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Karl Braunsteiner

Karl Braunsteiner
Braunsteiner-Brandstätter.jpg
Karl Braunsteiner and Josef Brandstätter
Personal information
Date of birth (1891-10-27)27 October 1891
Date of death 19 April 1916(1916-04-19) (aged 24)
Place of death Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Wiener SC
National team
Austria 8 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Karl Braunsteiner (27 October 1891 – 19 April 1916 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) was an Austrian football (soccer) player.

Regarded as one of the biggest talents of his era, the small defender played for Wiener Sportclub.

During World War I he came to Poland as a gunner. He was captured and died in Tashkent due to typhoid fever as a prisoner of war.

Braunsteiner was a member of the Austrian Olympic squad at the 1912 Summer Olympics and played two matches in the main tournament as well as three matches in the consolation tournament.

For the Austrian national team he played 8 games.


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