Karl Braunsteiner
Appearance
![]() Karl Braunsteiner and Josef Brandstätter | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 27 October 1891 | ||
Date of death | 19 April 1916 | (aged 24)||
Place of death | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | ||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Position(s) | defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Wiener SC | |||
International career | |||
Austria | 8 | (0) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Karl Braunsteiner (27 October 1891 – 19 April 1916) was an Austrian football (soccer) player.[1]
Club career
[edit]Regarded as one of the biggest talents of his era, the small defender played for Wiener Sportclub.
During World War I he came to Poland as a gunner. He was captured and died in Tashkent due to typhoid fever as a prisoner of war.[2]
International career
[edit]Braunsteiner was a member of the Austrian Olympic squad at the 1912 Summer Olympics and played two matches in the main tournament as well as three matches in the consolation tournament.[3][4]
For the Austria national football team he played 8 games.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Karl Braunsteiner". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA
- ^ "Karl Braunsteiner". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
External links
[edit]- WSC profile (in German)
Categories:
- 1891 births
- 1916 deaths
- Austrian men's footballers
- Austria men's international footballers
- Olympic footballers for Austria
- Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Austrian prisoners of war
- World War I prisoners of war held by Russia
- Men's association football defenders
- Wiener Sport-Club players
- Deaths from typhoid fever
- Austro-Hungarian military personnel killed in World War I
- Infectious disease deaths in Uzbekistan
- Austrian football defender stubs