Sol Eisner
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Place of birth | Germany | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
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United States |
Sol Eisner is an American former soccer player who played as a forward. Eisner played in the American Soccer League, and on the United States men's national soccer team.
Biography
Eisner was born in Germany, and is Jewish. He had four brothers who also played soccer.
Eisner was a star with the New York Americans most seasons from 1937 to 1951, during which time the team was in the American Soccer League. In 1946–47 he scored 14 of the team's 38 goals for the season. He played 60 games for the team in his career, started 58 of them, and scored 79 goals.
By July 1942 he was in the US military where he lost his left eye during army maneuvers. He played for the American Soccer League All Stars in 1947, nearly scoring in a 2–0 loss to Hapoel at Yankee Stadium in front of more than 40,000 fans.
He played an international game for the United States national team, in 1948 against the Israel, and played for the United States men's national soccer team in a tour of Israel in 1951.
Eisner would later play for New York's Maccabi F.C. in the mid-1950s.
- Living people
- American soccer players
- German footballers
- Jewish footballers
- German emigrants to the United States
- Jewish German sportspeople
- American people of German-Jewish descent
- United States men's international soccer players
- New York Americans (soccer) (1933–1956) players
- Association football forwards
- German expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate soccer players in the United States
- German expatriate footballers
- United States Army personnel of World War II
- American disabled sportspeople
- American soccer biography stubs