Ludwik Gintel

Ludwik Gintel
Ludwik Gintel in the spring of 1922
Personnel
birthday	September 26, 1899
place of birth	Krakow ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	July 11, 1973
Place of death	Tel Aviv ,  Israel
size	178 cm
position	Sturm , defender
Juniors
Years	station
1911-1916	Jutrzenka Kraków
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1916-1930	Cracovia Krakow
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1922-1931	Poland	12 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ludwik Gintel (born September 26, 1899 in Kraków , † July 11, 1973 in Tel Aviv ) was a Polish football player in the service of Cracovia Kraków .

life and career

Ludwik Gintel was born in 1899 into a Jewish family in Krakow, which at that time still belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire . He began playing football in 1911 at Jutrzenka Kraków . In 1916, at the age of 17, he finally moved to Cracovia Krakow. Gintel should remain loyal to his new club until the end of his career. At Cracovia, Gintel, who was used as a striker, quickly established a regular place. From 1921 he was used in the national team of the now independent Poland and was in the national team's first game ever on the field. The game was lost 1-0 against Hungary . With Cracovia he also won the championship in 1921.

In 1924 he was with the national team at the Summer Olympics in Paris . At that time, the Polish football squad consisted mostly of players from the Kraków clubs, alongside Gintel, among others, Henryk Reyman , Leon Sperling and Józef Adamek . In the 1928 season he was the top scorer (28 goals) in the Polish Football League . Towards the end of his career, Gintel was finally a defender. In 1930 he ended his career as an active football player after winning the Polish championship a second time with Cracovia. By then, Sperling had played over 320 games for Cracovia and had played 12 games for the Polish national team.

After his football career he worked as an architect . He finally emigrated to Palestine and died in Tel Aviv in 1973 .

Web links

• Ludwik Gintel in the database of weltfussball.de
• Ludwig Gintel in the club wiki of KS Cracovia Krakau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mieczysław Szymkowiak: Młodość jest najpiękniejsza. "Historia polskiej piłki nożnej". 2, p. 5. Warszawa: TM-SEMIC sp. z oo ISBN 978-8-378-45036-8 .
2. ↑ Ludwik Gintel - historia występów w reprezentancji Polski. In: hppn.pl. Historia Polskiej Piłki Nożnej, accessed on June 28, 2017 . 
3. ^ Diethelm Blecking: Jews and Sports in Poland before the Second World War . In: Ezra Mendelsohn (Ed.): Jews and the Sporting Life Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII . Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-972479-6 , pp. 17 ( Preview in Google Book Search).