John Österholm (footballer)
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 14 June 1896 | ||
Place of birth | Ingå, Grand Duchy of Finland | ||
Date of death | 19 October 1923 | (aged 27)||
Place of death | Hamina, Finland | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
HIFK | – | (–) | |
International career | |||
1920–1922 | Finland | 4 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
John Emil Österholm (14 June 1896 – 19 October 1923) was a Finnish footballer and military pilot. Österholm played for HIFK Helsinki and earned four caps for the Finland national football team. Österholm scored his only international goal against Estonia in October 1920.[1]
In the 1918 Finnish Civil War, Österholm fought for the White Guards. He took part on the capture of the icebreaker Volynets and the Battle of Helsinki. After the war, Österholm went to a military career and became a pilot in 1923. He died in October 1923 as the Finnish Air Force IVL A.22 Hansa floatplane crashed into the Gulf of Finland outside Hamina.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "John Österholm". European National Football Teams Matches Database. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ "John Österholm †", Aero (in Swedish), no. 10, p. 3, October 1923, retrieved 10 July 2022
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- 1896 births
- 1923 deaths
- Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in Finland
- People from Ingå
- Sportspeople from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
- Finnish men's footballers
- Finland men's international footballers
- HIFK Fotboll players
- Men's association football midfielders
- People of the Finnish Civil War (White side)
- Finnish military aviators
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1923
- Finnish football biography stubs