Adam Obrubański (18 December 1892 – April 1940)
[He does not appear in their lists of Olympians who died as a result of war or who were killed in the Katyn massacre.] was a Polish association football, football player and official, also a graduate of Kraków’s renowned Jagiellonian University.
Born in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine in 1892, he was a student at the Faculty of Philosophy and later at the Faculty of Law. In the years 1914–1922 he served in the Austria-Hungary, Austrian and later the Polish Army. Then, he worked as a reporter for Kraków's Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny daily. In 1932 he took his PhD in law at Jagiellonian University.
After retiring from an active football career (Obrubański represented Wisła Kraków and ŁKS Łódź), he became an influential official of the Polish Football Association and manager of the Poland national team
as well as a referee. He was the first Pole to achieve the status of an international football referee. Obrubański officiated in the Olympic Football Tournament in 1924.
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Obrubański died during the Second World War some time at Katyn Massacre, Katyn in April 1940,
[ aged 47, murdered by the Soviet Union, Soviets in the Katyn Massacre.
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References
External links
* ''Bibliography of the Katyn crime'' by Maria Harz, Warszawa 1993
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1892 births
1940 deaths
People from Kopychyntsi
Sportspeople from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Jagiellonian University alumni
Polish people of World War I
Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I
Polish military personnel
Polish men's footballers
Polish football managers
Katyn massacre victims
Polish civilians killed in World War II
Polish soldiers
World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union
Men's association football forwards
ŁKS Łódź players
Wisła Kraków players
ŁKS Łódź managers
Poland national football team managers