Harald Kaarman

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Harald Kaarman
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Harald Kaarman (1924)
Personnel
birthday December 12, 1901
place of birth PaideEstonia Governorate
date of death August 19, 1942
Place of death SverdlovskSoviet Union
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
JK Tallinna Kalev
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1921-1924 JK Tallinna Kalev
1926 Tallinna JK
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1921-1926 Estonia 17 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Harald Kaarman (n) (born December 12, 1901 in Paide , Estonia Governorate , † August 19, 1942 in the Sverdlovsk POW camp , Soviet Union ) was an Estonian football player . With the Estonian national soccer team he took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris . In 1935 he established his family name in Kaarma.

Career

Harald Kaarman started his football career at the age of 20 with JK Tallinna Kalev . With the club for which he was active for three years, he was able to win the Estonian championship in 1923. After he was without a club in 1925, Kaarman played in 1926 for a year for Tallinna JK with whom he was able to win his second championship.

In July 1921, Harald Kaarman made his debut in the Estonian national team against Sweden in Tallinn. For Estonia, it was only the second international match in history after the October Revolution and the associated independence from the Russian Empire .

Three years later he took part in the Summer Olympics in Paris with the selection of Estonia . In addition to August Lass , Heinrich Paal and Ernst-Aleksander Joll , he was the most experienced player in the Estonian squad with 10 international appearances . In the football tournament , the midfielder came to a use under Ferenc Kónya against the USA in the Stade Pershing . The last of a total of 17 international matches in which he should not score, he completed in September 1926 against Latvia in Riga .

Later years

In 1926 Kaarman probably ended his football career, a year earlier (1925) he had already interrupted his career and no longer played an official game. From 1920 he studied at the Technical University of Tallinn . After the end of his active sports career, he worked as a functionary for the Estonian Football Association. He represented Estonia at the FIFA Congress in Paris in 1924. He later worked for the Estonian police. In his role as a police officer, he was deported to the Stalinist gulag system between 1940 and 1941 after the Soviet occupation of Estonia in World War II , like many other Estonians . He was executed on August 19, 1942, a year after his deportation , at the age of 40 in the Sverdlovsk prison camp .

successes

with the JK Tallinna Kalev:

with the Tallinna JK:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Football international match: Estonia 0: Sweden. eu-football.info, July 22, 1921, accessed on March 6, 2014 (English).
  2. Football international: Estonia 0-1 USA. eu-football.info, May 25, 1924, accessed on March 6, 2014 (English).
  3. Football international: Latvia 0: 1 (0: 0) Estonia. eu-football.info, September 19, 1926, accessed on March 6, 2014 (English).