Bolesław Habowski

Bolesław Habowski
Personal information
Full name Bolesław Józef Habowski
Date of birth (1914-09-13)13 September 1914
Place of birth Kraków, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 21 May 1979(1979-05-21) (aged 64)
Place of death Wendover, United Kingdom
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1930–1938 Wisła Kraków 83 (21)
1939 Junak Drohobycz
1940 Spartak Lviv [uk]
1940 Dynamo Moscow
1941 Spartak Moscow
1945–1946 Carpathians F.C.
International career
1937–1938 Poland 2 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bolesław Józef Habowski (13 September 1914 – 21 May 1979) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward. Having spent the majority of his career at Wisła Kraków, he also represented the Poland national team.[1]

Habowski's debut in the national team came on 10 October 1937 in Warsaw, in a 4–0 win over Yugoslavia. His second and last game in the white-red jersey took place in Riga on 25 September 1938 in a 1–2 loss to Latvia, scoring a goal in the match.

He played as a forward, was regarded as a very fast and tough player, who never gave up. In the years 1934–1938 he played in all Wisła Kraków's games in the Polish top division. Then, sometime between late 1938 and early 1939, he moved to a rising power of Polish football, Junak Drohobycz. During the Polish September Campaign, he was captured by the Soviets and forcefully taken to Siberia. In 1942, he managed to get to the Polish Army in Soviet Union, created by General Władysław Anders. From there, across Africa, he arrived in England, where he stayed and eventually died.

References

  1. ^ "Bolesław Habowski". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 October 2021.


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