. This did not bring him closer to ice hockey. It took a call from Loic Burkhalter in early December last year. Since his time at HC Davos (2005 to 2008), the two men have been friends. Burkhalter had switched to the gang at La Chaux-de-Fonds as head of sports because he had released Mikael Kvarnström (43, Sd) due to poor results.
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As passionate as Del Curto is, he is also helpful and social. For Burkhalter, the cult coach returned as his advisor, the club itself declared it to be a friendship service. There was talk of one training a week. But what happens when a passion that has burned for a lifetime is still dormant somewhere? As soon as the rest of the embers are lit, they flare up again. This is obviously what happened to Del Curto, who drove the players yesterday with his familiar gestures.
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