Józef Lustgarten

Józef Lustgarten (1 November 1889 – 22 September 1973) was a Polish Jewish footballer.^[1]

Józef Lustgarten

Personal information
Date of birth	(1889-11-01)1 November 1889
Place of birth	Kraków, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	22 September 1973(1973-09-22) (aged 83)
Place of death	Kraków, Poland
Position(s)	Goalkeeper, left midfielder, forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1906–1911	Cracovia
1912–1918	Cracovia
Managerial career
1912–1914	Cracovia (informal)
1922	Poland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

BIography

Born in Kraków, 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 he spent 17 years in forced labor camps.^[5] After returning to Poland, he became the honorary president of Cracovia.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of select Jewish football players

References

1. Mendelsohn, Ezra (March 31, 2009). Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199724796 – via Google Books.
2. Saler, Michael (November 20, 2014). The Fin-de-Siècle World. Routledge. ISBN 9781317604808 – via Google Books.
3. Ezra Mendelsohn (2009). Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII. Oxford University Press US. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-19-538291-4.
4. "Józef Lustgarten - national football team manager". eu-football.info.
5. "History | Cracovia". en.cracovia.pl.

External links

• Józef Lustgarten manager profile at EU-Football.info