Jiří Lála (born August 21, 1959 in

Tábor Tábor (; german: Tabor) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 33,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation. Administrative parts The followi ...

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

) is a retired professional

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player who played in the

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. He played for HC Jihlava. He was a member of the Czechoslovak

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team and was a silver medallist at the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games ( Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки иг� ...

. He was named the best forward at the 1983

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and was the top scorer on the Czechoslovak team that won the world championship in

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, with 13 points (8+5) in 10 games. After 510 games and 297 goals in Czechoslovakia, he moved to

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in 1989. He immediately became the top scorer for his home team Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1989/90 and 1990/91 seasons. After heavy mismanagement and near bankruptcy of Eintracht Frankfurt, he played for Mannheimer ERC for two seasons, until he returned to Frankfurt in the 1994/95 season to play in the newly formed

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team. He retired from the sport in 2006. Lála was inducted into the

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on May 6, 2010.

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