Karl Braunsteiner

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Karl Braunsteiner
Braunsteiner-Brandstätter.jpg
Karl Braunsteiner and Josef Brandstätter
Personal information
Date of birth (1891-10-27)27 October 1891
Date of death 19 April 1916(1916-04-19) (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
National team
Austria 8 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Karl Braunsteiner (27 October 1891 – 19 April 1916) was an Austrian football (soccer) player.[1]

Club career[]

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[]

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 Austrian national team he played 8 games.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Karl Braunsteiner". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA
  4. ^ "Karl Braunsteiner". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.

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