Bolesław Habowski Explained

Bolesław Habowski
Fullname:Bolesław Józef Habowski
Birth Date:1914 9, df=y
Birth Place:Kraków, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Wendover, United Kingdom
Position:Striker
Years1:1930–1938
Caps1:83
Goals1:21
Years2:1939
Years3:1940
Years4:1940
Years5:1941
Clubs5:Spartak Moscow
Years6:1945–1946
Clubs6:Carpathians F.C.
Nationalyears1:1937–1938
Nationalteam1:Poland
Nationalcaps1:2
Nationalgoals1:1

Bolesław Józef Habowski (13 September 1914 – 21 May 1979) was a Polish football player from interwar period, representing Wisła Kraków and Poland national football team.[1]

Habowski's debut in the National Team occurred on 10 October 1937 in Warsaw (Poland – Yugoslavia 4–0). His second and last game in white-red jersey took place in Riga, 25 September 1938 (Latvia – Poland 2–1) scoring a goal in the match.

He played in forward, was regarded as a very fast and tough player, who never gave up. In the years 1934–1938 he played in all Wisła Kraków's games in Polish Soccer League. Then, sometime between late 1938 and early 1939, he was purchased by a rising power of Polish soccer, the team of Junak Drohobycz. During the September Campaign, he was captured by the Soviets and forcefully taken to Siberia. In 1942 he managed to get to the Polish Army in Soviet Union, created by General Władysław Anders. From there, across Africa, he arrived in England, where he stayed and eventually died.

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  1. Web site: Bolesław Habowski . worldfootball.net . 3 October 2021.