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Hockey Players

Hockey Players
Miercurea Ciuc, Romania. Ice Hockey players monument. June 1994 (3975244230)
Sludge G, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Csík
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.3582671783, 25.8009162048
Google map:

History

The statue of Tőrös Gábor, erected in 1978, is a reminder of the founders of European ice hockey - two Transylvanian Hungarian sportsmen (Czáka István and Vákár Lajos). It was Europe's first statue of a hockey player in 1975, preceded by statues in Russia, Sweden and Czechoslovakia. In 1923, Vákár Lajos (1910-1993) learned of the Canadian hockey from a movie clip. In January 1929, the first ice hockey club of the town of Csíkszereda was founded on the initiative of Vákár Lajos and his friends. Between 1929 and 1954 he was a player of the ice hockey team of Csíkszereda.

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