Mieczysław Józef Batsch a.k.a. Bacz (1 January 1900 – 27 September 1977) was a Polish

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who played as a

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. He represented

Pogoń Lwów LKS Pogoń Lwów is a former Polish professional sports club which was located in Lwów, Lwów Voivodeship (now Lviv Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the L ...

, Oldboye Lwów and the Poland national team. Batsch was a graduate of the mechanical engineering program of Lwów's

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(Politechnika Lwowska). In the 1920s, while he was on the team, Pogoń won multiple national champions (1922, 1923, 1925, 1926). Together with

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and Józef Garbień, he scored several goals. His career lasted from 1916 to 1929, after which he occasionally played on the team Oldboye Lwów, which consisted of experienced players from Lwów. On the national team he played in 11 games, scoring 1 goal. Batsch was a member of the side that participated in the

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Honours

Pogoń Lwów * Polish Football Championship:

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References

1900 births 1977 deaths Footballers from Lviv Sportspeople from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Polish Austro-Hungarians Lviv Polytechnic alumni Men's association football forwards Polish men's footballers Poland men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Poland Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Pogoń Lwów players Ekstraklasa players 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-footy-forward-1900s-stub