Adam Obrubański
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Adam Obrubański (18 December 1892 – April 1940)[1] was a Polish football player and official, also a graduate of Kraków’s renowned Jagiellonian University.
Born in
Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny
daily. In 1932 he took his PhD in law at Jagiellonian University.
After retiring from an active football career (Obrubański represented Wisła Kraków and ŁKS Łódź), he became an influential official of the Polish Football Association and manager of the Poland national team[2] as well as a referee. He was the first Pole to achieve the status of an international football referee. Obrubański officiated in the Olympic Football Tournament in 1924.[3][4]
Obrubański died during the
Katyn Massacre
.
References
- ^ a b "Adam Obrubański". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 August 2021.He does not appear in their lists of Olympians who died as a result of war or who were killed in the Katyn massacre.
- ^ "About Poland national football team | Artrocker". Archived from the original on 2011-06-21. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
- ^ [1] FIFA.com]
- ^ [2] FIFA.com]
External links
- (in English) Bibliography of the Katyn crime by Maria Harz, Warszawa 1993
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