As the senior national team prepares for the world championships, Tamás Sille, the coach of the “white” team for the in house tournament has switched civilian employers as he has been named the new technical director of KMH Budapest.
According to the KMH press release “Tamás Sille will be the club’s technical director starting in April 2016. Tamás not only a hockey player with outstanding hockey knowledge but also a former Hungarian national team member and a “Sapporo hero” he has also shown in youth hockey as well as in the Hungarian and Austrian leagues that he is an outstanding coach. As technical director his first job is get a program together in each all the teams within the club are moving in the same direction and the youth teams improve from year to year.”
Sille has left the assistant coaching position with EBEL squad of Fehérvár AV19 for KMH. “KMH had already asked for help during the season with a coaching change which they managed to solve with Dusan Kapusta who is the coach of the U18 team, aside from the club showed me plans for the future that I really liked. I feel that I have reached the max what I can do as an assistant coach, and I believe this gives me a good opportunity to develop as a coach. Fehérvár president Gábor Ocskay accepted my decision and wished me the best of luck. We have been through alot and had some great experiences together. Fehérvár is a real sports town and I really enjoyed playing and coaching there as well, and the fans were outstanding. KMH is a dynamic club that is always developing, the next step is the Hungarian and Austrian U20 leagues as well as establishing an adult team in the future, in a couple of year we would like to be in the MOL League.”