Józef Lustgarten
Józef Lustgarten (1 November 1889, Krakow - 22 September 1973, Kraków) was a Polish footballer.[1]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1 November 1889 | ||
| Place of birth | Krakow, Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 22 September 1973 | ||
| Place of death | Kraków, Poland | ||
Born in Cracow, 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 spent 17 years in forced labor camps.[5] After returning to Poland, he became the honorary president of "Cracovia Kraków" club.
References
- Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII
- The Fin-de-Siècle World
- Ezra Mendelsohn (2009). Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII. pg 17: Oxford University Press US. p. 384. ISBN 0-19-538291-9.CS1 maint: location (link)
- Józef Lustgarten - national football team manager
- "Cracovia is about the people"
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