Adam Obrubański, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adam Obrubański

Polish association football player and manager

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1892

Place of Birth: Kopychyntsi, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1940

Profession: association football manager, association football referee, association football player, journalist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Adam Obrubanski (18 December 1892, Kopychyntsi - 1940) was a Polish soccer player and soccer official, also a graduate of Kraków’s renowned Jagiellonian University.
Born in 1892, he was a student at the Faculty of Philosophy and later at the Faculty of Law.
In the years 1914-1922 he served in the Austrian and later the Polish Army.
Then, he worked as a reporter for Kraków’s Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny daily.
In 1932 he took his PhD in law at Jagiellonian University.
After retiring from an active soccer career (Obrubanski represented Wisla Kraków and LKS Lódz), became an influential official of the Polish Football Association and manager of the Polish National Team as well as a referee.
He was the first Pole to achieve the status of an international soccer referee.
Adam Obrubanski officiated in the Olympic Football Tournament in 1924.Obrubanski died some time in early spring of 1940, aged 47, murdered by the Soviets in the Katyn Massacre.