Henryk Alszer

Henryk Alszer

Personal information
Date of birth	(1918-05-07)7 May 1918
Place of birth	Chorzów, Poland
Date of death	31 December 1959(1959-12-31) (aged 41)
Place of death	Ruda Śląska, Poland
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	RKS Hajduki
	Hajduczanka Hajduki
	Azoty Chorzów
	06 Kleofas Katowice
1939–1941	Bergknappen Königshütte
1945	Lens
1946–1947	Forres Mechanics
1947–1957	Ruch Chorzów	176	(51)
1958	Górnik Katowice
1959	Pogoń Nowy Bytom
International career
1948–1955	Poland	13	(2)
Managerial career
1958	Górnik Katowice (player-manager)
1959	Pogoń Nowy Bytom (player-manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Henryk Alszer (7 May 1918 – 31 December 1959) was a Polish footballer. He was part of the Poland national team who were at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Before the war he participated in several sports for the sports and athletic club of RKS Hajduki, but due to the war he, like several others, found himself unable to play football. After the war he went to France to play for RC Lens and to Scotland to play for Forres Mechanics. He returned home in 1947 to play for Ruch Chorzów and aided them to a championship titles in 1951, 1952 and 1953. When he departed from the team in 1958 he had scored 51 goals in 176 matches, and though he moved to Górnik Katowice, he took on more of a coaching role than a playing one.

Alszer played in fourteen international matches, the first of which was against Yugoslavia in 1948.

He died on New Year's Eve in 1959 after being hit by a car.

Honours

Ruch Chorzów

• Ekstraklasa: 1951, 1952, 1953
• Polish Cup: 1950–51

External links

• (in Polish) olimpijski