Sol Eisner
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Sol Eisner is an American former soccer player who played as a forward.{{Cite web|url=https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16347coll4/id/28/|title=Were Hosts to New York Americans|page=27|date=May 29, 1951|website=Bermuda Sports}} Eisner played in the American Soccer League, and on the United States men's national soccer team.
Biography
Eisner was born in Germany, and is Jewish.{{Cite web|url=https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1942.07.10.001/13|title=10 Athletes in Service of U.S.|date=July 10, 1942|website=The Detroit Jewish News|page=13}} He had four brothers who also played soccer.{{cite book |author1=Harold U. Ribalow |author1-link=Harold U. Ribalow |title=The Jew in American Sports |date=1966 |publisher=Bloch Publishing Company |location=New York |pages=335 |edition=3rd Revised |url=https://archive.org/search.php?query=external-identifier%3A%22urn%3Aoclc%3Arecord%3A1035899989%22 |access-date=9 May 2021 |oclc=1035899989 |id={{Internet Archive |id=jewinamericanspo00riba |title=The Jew in American Sports |page=315}} }}
Eisner was a star with the New York Americans most seasons from 1937 to 1951, during which time the team was in the American Soccer League.{{cite news |title=Brooks, Amerks Play to 3-3 Tie |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77314390/ |access-date=8 May 2021 |work=Daily News |date=6 June 1938 |location=New York |page=40 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32704070/bert-patenaude-ny-americans-vs-philly/|title=Bert Patenaude, NY Americans vs Philly Passons, 1-2.|date=November 11, 1940|page=24|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12227688/the-philadelphia-inquirer/|title=N.Y. Americans Beat Nationals |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=January 28, 1946|page=21}}{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/11/04/113111844.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|page=27|title=SOCCER AMERICANS GAIN 4-1 TRIUMPH; Beat Baltimore Americans in League Game--Eisner and Brown Aces of Attack |website=The New York Times|date=November 4, 1940}}{{Cite web|url=http://soccerstats.us/bios/sol-eisner/|title=Sol Eisner |website=soccerstats.us}}{{Cite web|url=https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/BermudaNP02/id/147801|title=New York Americans Win First Game in Bermuda 7-3 Against West Rangers|page=9|date=March 19, 1951|website=The Royal Gazette}} In 1946–47 he scored 14 of the team's 38 goals for the season.{{Cite web|url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorsoccer/stats/t-AS2NYA/y-1946|title=1946 New York Americans Division II and III soccer Statistics on StatsCrew.com|website=statscrew.com}} He played 60 games for the team in his career, started 58 of them, and scored 79 goals.{{Cite web|url=http://soccerstats.us/teams/new-york-americans/stats/|title=New York Americans All-time Stats |website=SoccerStats.us}}
By July 1942 he was in the US military where he lost his left eye during army maneuvers.{{cite news |last1=Graham |first1=Bill |title=Sports Shorts - Soccer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77311159/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/ |access-date=8 May 2021 |work=Brooklyn Eagle |date=December 2, 1943 |page=14 |quote=Sol Eisner of New York Americans is in a Tennessee hospital as a result of a bomb fragment striking the pupil of his left eye during army maneuvers |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |last1=Graham |first1=Bill |title=Soccer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77311409/ |access-date=8 May 2021 |work=Brooklyn Eagle |date=13 January 1953 |page=12 |quote=Sol Eisner of the New York Americans, who lost an eye during army maneuvers and later overstayed the American League tour of Israel and got a leg injury when engaging in an exhibition game there, is now directing the activities of the Maccabi S.C. juniors |via=Newspapers.com}} He played for the American Soccer League All Stars in 1947, nearly scoring in a 2–0 loss to Hapoel at Yankee Stadium in front of more than 40,000 fans.{{Cite web|url=http://soccerstats.us/games/14120/|date=May 4, 1947|title= American Soccer League All-Stars 2 - 0 Hapoel Tel Aviv |website=soccerstats.us}}{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/445053321/ |last=Turkin |first=Hy |title=Palestine's Hapoel trips AL Stars, 2–0, in Mud |page=39 |newspaper=Daily News |location=New York |quote=A U.S. record total of 61,359 tickets were sold for the contest, with 53,177 attending |via=Newspapers.com}}
He played an unofficial international game for the United States national team, in 1948 against Israel, and played for the American Soccer League All-Stars in a tour of Israel in 1951.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/usnt-results/usmnt-results/1255-2/|title=USMNT Results: 1885-1950|date=August 5, 2015|website=ussoccerhistory.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.11v11.com/players/sol-eisner-184613/|title=Sol Eisner|website=11v11.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://soccerhistoryusa.org/ASHA/year/1951.html|title=The Year in American Soccer - 1951|website=soccerhistoryusa.org}}
Eisner would later play for New York's Maccabi F.C. in the mid-1950s.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/553748597/ |title=Dover hosts Maccabees |date=16 April 1955 |newspaper=The Morning Call |location=Paterson, New Jersey| page=8 |quote="Led by Sol Eisner who represented the U. S. in several International Soccer games ...}}
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Category:American people of German-Jewish descent
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Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:New York Americans (soccer) (1933–1956) players
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Category:German expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Category:Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Category:United States Army personnel of World War II
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