Ludwik Gintel

Ludwik Gintel in the spring of 1922

Ludwik Gintel ( born September 26, 1899 in Krakow, † 11 July 1973 in Tel Aviv) was a Polish football player in the service of Cracovia Krakow.

Life and career

Ludwik Gintel was born in 1899 into a Jewish family in Kraków, which was then still part of the Empire of Austria - Hungary. The football games, he began in 1911 at Jutrzenka Krakow. In 1916, he joined at age 17 finally Cracovia Krakow. Gintel should remain faithful to his new club until his career end. In Cracovia is Gintel, which was used as a striker drew even quickly a regular place. From 1921 he was employed in the national team of the newly independent Poland and was in the first game of the national team at all on the court. The game went 1-0 against Hungary lost. With Cracovia, he also won in 1921 also the championship.

In 1924, he was with the national team at the Olympic Summer Games in Paris. The Polish football squad consisted at that time the majority of players from Krakow clubs, in addition to Gintel Henryk Reyman, among others, Leon Sperling or Józef Adamek. In the season of 1928 he was top scorer (28 goals) of the Polish football league. Towards the end of his career was finally Gintel defender. In 1930, he ended his career as a football player, after winning a second time with Cracovia, the Polish Championship. Sperling had until then been in over 320 games for Cracovia in the square and completed 12 games for the Polish national team.

After his football career, he worked as an architect. He eventually emigrated to Palestine and died in 1973 in Tel Aviv.