Leonid Shmuts

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

Leonid Shmuts
Shmuts in 1970
Personal information
Full name Leonid Mykolayovych Shmuts
Date of birth (1948-10-08) 8 October 1948
Place of birth Nikopol, USSR
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Trubnyk Nikopol
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965–1966 Trubnyk Nikopol 22 (0)
1967–1976 CSKA Moscow 54 (0)
1976–1979 SKA Kiev 125 (0)
International career
1971 USSR 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Honours

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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