Mieczysław Batsch
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mieczysław Józef Batsch | ||
Date of birth | 1 January 1900 | ||
Place of birth | Lemberg, Austria-Hungary | ||
Date of death | 27 September 1977 | (aged 77)||
Place of death | Przemyśl, Poland | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1916–1929 | Pogoń Lwów | ||
1931–1935 | Oldboye Lwów | ||
International career | |||
1923–1926 | Poland | 11 | (8) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mieczysław Józef Batsch a.k.a. Bacz (1 January 1900 – 27 September 1977) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward. He represented Pogoń Lwów, Oldboye Lwów and the Poland national team.
Batsch was a graduate of the mechanical engineering program of Lwów's Technical University (Politechnika Lwowska).
In the 1920s, while he was on the team, Pogoń won multiple national champions (1922, 1923, 1925, 1926). Together with Wacław Kuchar and Józef Garbień, he scored several goals. His career lasted from 1916 to 1929, after which he occasionally played on the team Oldboye Lwów, which consisted of experienced players from Lwów.[1]
On the national team he played in 11 games, scoring 1 goal. Batsch was a member of the side that participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.[2]
Honours
[edit]Pogoń Lwów
References
[edit]- ^ "BATSCH Mieczysław". polska-pilka.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ "Mieczysław Batsch". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Batsch Mieczysław Józef". olimpijski.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- 1900 births
- 1977 deaths
- Footballers from Lviv
- Sportspeople from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Polish Austro-Hungarians
- Lviv Polytechnic alumni
- Men's association football forwards
- Polish men's footballers
- Poland men's international footballers
- Olympic footballers for Poland
- Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Pogoń Lwów players
- Ekstraklasa players
- Polish football forward stubs