Marian Spoida
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Marian Spoida | |
| birthday | January 4, 1901 | |
| place of birth | Poznan , German Empire | |
| date of death | April 16, 1940 | |
| Place of death | Katyn , Soviet Union | |
| position | defender | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1915-1916 | KS Posnania | |
| 1916-1919 | Warta poses | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1919-1929 | Warta poses | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1922-1928 | Poland | 14 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1929-1931 | Legia poses | |
| 1931-1939 | Polish National Team (Assistant) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Marian Spoida (born January 4, 1901 in Poznan , † April 16, 1940 in Katyn ) was a Polish football player and coach. In 1940 he was the victim of the Katyn massacre of Polish officers by the Soviet secret police NKVD .
Life
Spoida was born a Prussian citizen, his parents were Poles. He received a German school education, as Polish was only allowed for religious instruction in schools in the province of Poznan . In 1918, at the age of 17, he registered with the Polish associations that wanted to join the province after the end of the First World War to the re-established Polish state . This goal was achieved with the Wielkopolska Uprising .
Spoida joined the newly formed Polish armed forces . He took part in the Polish-Soviet war, which also ended victoriously in 1920. A year later he retired from military service with the rank of lieutenant . At first he worked in a bank in Poznan. In 1931 he joined the Polish Football Association PZPN .
With the general mobilization at the end of August 1939, he was called up as a lieutenant in the reserve for a telecommunications unit . In the second half of September he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and was deported to the Koselsk special camp in the Russian district of Kaluga . He was one of the Polish officers who were taken to a forest around 300 kilometers to the west not far from the village of Katyn in April 1940 and shot there. His remains were identified by Polish pathologists , who carried out exhumations under German supervision in the spring of 1943 after the discovery of the mass graves , using his dog tag , his identity card and the Warta Posen membership card . On the list of names of the Katyn victims distributed by the Foreign Office , he can be found under the number 3624, but his name was incorrectly spelled “Spoją”.
In 2007, President Lech Kaczyński posthumously promoted all officers murdered in Katyn by one rank. Spoida was thus granted the rank of first lieutenant.
Athletic career
As a teenager, Spoida joined the Posnania association, whose members wanted to demonstrate their Polity to an unfriendly Prussian government. After a year he switched to Warta, also an association of Polish patriots. At the age of 18 he earned a regular place in the 1st team.
On September 3, 1922, he first appeared for the national team, he took part in a friendly against Romania in Chernivtsi ; the game ended 1: 1. In 1924 he took part with the national team at the Olympic Games in Paris . But after a 5-0 defeat in the first game against Hungary , the Poles had to make their way home, Spoida was the youngest of the players used. On July 1, 1928, he wore the national jersey for the last time in the 2-1 victory over Sweden in Katowice , in which the later DFB President Peco Bauwens acted as referee ; it was his 14th international match.
With him as team captain, Warta Posen became Polish champions for the first time in 1929 , and the team's goal-scorer was Friedrich Scherfke , who belonged to the German minority . With the championship celebration, Spoida ended his active career and took over the voluntary coaching position at the second division club Legia Poznań.
In 1931 he was employed by the PZPN as an assistant coach, he became the most important employee of the national coach Józef Kałuża . He stayed on when the former Schalke coach Kurt Otto was in charge of the national team from 1935 to 1937 .
Spoida sat next to Kałuża, who had returned to his previous position, in the coaching bench when Poland lost 5-6 after extra time in a legendary game against Brazil in Strasbourg in 1938 in its first World Cup appearance . His last assignment for the PZPN was the 4-2 victory over vice world champion Hungary on August 27, 1939, four and a half days before the German attack on Poland .
Web links
- National Digital Archives (NAC) (photos 1924–1939)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rbb internet portal for Germans and Poles .
- ↑ futbol.pl ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 11, 2008.
- ↑ poznan.sport.pl December 27, 2012.
- ↑ Warta Poznań website
- ↑ interia.pl April 16, 2010
- ^ Gazeta Wyborcza (Poznań) April 10, 2010.
- ↑ Official material on the Katyn mass murder , Berlin 1943, p. 260
- ↑ Gazety Wyborcza ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 7, 2007.
- ↑ Józef Halys: Piłka nożna w Polsce . TI Kraków 1981, p. 123.
- ↑ Przegląd Sportowy September 8, 1922, p. 5
- ↑ Andrzej Gowarzewski: Biało-czerwonych 1921-2001. Katowice 2001, p. 23
- ↑ Przegląd Sportowy July 8, 1928, p. 1
- ↑ poznan.sport.pl June 5, 2013
- ↑ fifa.com June 3, 2009
- ↑ Przegląd Sportowy August 28, 1939, p. 1
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Spoida, Marian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1940 |
| Place of death | Katyn |