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Józef Klotz (2 January 1900 – 1941) was a Polish footballer who played centre-half.[2][3] He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team. He was killed by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941.

Józef Klotz

Personal information
Date of birth	2 January 1900
Place of birth	Kraków, Poland
Date of death	1941 (aged 40–41)
Place of death	Warsaw Ghetto, Poland
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s)	centre-half
Youth career
1910–1912	Jutrzenka Cracow
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1912–1925	Jutrzenka Cracow
1925–1929	Maccabi Warsaw
National team
1922	Poland	2	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Biography

Klotz was born in Kraków, southern Poland, and was Jewish.[2][4] His father was a shoemaker.[5]

He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team. He scored it against Sweden in Stockholm in May 1922, in the team's third international match.[4][6][2][7][8]

Klotz played for two clubs. He played first for Jutrzenka Kraków, which he joined as a youth team player and played for from 1912 to 1925, and then for Maccabi Warszawa from 1925 to 1929 (both teams were Jewish minority teams).[9][5][10] He retired as a player in 1930.[5]

He was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. He was murdered there by the Germans in 1941.[4][11][8][2][5]

In 2019, Klotz was honored by the Polish Football Association.[4][12]

Statistics

Club career

• 1910–1925 Jutrzenka Kraków
• 1925–1929 Maccabi Warszawa

International

• 14.5.1922 Kraków

Poland 0:3 Hungary

• 28.5.1922 Stockholm

Sweden 1:2 Poland

See also

• Polish soccer (football) in interwar period
• List of select Jewish football (association; soccer) players

References

Sources

• ^ Andrzej Gowarzewski "FUJI Football Encyclopedia – History of the Polish National Team (1) – White and Red" ; GiA Katowice 1991

На других языках

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[de] Józef Klotz

Józef Klotz (* 2. Januar 1900 in Krakau; † 1941 in Warschau) war ein polnischer Fußballspieler, der wegen seiner jüdischen Abstammung Opfer des Holocausts wurde. 1922 schoss er das erste Tor in der Geschichte der polnischen Fußballnationalmannschaft.

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- [en] Józef Klotz

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[ru] Клоц, Юзеф

Ю́зеф Клоц (польск. Józef Klotz; 2 января 1900 (1900-01-02), Краков, Польша — 1941, Варшава) — польский футболист еврейского происхождения, защитник клубов «Ютженка» (Краков) и Маккаби (Варшава)[1]. Автор первого гола в истории польской сборной[2].

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