Léon Letsch (born 23 May 1927) is a Luxembourgish former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a

striker Striker or The Strikers may refer to: People *A participant in a strike action *A participant in a hunger strike *Blacksmith's striker, a type of blacksmith's assistant *Striker's Independent Society, the oldest mystic krewe in America People wi ...

. He was a member of the

Luxembourg national football team The Luxembourg national football team (nicknamed the ''Red Lions''; lb, Lëtzebuergesch Foussballnationalequipe, french: Équipe du Luxembourg de football, german: Luxemburgische Fußballnationalmannschaft) is the national football team of Luxe ...

from 1947 to 1961. He also played for Luxembourg at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

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Léon Letsch's profile at Sports Reference.comArticle on Léon Letsch's 90th birthday
1927 births Living people People from Mamer Association football forwards Luxembourgian footballers Luxembourgian expatriate footballers Luxembourg international footballers CA Spora Luxembourg players Olympic footballers of Luxembourg CO Roubaix-Tourcoing players Ligue 1 players Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Expatriate footballers in France Luxembourgian expatriate sportspeople in France {{Luxembourg-footy-bio-stub