Leon Sperling
| Leon Sperling | ||
 Sperling (fourth from right)
with the team from Cracovia Krakow (1921) |
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| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Leon Sperling | |
| birthday | 7th August 1900 | |
| place of birth | Krakow , Austria-Hungary | |
| date of death | between December 15 and 20, 1941 | |
| Place of death | Lviv , General Government of Poland | |
| size | 164 cm | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1914-1917 | Jutrzenka Kraków | |
| 1917 | Cracovia Krakow | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1918-1920 | Jutrzenka Krakow | |
| 1920-1934 | Cracovia Krakow | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1921-1930 | Poland | 16 (2) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Leon Sperling (born August 7, 1900 in Krakow , † between December 15 and 20, 1941 in Lemberg ) was a Polish football player who played for Cracovia Krakow .
life and career
Leon Sperling was born on August 7, 1900 into a Jewish family in Krakow , which at that time was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . He began playing football at the age of 14 at Jutrzenka Kraków , where he played from 1914 to 1917. He then moved briefly to city rivals Cracovia Krakow , but returned to his old club a year later. In addition to football, he completed a bank apprenticeship. In 1920 Sperling moved again and this time for good to Cracovia, where he was to remain until the end of his playing career. There the striker, who is only 1.64 meters tall, quickly won a regular place. With Cracovia, Sperling was able to win the Polish football championship three times (1921, 1930, 1932) .
Sperling was also a member of the Polish national football team and completed a total of 16 games for them, in which he scored two goals. He also represented his home country as a football player at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris . The Polish squad included players such as Henryk Reyman , Emil Görlitz and Józef Kałuża . In 1934 he finally ended his career as an active player. In total, he had completed 381 games for Cracovia, 84 of them from 1927, the year the Polish Football League was founded . Sperling later settled in Lemberg in eastern Poland .
During the Second World War , Lviv was captured by German troops. Because of his Jewish origins, Sperling was interned in the Lemberg Ghetto and shot there by a drunken guard between December 15 and 20, 1941.
Web links
- Leon Sperling in the database of weltfussball.de
- Leon Sperling in the club wiki of KS Cracovia Krakau
Individual evidence
- ↑ Józef Kałuża, Epizody z epopei hiszpańskiej "Cracovii" - Przegląd Sportowy, January 7, 1928
- ↑ http://www.olimpijski.pl/pl/pages/display/15843
- ↑ Mieczysław Szymkowiak, Młodość jest najpiękniejsza. "Historia polskiej piłki nożnej". No. 2, p. 5. Warszawa: TM-SEMIC sp. z oo
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sperling, Leon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th August 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |
| DATE OF DEATH | between December 15, 1941 and December 20, 1941 |
| Place of death | Lviv |