József Braun

József Braun

Personal information
Full name	József Braun Barna
Date of birth	26 February 1901
Place of birth	Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	20 February 1943
Place of death	Kharkiv, Ukraine
Playing position	right winger
Youth career
-1916	VAC Budapest
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1916-1925	MTK Budapest
1929	Brooklyn Hakoah	17	(1)
1929-1930	Brooklyn Wanderers	11	(2)
National team
1918-1926	Hungary	27	(11)
Teams managed
1934-1937	ŠK Slovan Bratislava
1937-1939	MTK
1938	ŠK Slovan Bratislava
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

József Braun (26 February 1901 – 20 February 1943 ) was a Hungarian footballer who played as a half back. Braun began his career in Hungary before finishing it in the American Soccer League. He earned 27 caps, scoring 11 goals, with the Hungarian national team. After retiring from playing, he coached for several years. Braun died in 1943 in a Nazi forced labor camp.^[1] He was Jewish.^[2]

Club career

Braun played as youth with VAC Budapest. In 1916, he signed for MTK Budapest in the Hungarian League where he played primarily as a right wing back. In 1919, he was selected as the Hungarian Player of the Year. He retired from playing in 1925 after suffering from multiple injuries. During his years with MTK Budapest, Braun won nine Hungarian championships and 2 Hungarian cups. In 1929, he moved to the United States where he attempted a come back with the Brooklyn Hakoah of the American Soccer League. He played seventeen games before moving to the Brooklyn Wanderers in the fall of 1929. He played eleven games during the 1929-1930 season, then retired permanently.^[3]

National team

Braun earned twenty-seven caps, scoring eleven goals, with the Hungarian national team.^[4] His first came in an 6 October 1918 victory over Austria. His last came in a 3-3 tie with Poland in December 1926. He was a member of the Hungarian soccer team at the 1924 Summer Olympics where he played two games.^[5]

Coach

Braun later coached ŠK Slovan Bratislava from 1935 to 1938.

References

1. Schaffer, Kay; Smith, Sidonie (2000). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Rutgers University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 978-0-8135-2820-5.
3. Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921-1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. (ISBN 0-8108-3429-4).
4. Goalscoring for Hungary National Team
5. József Braun – FIFA competition record