Ron Berteling

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Ron Berteling
Ron Berteling.jpg
Berteling in 1975
Born (1957-09-06) 6 September 1957 (age 67)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb; 12 st 6 lb)
Position Forward
Shot Left
Played for Amsterdam Tigers
Rotterdam Panda's
Amsterdam G's
National teamFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Playing career 1974–2013

Ron Berteling (born 6 September 1957) is a Dutch retired ice hockey player and coach. He represented the Netherlands ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics, and served as captain of the Netherlands men's national ice hockey team from 1982 to 1993. He appeared in 14 Ice Hockey World Championships, and holds the record of 213 games played for the national team. He played in 26 seasons of the Eredivisie, competing the Netherlands' top league for the Amsterdam Tigers and the Rotterdam Panda's. He was named the league's most valuable player for the 1987–88 season, won four Eredivisie titles, five Dutch Cups as a player and a sixth as a coach. He received the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1994, was made the namesake of the Ron Berteling Schaal in 2007, and received the Torriani Award from the International Ice Hockey Federation in 2020.

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Early life

Berteling was born on 6 September 1957, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. [1] [2] [3] His family was active in sports and basketball. He began ice skating at age seven, and also played football and tennis as a youth. [1] [3] He began playing ice hockey in 1964, on the only outdoor rink in Amsterdam. [4] He was attracted to the game due to its speed and the desire to play a team sport. Wayne Gretzky was one of his early hockey heroes. [5]

Playing career

Berteling's professional hockey career began at age 17, when he made his debut in the Netherlands' top league (Eredivisie) during the 1974–75 season. [3] His first Ice Hockey World Championships was in 1978 with the Netherlands men's national ice hockey team at age 20, in which he helped his country earn promotion from Group C to Group B. He returned the following year and helped the Netherlands earn promotion again at the 1979 World Championships from Group B to Group A for the 1981 World Championships, and qualify for ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics. [3] He won his first Dutch Cup as a player, with Amsterdam in 1980. [6] He became captain of the Netherlands national team in 1982, serving in the role until 1993. [2] [3] Playing on Amsterdam, he won his first Eredivisie and another Dutch Cup in 1985. [7]

Berteling changed teams in 1986, and won another Eredivisie title and a Dutch Cup with Rotterdam in 1987. [8] He was named the most valuable player of the Eredivisie for the 1987–88 season, and received the Frans Henrichs Cup. [2] He won two more Eredivisie titles with Rotterdam in 1989 and 1990, and two Dutch Cups in 1990 and 1991. [9] [10] [11] He initially retired as a professional player in 1995, but returned three seasons later to the Netherlands second division. He played 11 games during the 1998–99 Eredivisie season and appeared in the 1999 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships at age 41. He played a total of 13 professional games during the next 14 seasons as a part-time player, and as an occasional player-coach until 2013. [2]

Berteling finished his career playing 213 games and scored 195 points for the Netherlands national team at World Championships, the Olympic Games and other international events. He holds the record of the most games played for the national team as of 2020. [1] [3] He scored more than 1,600 points and played over 900 career games combined in all levels of play, and appeared in 14 Ice Hockey World Championships. [1] He was referred to as "Mister Ice Hockey" in the Netherlands, [3] [4] and was respected for his sportsmanship and was regularly among the least penalised players in the Netherlands. [1] [3]

Coaching career

Berteling served as head coach of the Amsterdam Tigers from 2006 to 2011. [2] While coaching the Tigers, he won his sixth Dutch Cup in 2007, [12] and served as an assistant coach on the Netherlands men's national under-18 ice hockey team. [2] He later served as head coach of the Amsterdam Capitals during the 2011–12 season, the Amsterdam G's during the 2012–13 season, and the Amsterdam Tigers again during the 2015–16 season. [2] During the 2012–13 season, he played one game in the Eredivisie at age 55, on a forward line with his son. [4] Berteling retired from coaching professional hockey in 2016. [13]

Later life

Berteling retired to live in Amsterdam with his wife. He has stated that, "Amsterdam is a big city, but unfortunately there is little to no hockey publicity". He felt hockey teams should use social media to attract people to the game. [5] In retirement from coaching, he has focused on teaching hockey at clinics, [13] and worked a motivational speaker for sports teams. [14] As of 2020, he was conducting training sessions for youths and adults in Alkmaar, and wanted to stay involved for the love of the game. [15]

Honours and awards

Knight's Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau Knight Orange Nassau AEAColl.jpg
Knight's Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau

Berteling became the first Dutch hockey player to be knighted in the Netherlands, when he received the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1994. [3] The Netherlands Ice Hockey Association established the Ron Berteling Schaal in 2007 named after him. It is a cup competition played as the first game of a season, between the winner of the previous Eredivisie season and the reigning Dutch Cup champion. [1] On 4 February 2020, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) named him that year's recipient of the Torriani Award, for an ice hockey player with an "outstanding career from non-top hockey nation". The formal presentation was scheduled for the 2020 IIHF World Championship in Zürich, [3] but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until the 2020/2022 IIHF Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the 2022 IIHF World Championship. [4] Berteling was the first Dutch person to receive the Torriani Award. [15]

Career statistics

Professional Netherlands league statistics. [2]

  Regular Season
SeasonTeamLeagueGP G A Pts PIM
1974–75 Amsterdam Tigers Eredivisie 11122
1975–76 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie2513162914
1976–77 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie3212243612
1977–78 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie301929484
1978–79 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie3624295328
1979–80 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie3017254232
1980–81 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie3131316220
1981–82 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie2825275228
1982–83 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie2825234812
1983–84 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie2826285410
1984–85 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie3534498320
1985–86 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie3834427632
1986–87 Rotterdam Panda's Eredivisie2617234016
1987–88 Rotterdam Panda'sEredivisie2830376710
1988–89 Rotterdam Panda'sEredivisie2712243610
1989–90 Rotterdam Panda'sEredivisie2821224318
1990–91 Rotterdam Panda'sEredivisie241721382
1991–92 Rotterdam Panda'sEredivisie3420365616
1992–93 Rotterdam Panda'sEredivisie2816375312
1993–94 Rotterdam Panda'sEredivisie202232544
1994–95 Rotterdam Panda'sEredivisie362738656
1997–98Amsterdam Tigers IIEerste Divisie485134
1998–99 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie1178152
1999–2000 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie43142
2001–02 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie20000
2006–07 Amsterdam TigersEredivisie42242
2010–11Amsterdam Tigers IIEerste Divisie13250
2012–13 Amsterdam G's Eredivisie10000
Eredivisie regular season totals6154556051060314

International play

International statistics at the World Championships and Winter Olympics. [1] [2]

YearTeamEventResultGPGAPtsPIM
1978 Netherlands World Championships Group C Gold medal icon.svg73478
1979Netherlands World Championships Group B Gold medal icon.svg63250
1980Netherlands Winter Olympics 9th50000
1981Netherlands World Championships Group A 8th82020
1982Netherlands World Championships Group B 8th70224
1983Netherlands World Championships Group C Gold medal icon.svg778156
1985Netherlands World Championships Group B 6th733610
1986Netherlands World Championships Group B 5th72574
1987Netherlands World Championships Group B 7th755102
1989Netherlands World Championships Group C Gold medal icon.svg756112
1990Netherlands World Championships Group B 8th71124
1991Netherlands World Championships Group B 7th72134
1992Netherlands World Championships Group B Silver medal icon.svg747112
1993Netherlands World Championships Group B Bronze medal icon.svg746106
1999Netherlands World Championships Group C Gold medal icon.svg57074
Winter Olympics and World Championships totals 10148509856

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