Józef Lustgarten Explained

Józef Lustgarten
Birth Date:	1 November 1889
Birth Place:	Kraków, Austria-Hungary
Death Date:	22 September 1973
Death Place:	Kraków, Poland

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

BIography

Born in Kraków, he was Jewish.^[2] He represented Cracovia.^[3] He also represented Poland in international matches. 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.

See also

• List of select Jewish football players

Notes and References

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