Henryk Alszer (7 May 1918 – 31 December 1959) was a Polish footballer. He was part of the Poland national team who were at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[1]

Henryk Alszer
Personal information
Date of birth (1918-05-07)7 May 1918
Place of birth Chorzów, Poland
Date of death 31 December 1959(1959-12-31) (aged 41)
Place of death Ruda Śląska, Poland
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
RKS Hajduki
Hajduczanka Hajduki
Azoty Chorzów
06 Kleofas Katowice
1939–1941 Bergknappen Königshütte
1945 Lens
1946–1947 Forres Mechanics
1947–1957 Ruch Chorzów 176 (51)
1958 Górnik Katowice
1959 Pogoń Nowy Bytom
International career
1948–1955 Poland 13 (2)
Managerial career
1958 Górnik Katowice (player-manager)
1959 Pogoń Nowy Bytom (player-manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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 and to Scotland to play for Forres Mechanics. He returned home in 1947 to play for Ruch Chorzów 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, 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 in 1948.

He died on New Year's Eve in 1959 after being hit by a car.[2]

Honours

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Ruch Chorzów[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Henryk Alszer". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Wspomnienie Henryka Alszera" (in Polish). Ruch Chorzów. 31 December 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
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