Karl Braunsteiner Explained

Karl Braunsteiner
Height:	1.680NaN0
Birth Date:	27 October 1891
Death Place:	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Clubs1:	Wiener SC
Nationalteam1:	Austria
Nationalcaps1:	8
Nationalgoals1:	0

Karl Braunsteiner (27 October 1891 – 19 April 1916) was an Austrian football (soccer) player.^[1]

Club career

Regarded as one of the biggest talents of his era, the small defender played for Wiener Sportclub.

During World War I he came to Poland as a gunner. He was captured and died in Tashkent due to typhoid fever as a prisoner of war.^[2]

International career

Braunsteiner was a member of the Austrian Olympic squad at the 1912 Summer Olympics and played two matches in the main tournament as well as three matches in the consolation tournament.^{[3] [4]}

For the Austria national football team he played 8 games.

See also

• List of Olympians killed in World War I

External links

• WSC profile

Notes and References

1. Web site: Karl Braunsteiner . Olympedia . 26 May 2021.
2. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . 3 August 2015 . Sports Reference.
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20121022125419/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=293504/index.html Record at FIFA Tournaments
4. Web site: Karl Braunsteiner . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418070222/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/karl-braunsteiner-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 3 August 2015 . Sports Reference.