Walter Rositzky

Walter Rositzky (16 March 1889 - 26 March 1953) was a German footballer who played as a midfielder or forward. He played for FC Barcelona and Real Madrid.[1]

Walter Rositzky
Personal information
Full name Walter Cäsar Max Rositzky
Date of birth (1889-03-16)16 March 1889
Place of birth Hamburg, Germany
Date of death 26 May 1953(1953-05-26) (aged 64)
Place of death Hamburg, Germany
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Ottensen 07
1911–1912 FC Barcelona B 22 (4)
1912–1913 Barcelona B 23 (0)
1913–1914 Real Madrid 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Professional career

He was born was born, Hamburg, Germany.[2] "Rositzky", as it appears in his German military record Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, 456 E Nr. 9851, was a midfielder and right winger.[1] He played for FC Barcelona in from 1911 to 1913 before leaving it to play for Real Madrid.

Rositzky was the fifth player in history who left the Catalans for Madrid. In the shirt of the Blaugrana he played 55 games and scored 5 goals, won the club championship of Catalonia, and won twice the King's Cup and the Pyrenees Cup. He remained in Madrid until 1915, when the outbreak of World War I suspended his career.[1] He left Spain, was drafted into the German army and never returned to the Iberian Peninsula, locating himself in his native town of Hamburg. After 1923 there are no further news about his life. It is believed that he probably died during one of the battles for independence; the details of his death are unknown.[1]

International affiliation

During the time in which he played professionally, he was commonly misspelled as "Rozitsky" and referred to be born in Poland, despite it was not a sovereign nation. At the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in the gallery of all the Real Madrid players, he was also inscribed as a Polonia player (meaning Polish). Not the first Pole playing for the club, but the first German,[1] took pride at being placed next to Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, with whom he performed on the same team.

References
  1. "Walter Rositzky. El primer polaco del fútbol español no era polaco. (Walter Rositzky. The first Polish of Spanish football was not Polish.)" (in Spanish). CIHEFE - Cuadernos de Fútbol (Center for research on history and statistics of Spanish football - IFFHS Associated). 1 March 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. "Walter Rositzky – "Polak" z Realu i Barcelony" (in Polish). RealMadryt.pl. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.


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