Leonid Shmuts Explained

Leonid Shmuts
Fullname:Leonid Mykolayovych Shmuts
Birth Date:8 October 1948
Birth Place:Nikopol, USSR
Position:Goalkeeper
Years1:1965–1966
Years2:1967–1976
Years3:1976–1979
Caps1:22
Goals1:0
Caps2:54
Goals2:0
Caps3:125
Goals3:0
Nationalyears1:1971
Nationalteam1:USSR
Nationalcaps1:2
Nationalgoals1:0

Leonid Mykolayovych Shmuts (Ukrainian: Леонід Миколайович Шмуц, Russian: Леонид Николаевич Шмуц; born October 8, 1948) is a retired Ukrainian and Soviet football player.

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International career

Shmuts made his debut for USSR on February 19, 1971, in a friendly against Mexico national football team. He was selected for the 1970 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play in any games at the tournament.

Own goal

Shmuts is well known for the own goal that he scored in the Soviet league game against FC Ararat Yerevan on April 17, 1971. Shumts was going to throw the ball to his teammate and had already taken his hand with the ball back, but suddenly noticed that an Ararat player could intercept the ball and stopped the movement. The ball left his hand and crossed the goal line. That was the only goal in the game. This mistake was a heavy blow for the goalkeeper who never returned to his previous level of playing and never played again for the national team.

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