József Braun

{{Infobox football biography

| name = József Braun

| image = Braun József labdarúgó (1926 körül).jpg

| caption = Braun in 1926

| fullname =

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1901|02|26}}

| birth_place = Budapest, Austria-Hungary

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1943|02|20|1901|02|26}}

| death_place = Kharkiv, Soviet Union

| position = Right winger

| youthyears1 = –1916

| youthclubs1 = VAC Budapest

| years1 = 1916–1925

| years2 = 1929

| years3 = 1929–1930

| clubs1 = MTK Budapest

| clubs2 = Brooklyn Hakoah

| clubs3 = Brooklyn Wanderers

| caps1 =

| caps2 = 17

| caps3 = 11

| goals1 =

| goals2 = 1

| goals3 = 2

| nationalyears1 = 1918–1926

| nationalteam1 = Hungary

| nationalcaps1 = 27

| nationalgoals1 = 11

| manageryears1 = 1932

| manageryears2 = 1934–1937

| manageryears3 = 1937–1939

| manageryears4 = 1938

| managerclubs1 = Norway[https://eu-football.info/_manager.php?id=1286 Info about manager position]

| managerclubs2 = ŠK Slovan Bratislava

| managerclubs3 = MTK

| managerclubs4 = ŠK Slovan Bratislava

}}

József Braun (also known as József Barna; 26 February 1901 – 20 February 1943) was a Hungarian Olympic footballer who played as a right wing back.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25660 |title=József Braun |work=Olympedia |access-date=23 August 2021}} Braun began his career in Hungary before finishing it in the American Soccer League. He earned 27 caps, scoring 11 goals, with the Hungary national team. After retiring from playing, he coached for several years. Braun was killed in 1943 in a Nazi forced labor camp.{{cite book|last1=Schaffer|first1=Kay|last2=Smith|first2=Sidonie|title=The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMzYdZpk8qMC&q=holocaust+%22After+the+games%22&pg=PA61|year=2000|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-2820-5|pages=60–62}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |access-date=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}}

Early and personal life

He was Jewish.{{cite book|author=Bob Wechsler|title=Day by Day in Jewish Sports History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&pg=PA107|year=2008|publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc.|isbn=978-0-88125-969-8|page=107}} His nephew is András Kepes journalist, documentary filmmaker and author.[http://zsido.com/fejezetek/mit-jelent-az-hogy-dizso-interju-kepes-andrassal/ Mit jelent az, hogy "dizsó"? - Interjú Kepes Andrással], Zsido.com; accessed 24 March 2018.

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. During his years with MTK Budapest, Braun won nine Hungarian championships and two Hungarian cups.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/may/06/remembering-the-cream-of-jewish-footballing-talent-killed-in-the-holocaust|title=Remembering the cream of Jewish footballing talent killed in the Holocaust|first=David|last=Bolchover|newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 May 2019|via=www.theguardian.com}} He retired from playing in 1925 after suffering from multiple injuries.

In 1929, he moved to the United States, where he attempted a comeback with the Brooklyn Hakoah of the American Soccer League. He played 17 games before moving to the Brooklyn Wanderers in the fall of 1929. He played 11 games during the 1929–30 season, then retired permanently.{{cite book | last = Jose | first = Colin | title = American Soccer League, 1921-1931 | type = Hardback | publisher = The Scarecrow Press | year = 1998 | isbn = 0-8108-3429-4 | id = () }}

National team

File:1924 valogatott.jpg, Zoltán Opata, Ferenc Hirzer, Rudolf Jeny, József Eisenhoffer, Béla Guttmann, Gyula Mándi, Gábor Obitz, József Braun, György Orth, János Biri, and Gyula Kiss]]

After making his international debut at 17 years of age, Braun earned 27 caps, scoring 11 goals, with the Hungary national team.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/hong-recintlp.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061019162341/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/hong-recintlp.html|url-status=live|title=Hungary - Record International Players|archive-date=19 October 2006|website=RSSSF}} His first came in a 6 October 1918 victory over Austria.[https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=4791 Austria vs Hungary 0 : 3] His last came in a 3–3 tie with Portugal in December 1926.[https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=5163 Portugal vs Hungary 3 : 3]

He was a member of the Hungarian soccer team at the 1924 Summer Olympics, where he played two matches.{{FIFA player|292693}}; accessed 24 March 2018.

Coach

After the break of his active football career, he continued his work in sports as a coach. During 1932, he was a member of a four-member commission in the role of coach of the Norwegian national team for four games.[https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=5649 Norway vs Estonia][https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=5644 Norway vs Finland][https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=5598 Sweden vs Norway][https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=15171 Norway vs Denmark ]

Braun later coached ŠK Slovan Bratislava from 1935-38.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

Death in Nazi camp

Drafted as a Jew into forced labour in support of the Hungarian Army in the Eastern Front in World War II, Braun was killed in 1943 in a Nazi forced labor camp in Ukraine.