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Luca Zanatta

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Luca Zanatta
Born (1991-05-15) May 15, 1991 (age 33)
Pieve di Cadore, Italy
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 198 lb (90 kg; 14 st 2 lb)
Position Defence
Shoots Left
ICEHL team HC Pustertal Wölfe
Played for HC Ceresio
SG Cortina
HC Pieve di Cadore
HC Red Ice
Genève-Servette HC
EHC Olten
EHC Basel
National team  Italy
Playing career 2008–present

Luca Zanatta (born May 31, 1989) is an Italian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for HC Pustertal Wölfe in the ICE Hockey League. He is also a member of the Italian national team.

Career

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He started in the juvenile hockey team HC Lugano, where his father has been assistant coach and suddenly coach of the first team.[1]

After the sportive debut in the Swiss 1. Liga with the Hockey Club Ceresio, in 2009 he returned to Italy, where he enrolled the SG Cortina for five seasons, winning the 2011-2012 Italian Cup.[2] In February 2012, he had an accident that obliged him to a period of medical rehabilitation.[3]

For the years 2014-2015, he come back to Switzerland, where he and his brother Michael signed a contract with the HC Red Ice, playing in the Swiss League.[4] The following season, because the Red Ice Martigny had lost the playoffs he was to the Genève-Servette HC, starting to play in the National League.[5]

After the elimination of the Martigny during the playoffs, Zanatta signed a two-year contract with the EHC Olten.[6][7]

In 2014, he started on playing with the Italian National Team.[2] The next year, he participated at the 2015 First Division World Cup in Poland.[8] In 2017, he participated to the IIHF World Championship.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Ivano Zanatta Team Staff History". eliteprospects.com (in Swedish and English). Archived from the original on September 23, 2018. Retrieved Sep 20, 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Luca Zanatta career statistics". eliteprospects.com (in Swedish and English). Archived from the original on September 23, 2018. Retrieved Sep 23, 2018.
  3. ^ "Hockey Cortina: infortunio extrasportivo alla gamba per Luca Zanatta". Feb 14, 2012. Archived from the original on September 23, 2018. Retrieved Sep 20, 2018. «He was at dinner in a mountain shelter, together with other team companions. A the end of the dinner, going out with a sledge, he had that accident. Perhaps, those are things that happen.
  4. ^ "Michele e Luca Zanatta al Martigny". rsi.ch. May 8, 2014. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved Sep 20, 2018.
  5. ^ "HC Red Ice's Luca Zanatta joins Genève-Servette HC via B-License". Mar 16, 2016. Archived from the original on August 18, 2016. Retrieved Sep 20, 2018.
  6. ^ "Olten verpflichtet Luca Zanatta" (in German). Mar 10, 2017. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved Sep 20, 2018.
  7. ^ Tony Puma (Mar 10, 2017). "Luca Zanatta all'Olten" (in Italian). Archived from the original on September 23, 2018. Retrieved Sep 20, 2018.
  8. ^ "Nazionale: il roster definitivo per i mondiali". hockeytime.net (in Italian). Apr 15, 2015. Archived from the original on April 19, 2015. Retrieved Sep 20, 2018.
  9. ^ "2017 World Championship roster" (PDF). IIHF. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved Sep 20, 2018.
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