Our hockey was nice to watch
Jaromír Meixner was born March 11, 1940 in Brno. He has been playing ice hockey since he was a little boy. His father who was a keen ice hockey fan introduced him to the sport. Jaromír started in the sport club SK Královo Pole. He was playing ice hockey throughout the whole duration of his military service, and this was the first time when he was able to fully concentrate on hockey without having to go to work. When he completed the compulsory military service, he was drafted to the club Rudá hvězda (Red Star) in Brno, which was later renamed to Kometa Brno. Jaromír became an excellent ice hockey player and he played in the world championship with the national team in 1965 and 1966. Jaromír had prearranged a contract with a foreign team in 1968, but after the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies to Czechoslovakia he was not able to travel abroad anymore. He quit his career as an ice hockey player in 1973 and he became a sports reporter and a coach of young ice hockey players. In 2016 he lives in Brno.
