Karl Braunsteiner

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| name = Karl Braunsteiner

| image = Braunsteiner-Brandstätter.jpg

| caption = Karl Braunsteiner and Josef Brandstätter

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|10|27|df=y}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1916|4|19|1891|10|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Tashkent, Uzbekistan

| position = defender

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| clubs1 = Wiener SC

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| nationalteam1 = Austria

| nationalcaps1 = 8

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Karl Braunsteiner (27 October 1891 – 19 April 1916) was an Austrian football (soccer) player.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/24036 |title=Karl Braunsteiner |work=Olympedia |access-date=26 May 2021}}

Club career

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.{{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 |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference}}

International career

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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121022125419/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=293504/index.html Record at FIFA Tournaments] - FIFA{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/karl-braunsteiner-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418070222/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/karl-braunsteiner-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Karl Braunsteiner |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference}}

For the Austria national football team he played 8 games.