Personal information | |||
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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) [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 | ||
International career | |||
1922 | Poland | 2 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Józef Klotz (2 January 1900 – 1941) was a Jewish 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.
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]
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