Mieczysław Batsch

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Mieczysław Batsch
Mieczyslaw Batsch.jpg
Batsch in 1925
Personnel
Surname Mieczysław Józef Batsch
birthday January 1, 1900
place of birth Lviv ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death September 27, 1977
Place of death Przemyśl ,  Poland
size 176 cm
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1916-1929 Pogoń Lwów 90 (76)
1931-1935 Oldboye Lwów
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1923-1926 Poland 12 0(9)
1 Only league games are given.

Mieczysław Józef Batsch (born January 1, 1900 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary , † September 27, 1977 in Przemyśl ) was a Polish football player.

life and career

Mieczysław Batsch was born in 1900 in Lemberg, which at that time still belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1916 he joined the football club Pogoń Lwów , for which he soon played regularly. His talent was soon recognized, participation with the Polish national soccer team at the Olympic Summer Games in 1920 was only prevented by the Polish-Soviet war . But he had his first international match for Poland in 1923, in a game against Romania . Between 1922 and 1926 Batsch was able to win the Polish Football Championship a total of four times with Pogon Lwów, in 1923 he was the top scorer in the league.

In 1929 he finally ended his active football career and devoted himself entirely to studying mechanical engineering at the Lemberg Polytechnic , which he completed in 1931. Then he was still active for a few years at the Oldboye Lwów club, but no longer in professional football. After the Second World War, Batsch's hometown fell to the Soviet Union and he moved to Przemyśl . There he worked as a railway engineer and died in 1977.

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personal data
SURNAME Batsch, Mieczysław
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Batsch, Mieczysław Józef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1977
Place of death Przemyśl , Poland