Árpád Weisz

Árpád Weisz

Personal information
Full name	Árpád Weisz
Date of birth	(1896-04-16)16 April 1896
Place of birth	Solt, Austria–Hungary
Date of death	31 January 1944(1944-01-31) (aged 47)
Place of death	Auschwitz, Poland
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1922–1923	Törekvés SE	?	(?)
1923–1924	Makkabi Brno	?	(?)
1924–1925	Alessandria	6	(1)
1925–1926	Internazionale	11	(3)
National team
1922–1923	Hungary	7	(0)
Teams managed
1926–1928	Internazionale
1929–1931	Internazionale
1931–1932	Bari
1932–1933	Internazionale
1933–1934	Novara
1934–1938	Bologna
1938–1940	DFC
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Árpád Weisz (also spelt Veisz; 16 April 1896 – 31 January 1944) was a Hungarian football player and manager. Weisz was Jewish, and died during The Holocaust in World War II at Auschwitz.

Career

Playing career

Weisz played club football in Hungary for Törekvés SE, in Czechoslovakia for Makkabi Brno, and in Italy for Alessandria and Internazionale.

Weisz earned seven international caps between 1922 and 1923, and was a member of the Hungrian squad at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Coaching career

After retiring as a player in 1926, Weisz became an assistant coach at Alessandria before moving to Internazionale, where he was manager for three spells – between 1926 and 1928, between 1929 and 1931, and 1932 and 1934. He also coached Bari, Novara and Bologna. Weisz finished his career by coaching DFC in the Netherlands, leaving in 1940 following the outbreak of the Second World War. He died four years later at Auschwitz.

External links

• Jews In Sports
• RSSSF