Hungarian footballer and manager (1896?1944)
Arpad Weisz
(
Hungarian pronunciation:
[?aːrpaːd
?v?is]
; also spelt
Veisz
; 16 April 1896 ? 31 January 1944) was a Hungarian Olympic
football
player and manager. Weisz was
Jewish
,
[4]
[2]
and was murdered with his wife and children by the
Nazis
during
the Holocaust
in
World War II
at
Auschwitz
.
[5]
Playing career
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Weisz played club football as a
left winger
in Hungary for
Torekves SE
,
[2]
in Czechoslovakia for Makabi Brno, and in Italy for
Alessandria
and
Inter Milan
.
[6]
Weisz earned seven international caps between 1922 and 1923, and was a member of the Hungarian squad at the
1924 Summer Olympics
in Paris.
[7]
A serious injury cut short his playing career.
[1]
Coaching career
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After retiring as a player in 1926, Weisz became an assistant coach at
Alessandria
before moving to
Inter Milan
, where at the age of 34 he won one championship in the 1929?1930 season.
[8]
[2]
[9]
Weisz had three separate spells as manager of Inter, 1926?28, 1929?31, and 1932?34, managing
Giuseppe Meazza
among his players. He also coached
Bari
,
Novara
and
Bologna
, 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 the
Italian Racial Laws
.
[10]
[11]
[12]
Weisz finished his career by coaching
Dordrecht
in the Netherlands,
[11]
leaving in 1940 following the outbreak of the
Second World War
.
[6]
Four years later he was arrested by the
SS
and murdered by the Nazis at
Auschwitz 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 at
Birkenau
.
[9]
[5]
Legacy
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In January 2020,
Chelsea
unveiled a mural by
Solomon Souza
on an outside wall of the West Stand at
Stamford Bridge
. The mural is part of Chelsea's 'Say No to Antisemitism' campaign funded by club owner
Roman Abramovich
. Included on the mural are depictions of footballers
Julius Hirsch
and Weisz, who were killed at
Auschwitz concentration camp
, and Ron Jones, a British
prisoner of war
known as the 'Goalkeeper of Auschwitz'.
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Davide Astori Fair Play Award
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