Pauls Sokolovs Explained

Pauls Sokolovs
Birth Date:17 July 1902
Birth Place:Riga, Russian Empire
Position:Midfielder
Years1:1923-1925
Clubs1:Torpedo Rīga
Clubs2:JKS Riga
Clubs3:Rīgas FK
Nationalyears1:1923-1925
Nationalteam1:Latvia
Nationalcaps1:8
Nationalgoals1:0

Pauls Sokolovs (17 July 1902  - 20 April 1971)[1] was a Latvian footballer who competed for Latvia national football team at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[2] [3]

Sokolovs started playing football with JKS Riga in the early years after World War I, then joined the newly founded RFK in 1923, where he played until the end of his football career. He won three Latvian Higher League titles and became a two-time winner of the Riga Football Cup between 1923 and 1928 and played 8 international matches for the Latvian national football team from 1923 to 1925,[4] including a participation at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[5] Sokolovs also played ice hockey, representing the Latvia national ice hockey team in several matches.

Honours

1924, 1925, 1926 (RFK)

1924, 1925 (RFK)

Notes and References

  1. http://www.periodika.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html?lang=fr#panel:pp|issue:/p_003_xala1971n1098|article:DIVL282|query:Pauls%20Sokolovs|issueType:P Pauls Sokolovs' obituary
  2. Web site: Pauls Sokolovs Biography and Statistics . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418103446/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/so/pauls-sokolovs-1.html . dead . 2020-04-18 . Sports-reference.com .
  3. Web site: Pauls Sokolovs . Olympedia . 22 August 2021.
  4. Web site: List of Latvia national football team caps. Periodika.lv.
  5. Web site: Latvijas futbolisti piedalījās Berlines olimpiade?. Latvia footballers to participate at the Berlin Olympic games?. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111004134058/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1936%2F01%2F02&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00100&PageLabel=1. 2011-10-04. lv.