In Japan they called me Kaberle San
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František Kaberle was born on 6 August 1951 in Kladno. His parents worked as store clerks, František had a younger sister named Vilma. He started ice skating at six years old and played soccer as well, but when we was seventeen he set his sights on playing hockey. He played for the first-league team of Kladno for most of his career. He studied electrical technology at technical school and in 1972 he went to fulfill his required military service at the hockey club Dukla Jihlava. In 1974 he won the Czechoslovak championship with the team and fought his way onto the Czechoslovak national team. Between 1975 and 1980 he won the Czechoslovak championship five times with the hockey club Poldi SONP Kladno. With the national team he won two world championship titles in 1976 and 1977, and, in the ranks of the national team, he played in the finale of the Canada Cup 1976, in which Czechoslovakia lost to the Canadian home team. Two sons, František a Tomáš, were born to him and his wife Ludmila in 1973 and 1978, respectively, both of which would go on to become world champions with the Czechoslovak national team and win the Stanley Cup with their different teams. Following the end of his career as a player, František Kaberle trained youth in Kladno and worked also a secretary for his club. In 2020 he lived in his hometown of Velká Dobrá and was retired.
