Matjaz Kopitar is a retired Slovenian professional ice hockey player. He is the father of the ice hockey players, Gasper, and Anze Kopitar

Anže Kopitar

Anže Kopitar is a Slovene professional ice hockey player and alternate captain of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League . The first Slovenian to play in the NHL, Kopitar played junior hockey for his hometown team HK Acroni Jesenice and led his native country before he moved to Sweden...

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Career

Kopitar began his career with HK Acroni Jesenice

HK Acroni Jesenice

HK Acroni Jesenice is a Slovenian ice hockey team that currently plays in the Austrian Erste Bank Hockey League. They play their home games at Dvorana Podmežakla in Jesenice.- Before World War 2 :...

 in 1983, and played eleven seasons with the club. He played two seasons with HK Bled, and Klagenfurt AC. He finished his career with HK Maribor in 2003.

Kopitar represented Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

 and Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

 in international competitions.

He coached HK Acroni Jesenice in the 2006-07 season, and the Slovenia men's national ice hockey team at the World Championships in 2011.