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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1896-04-16)16 April 1896 | ||
| Place of birth | Solt,Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 31 January 1944(1944-01-31) (aged 47) | ||
| Place of death | Auschwitz-Birkenau,Germany | ||
| Position | Left winger[1][2] | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1922–1923 | Törekvés SE | ||
| 1923–1924 | Makabi Brno | ||
| 1924–1925 | Alessandria | 6 | (1) |
| 1925–1926 | Inter Milan[3] | 10 | (3) |
| International career | |||
| 1922–1923 | Hungary | 6[4] | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1926–1928 | Inter Milan | ||
| 1929–1931 | Inter Milan | ||
| 1931–1932 | Bari | ||
| 1932–1934 | Inter Milan | ||
| 1934–1935 | Novara | ||
| 1935–1938 | Bologna | ||
| 1938–1940 | Dordrecht | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Árpád Weisz (Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈaːrpaːdˈvɛis]; also speltVeisz; 16 April 1896 – 31 January 1944) was a Hungarianfootballer and manager. Weisz wasJewish[5][2] and was murdered with his wife and children by theNazis duringthe Holocaust inWorld War II atAuschwitz.[6]
Weisz played club football as aleft winger in Hungary forTörekvés SE,[2] in Czechoslovakia for Makabi Brno, and in Italy forAlessandria andInter Milan.[7]
Weisz earned six international caps between 1922 and 1923, and was a member of the Hungarian squad at the1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.[8] A serious injury cut short his playing career.[1]
After retiring as a player in 1926, Weisz became an assistant coach atAlessandria before moving toInter Milan, where at the age of 34 he won one championship in the 1929–1930 season.[9][2][10] Weisz had three separate spells as manager of Inter, 1926–28, 1929–31, and 1932–34, managingGiuseppe Meazza among his players. He also coachedBari,Novara andBologna, where he won two league titles (in 1936 and 1937) before he was forced to flee Italy with his wife and two children following the enactment of theItalian Racial Laws.[11][12][13] Weisz finished his career by coachingDordrecht in the Netherlands,[12] leaving in 1940 following the outbreak of theSecond World War.[7]
Four years later he was arrested by theSS and murdered by the Nazis atAuschwitz concentration camp, with his family of four (including his wife Elena, his son Roberto, and his daughter Clara) when they were gassed immediately upon arriving atBirkenau.[10][6]
In January 2020,Chelsea unveiled a mural bySolomon Souza on an outside wall of the West Stand atStamford Bridge. The mural is part of Chelsea's 'Say No to Antisemitism' campaign funded by club ownerRoman Abramovich. Included on the mural are depictions of footballersJulius Hirsch and Weisz, who were killed atAuschwitz concentration camp, and Ron Jones, a Britishprisoner of war known as the 'Goalkeeper of Auschwitz'.[14]
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