Herzl Fritzner ( he, הרצל פריצנר) was an Israeli footballer and manager, who played for

Maccabi Rehovot Maccabi Rehovot F.C. ( he, מכבי רחובות) is an Israeli football club based in Rehovot. The club was a founding member of the Israeli League in 1949 and competed in the top division during the 1950s, but today plays in Liga Gimel, the f ...

, Maccabi Tel Aviv,

Hapoel Tel Aviv Hapoel Tel Aviv ( he, הפועל תל אביב) is a sports club in Israel, founded in the 1920s, and part of the Hapoel association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, suc ...

and

Hapoel Ramat Gan Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim F.C. ( he, מועדון כדורגל הפועל רמת-גן גבעתיים, ''Moadon Kaduregel Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim'') is an Israeli football club from Ramat Gan and Givatayim. They currently play in Liga Leumit, ...

and coached Maccabi Ramat Amidar and

Biography

Fritzner was born in

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in 1919 and moved with his family to the Netherlands when he was 5. As a teenager, Fritzner was sent to a boarding school in Düsseldorf, where he played for the local Maccabi club. In 1935, Fritzner immigrated to

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on his own, with the Youth Aliyah organization and settled at

Kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

Na'an. While at the Kibbutz, Fritzner represented the local Hapoel club in athletics, with his main event being the

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, in which he set a Hapoel junior record of 11.39 m in 1937. In 1938, Fritzner moved to

Rehovot Rehovot ( he, רְחוֹבוֹת ''Rəḥōvōt'', ar, رحوڤوت ''Reḥūfūt'') is a city in the Central District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of . Etymology Israel Belkind, founder of the Bilu movement, ...

, where he worked in the

Jewish Settlement Police The Jewish Settlement Police (JSP) ( he, משטרת היישובים העבריים, ''Mishteret Ha-Yishuvim Ha-Ivri'yim'') were a division of the Notrim established in Mandatory Palestine in 1936, during the 1936-39 Arab revolt.Levenberg, 1993, ...

and joined the local Maccabi club. While continuing to compete in Athletics, excelling in shot put and javelin throw, Fritzner started playing football with

in Liga Bet. As a member of the settlement police, Fritzner was drafted into the regional police football team, Sarona Police, which competed and won the Settlement Police Cup. The police team also competed, along with other Maccabi clubs, in the Maccabi Ersatz League, and as the police team was disbanded, Fritzner joined Maccabi Tel Aviv. Fritzner stayed at Maccabi Tel Aviv until 1946, winning one championship and two

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, scoring a goal in the

1941 Palestine Cup The 1941 Palestine Cup ( he, הגביע הארץ-ישראלי, ''HaGavia HaEretz-Israeli'') was the twelfth season of Israeli Football Association's nationwide football cup competition. The defending holders were Beitar Tel Aviv. The competition ...

final. In 1946, Fritzner moved to

for one season, after which he transferred to

, where he stayed until 1953. Fritzner played until his retirement with

, while also coaching Ramat Gan club Maccabi Ramat Amidar. During the 1959–60 season, Fritzner was appointed as head coach for

, but didn't manage to save the club from relegation. Fritzner stayed with the club in its first season in Liga Alef, after which he was replaced by

Moshe Varon Moshe Varon ( he, משה וארון; 3 January 1926 – 18 December 2007) was an Israeli football player and manager. Honours As a player-manager * Israeli Premier League: 1955 References 1926 births 2007 deaths Jewish Israeli sportsp ...

Varon Returns to Hapoel R.G.
Ma'ariv, 1 March 1961, Historical Jewish Press and retired from football altogether.

Honours

* League Championships (1): ** 1939–40 *

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(2): **

1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

External links

Herzl Fritzner
Hapoel Wiki

References

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