Józef Klotz

Józef Klotz
Personal information
Date of birth 2 January 1900
Place of birth Kraków, Poland
Date of death 1941
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]

Józef Klotz (2 January 1900–1941), born in Kraków, was a Polish Jewish footballer.[2]

He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team.[3][4] He was connected with two clubs – Jutrzenka Kraków and Maccabi Warszawa (both teams were Jewish minority teams).[5] He was murdered by the Nazis in 1941.[6][4]

Career

Career on the Poland national football team

Poland Poland 0:3 Hungary Hungary

Sweden Sweden 1:2 Poland Poland

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jozef Klotz
  2. ↑ Who Betrayed the Jews?: The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust - Agnes Grunwald-Spier
  3. ↑ Henryk Vogler (1994). Wyznanie mojżeszowe: wspomnienia z utraconego czasu. pg 16: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. p. 123. ISBN 83-06-02355-2.
  4. 1 2 https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3931288,00.html
  5. ↑ "Józef Klotz" | National Football Teams
  6. ↑ Who Betrayed the Jews?: The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust - Agnes Grunwald-Spier

Sources

  • ^ Andrzej Gowarzewski "FUJI Football Encyclopedia – History of the Polish National Team (1) – White and Red" ; GiA Katowice 1991
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