Ludwik Gintel

Ludwik Gintel
Personal information
Date of birth 26 September 1899
Place of birth Kraków, Poland
Date of death 11 July 1973
Place of death Tel Aviv, Israel
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Defence - Right-Back or Striker

Ludwik Gintel (לודוויק גינטל; born 26 September 1899 in Kraków, died 11 July 1973 in Tel Aviv was a Polish-Israeli Olympic footballer.[1]

Early and personal life

Gintel was Jewish.[2] He worked as an architect and bank clerk.[3]

Football career

He began his football career playing for the Jewish Sports Association Jutrzenka Kraków.[3] He then played 328 games for KS Cracovia,[4] until 1931, as a defender (later forward). With KS Cracovia, he was twice the champion of Poland (1921 and 1930). In 1928, he was Poland's top scorer.[2]

He was also capped 12 times for the Poland national football team.[3] Included among his appearances for the team was in their first-ever Olympic appearance at the 1924 Olympic Games.[3]

After football career

After the World War II broke out, he emigrated to Palestine.[3] He died in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1973.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ludwik Gintel
  2. 1 2 Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Archiwum ofiar terroru nazistowskiego i komunistycznego w Krakowie 1939 - 1956
  4. ↑ 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.
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