Henryk Alszer (7 May 1918 – 31 December 1959) was a Polish
footballer
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. He was part of the
Poland national team who were at the
1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.
After Japan declared in ...
.
Before the war he participated in several sports for the sports and athletic club of RKS Hajduki, but due to the war he, like several others, found himself unable to play football. After the war he went to France to play for
RC Lens
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and to Scotland to play for
Forres Mechanics. He returned home in 1947 to play for
Ruch Chorzów
Ruch Chorzów () is a Polish professional association football, football club based in Chorzów, Upper Silesia. It is one of the most successful football teams in Poland, having won fourteen List of Polish football champions, Polish Championship ...
and aided them to a
championship titles in 1951, 1952 and 1953. When he departed from the team in 1958 he had scored 51 goals in 176 matches, and though he moved to
Górnik Katowice
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, he took on more of a coaching role than a playing one.
Alszer played in fourteen international matches, the first of which was against
Yugoslavia
, common_name = Yugoslavia
, life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation
, p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia
, flag_p ...
in 1948.
He died on New Year's Eve in 1959 after being hit by a car.
Honours
Ruch Chorzów
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Ekstraklasa
(; meaning "Extra Class" in Polish), officially known as PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa due to its Sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is a professional association football league in Poland and the highest level of the Polish foo ...
:
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the Uni ...
,
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, ...
,
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...
*
Polish Cup
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: 1950–51
References
External links
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1918 births
1959 deaths
Footballers from Chorzów
Sportspeople from the Province of Silesia
Men's association football forwards
Polish men's footballers
RC Lens players
Forres Mechanics F.C. players
Ruch Chorzów players
Ekstraklasa players
Poland men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for Poland
Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Polish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Polish expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
Polish expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
Polish football managers
Men's association football player-managers
20th-century Polish sportsmen
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