Józef Lustgarten

Polish footballer

Józef Lustgarten
Personal information
Date of birth	1 November 1889
Place of birth	Kraków, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	22 September 1973
Place of death	Kraków, Poland

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

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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mendelsohn, Ezra (March 31, 2009). Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199724796 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b Saler, Michael (November 20, 2014). The Fin-de-Siècle World. Routledge. ISBN 9781317604808 – via Google Books.
^ 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.
^ "Józef Lustgarten - national football team manager". eu-football.info.
^ "History | Cracovia". en.cracovia.pl.