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Józef Lustgarten

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Józef Lustgarten
Personal information
Date of birth (1889-11-01)1 November 1889
Place of birth Kraków, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 22 September 1973(1973-09-22) (aged 83)
Place of death Kraków, Poland
Position(s) Goalkeeper, left midfielder, forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1906–1911 Cracovia
1912–1918 Cracovia
Managerial career
1912–1914 Cracovia (informal)
1922 Poland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Józef Lustgarten (1 November 1889 – 22 September 1973) was a Polish Jewish footballer.[1]

BIography

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Born in Kraków, he was Jewish.[1][2] He represented Cracovia.[3][1][2] He also represented Poland in international matches.[1] He was the first manager of the Poland national football team in 1922.[4]

During World War II, he was arrested in Lwów in 1939 by the Soviet NKVD, and sent to the Gulag, where he spent 17 years in forced labor camps.[5] After returning to Poland, he became the honorary president of Cracovia.[citation needed]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Mendelsohn, Ezra (March 31, 2009). Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199724796 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b Saler, Michael (November 20, 2014). The Fin-de-Siècle World. Routledge. ISBN 9781317604808 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Ezra Mendelsohn (2009). Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII. Oxford University Press US. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-19-538291-4.
  4. ^ "Józef Lustgarten - national football team manager". eu-football.info.
  5. ^ "History | Cracovia". en.cracovia.pl.
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