Józef Klotz
Józef Klotz (2 January 1900–1941) was a Polish footballer who played centre-half.[2][3] He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team. He was killed by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941.
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 2 January 1900 | ||
Place of birth | Kraków, Poland | ||
Date of death | 1941 (40 or 41) | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] |
Biography
Klotz was born in Kraków, southern Poland, and was Jewish.[2][4] His father was a shoemaker.[5]
He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team. He scored it against Sweden in Stockholm in May 1922, in the team's third international match.[4][6][2][7][8]
Klotz played for two clubs. He played first for Jutrzenka Kraków, which he joined as a youth team player and played for from 1912 to 1925, and then for Maccabi Warszawa from 1925 to 1929 (both teams were Jewish minority teams).[9][5][10] He retired as a player in 1930.[5]
He was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. He was murdered there by the Germans in 1941.[4][11][8][2][5]
In 2019, Klotz was honored by the Polish Football Association.[4][12]
Club career
- 1910–1925 Jutrzenka Kraków
- 1925–1927 Maccabi Warszawa
- 1927– ? ? ?
See also
References
- "Jozef Klotz - Stats - titles won". www.footballdatabase.eu.
- Bolchover, David (May 6, 2019). "Remembering the cream of Jewish footballing talent killed in the Holocaust". The Guardian.
- Grunwald-Spier, Agnes (2016). Who Betrayed the Jews?: The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust. The History Press. ISBN 9780750958011 – via Google Books.
- "Poland honors national soccer player murdered in Holocaust" Israel HaYom, June 11, 2019.
- Nick Westerby (June 10, 2019). "The man who scored Poland's first ever goal remembered ahead of tonight's game against Israel". The First News.
- Radosław Kossakowski, Przemysław Nosal, Wojciech Woźniak (2020). Politics, Ideology and Football Fandom; The Transformation of Modern Poland
- Henryk Vogler (1994). Wyznanie mojżeszowe: wspomnienia z utraconego czasu. pg 16: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. p. 123. ISBN 83-06-02355-2.CS1 maint: location (link)
- Eldad Beck (August 8, 2010). "Anti-Semitism feared ahead of Euro 2012". Ynetnews.
- Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Józef Klotz". www.national-football-teams.com.
- Liphshiz, Cnaan (June 7, 2019). "Polish soccer team honors Holocaust victim who scored its 1st international goal". The Times of Israel.
- Grunwald-Spier, Agnes (2016). Who Betrayed the Jews?: The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust. The History Press. ISBN 9780750958011 – via Google Books.
- "Before Polish-Israeli soccer match, murdered Jewish player honored". The Jerusalem Post. June 10, 2019.
Sources
- ^ Andrzej Gowarzewski "FUJI Football Encyclopedia – History of the Polish National Team (1) – White and Red" ; GiA Katowice 1991