Luca Zanatta
{{Short description|Italian ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
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| name = Luca Zanatta
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|5|15}}
| birth_place = Pieve di Cadore, Italy
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 1
| weight_lb = 198
| position = Defence
| shoots = Left
| league = 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
| ntl_team = ITA
| career_start = 2008
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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
He started in the juvenile hockey team HC Lugano, where his father has been assistant coach and suddenly coach of the first team.{{cite web | url = http://www.eliteprospects.com/staff.php?staff=1622 | title = Ivano Zanatta Team Staff History | website = eliteprospects.com | access-date = Sep 20, 2018 | language = sv, en | archive-url = https://archive.today/20180923200319/https://www.eliteprospects.com/staff/1622/ivano-zanatta | archive-date = September 23, 2018 | url-status = live }}
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.{{cite web | url = http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=34301 | title = Luca Zanatta career statistics | language = sv, en | website = eliteprospects.com | access-date = Sep 23, 2018 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20180923200552/https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/34301/luca-zanatta | archive-date = September 23, 2018 | url-status = live }} In February 2012, he had an accident that obliged him to a period of medical rehabilitation.{{cite web | url = http://www.gobelluno.it/2012/02/14/hockey-cortina-infortunio-extrasportivo-alla-gamba-per-luca-zanatta/ | title = Hockey Cortina: infortunio extrasportivo alla gamba per Luca Zanatta | date = Feb 14, 2012 | quotation = «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. | access-date = Sep 20, 2018 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20180923090235/http://www.gobelluno.it/2012/02/14/hockey-cortina-infortunio-extrasportivo-alla-gamba-per-luca-zanatta/ | archive-date = September 23, 2018 | url-status = live }}
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.{{cite web | url = http://www.rsi.ch/sport/hockey/Michele-e-Luca-Zanatta-al-Martigny-627175.html | title = Michele e Luca Zanatta al Martigny | website = rsi.ch | access-date = Sep 20, 2018 | date = May 8, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150427111612/http://www.rsi.ch/sport/hockey/Michele-e-Luca-Zanatta-al-Martigny-627175.html | archive-date = April 27, 2015 | url-status = live}} 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.{{cite web| url = http://swisshockeynews.ch/index.php/switzerland/nla-new/6123-hc-red-ice-s-luca-zanatta-joins-geneve-servette-hc-via-b-license | title = HC Red Ice's Luca Zanatta joins Genève-Servette HC via B-License|language=en|access-date = Sep 20, 2018 | date = Mar 16, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160818102908/http://swisshockeynews.ch/index.php/switzerland/nla-new/6123-hc-red-ice-s-luca-zanatta-joins-geneve-servette-hc-via-b-license | archive-date = August 18, 2016 | url-status = live}}
After the elimination of the Martigny during the playoffs, Zanatta signed a two-year contract with the EHC Olten.{{cite web | url = http://www.ehco.ch/de/olten-verpflichtet-luca-zanatta-_content---1--1--1860.html | access-date = Sep 20, 2018 | date = Mar 10, 2017 | language = de | title = Olten verpflichtet Luca Zanatta | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171109084914/http://www.ehco.ch/de/olten-verpflichtet-luca-zanatta-_content---1--1--1860.html | archive-date = November 9, 2017 | url-status = live}}{{cite web | url = http://www.hockeytime.net/2017/03/10/luca-zanatta-allolten | title = Luca Zanatta all'Olten | author1 = Tony Puma | language = it | access-date = Sep 20, 2018 | date = Mar 10, 2017 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20180923202947/https://www.hockeytime.net/2017/03/10/luca-zanatta-allolten/ | archive-date = September 23, 2018 | url-status = live }}
In 2014, he started on playing with the Italian National Team.
The next year, he participated at the 2015 First Division World Cup in Poland.{{cite web | url = http://www.hockeytime.net/2015/04/15/nazionale-il-roster-definitivo-per-i-mondiali | title = Nazionale: il roster definitivo per i mondiali | language = it | access-date = Sep 20, 2018 | date = Apr 15, 2015 | website = hockeytime.net | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150419052527/http://www.hockeytime.net/2015/04/15/nazionale-il-roster-definitivo-per-i-mondiali | archive-date = April 19, 2015 | url-status = live}} In 2017, he participated to the IIHF World Championship.{{cite web | url = https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/416/IHM4160ITA_33_1_0_ITA.pdf | title = 2017 World Championship roster | language = en | access-date = Sep 20, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170517060006/https://reports.iihf.hockey/Hydra/416/IHM4160ITA_33_1_0_ITA.pdf | archive-date = May 17, 2017 | work = IIHF | url-status = live }}
References
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External links
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Category:Italian ice hockey defencemen
Category:Italian expatriate ice hockey people
Category:Genève-Servette HC players
Category:Italian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Category:Ice hockey people from the Province of Belluno
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