Józef Klotz
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography Józef Klotz (2 January 1900 – 1941) was a Jewish Polish footballer who played as a forward.[1][2] He scored the first ever goal for the Poland national team. He was killed by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941.
Biography
Klotz was born in Kraków, southern Poland, and was Jewish.[1][3] His father was a shoemaker.[4]
He scored the first ever goal for the Poland national team. He scored it against Sweden in Stockholm in May 1922, in the team's third international match.[3][5][1][6][7]
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 Makabi Warsaw from 1925 to 1929 (both teams were Jewish minority teams).[8][4][9] He retired as a player in 1930.[4]
He was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. He was murdered there by the Germans in 1941.[3][10][7][1][4]
In 2019, Klotz was honored by the Polish Football Association.[3][11]
See also
References
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- ↑ Radosław Kossakowski, Przemysław Nosal, Wojciech Woźniak (2020). Politics, Ideology and Football Fandom; The Transformation of Modern Poland
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Sources
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ Andrzej Gowarzewski "FUJI Football Encyclopedia – History of the Polish National Team (1) – White and Red" ; GiA Katowice 1991
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