Mieczysław Batsch

Batsch in 1925

Józef Mieczysław Batsch ( born January 1, 1900 in Lemberg, Austria - Hungary, † September 27, 1977 in Przemysl ) was a Polish football player.

Life and career

Mieczysław Batsch was born in 1900 in Lvov, which was then still part of the Empire of Austria -Hungary. In 1916 he joined the football club Pogoń Lwów, for which he soon ran aground on a regular basis. His talent was recognized soon, to participate with the Polish national football team at the Summer Olympics in 1920 was only prevented by the Polish-Soviet War. But his first international match for Poland, he had in 1923, in a game against Romania. Between 1922 and 1926 Batsch could achieve with Pogon Lwów four times the Polish Soccer Cup, 1923, he was top scorer in the league.

In 1929, he finally ended his football career and devoted himself completely to his studies in mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic Lviv, which he completed in 1931. Subsequently he was for some years at the club Oldboye Lwów active, but no longer in professional football. After the Second World War Batschs hometown fell to the Soviet Union and he moved to Przemysl. There he worked as a railway engineer and died in 1977.