Leonid Mykolayovych Shmuts ( uk, Леонід Миколайович Шмуц, russian: Леонид Николаевич Шмуц; born October 8, 1948) is a retired
Ukrainian
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and
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
football player.
Honours
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Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991.
The professional top level ...
winner: 1970.
International career
Shmuts made his debut for
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
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
An own goal, also called a self goal, is where a player performs actions that result in them or their team scoring a goal on themselves, often resulting in a point for the opposing team, such as when a football player kicks a ball into their own ...
that he scored in the Soviet league game against
FC Ararat Yerevan
Football Club Ararat Yerevan ( hy, Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Արարատ Երևան), commonly known as Ararat Yerevan, is an Armenian football club based in Yerevan that plays in the Armenian Premier League.
Since 1999, the club i ...
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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1948 births
Living people
People from Nikopol, Ukraine
Ukrainian men's footballers
Soviet men's footballers
Soviet Union men's international footballers
PFC CSKA Moscow players
SKA Kiev players
Soviet Top League players
1970 FIFA World Cup players
Men's association football goalkeepers
Footballers from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol players
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