Józef Klotz
Józef Klotz (2 January 1900 – 1941) was a Jewish Polish footballer who played centre-half.
He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team. He was killed by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 2 January 1900 | ||
| Place of birth | Kraków, Galicia, Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 1941 (aged 40–41) | ||
| Place of death | Warsaw Ghetto, General Government | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | centre-half | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1910–1912 | Jutrzenka Cracow | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1912–1925 | Jutrzenka Cracow | ||
| 1925–1929 | Maccabi Warsaw | ||
| International career | |||
| 1922 | Poland | 2 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Biography
Klotz was born in Kraków, southern Poland, and was Jewish. His father was a shoemaker.
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.
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). He retired as a player in 1930.
He was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. He was murdered there by the Germans in 1941.
In 2019, Klotz was honored by the Polish Football Association.
Statistics
Club career
- 1910–1925
Jutrzenka Kraków[1] - 1925–1929 Maccabi Warszawa[2]
International
- 14.5.1922 Kraków
Poland 
0:3 
Hungary
- 28.5.1922 Stockholm
Sweden 
1:2 Poland
See also
References
Sources
- ^ Andrzej Gowarzewski "FUJI Football Encyclopedia – History of the Polish National Team (1) – White and Red" ; GiA Katowice 1991
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