Jānis Lidmanis
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Born | 18 January 1910 Riga, Russian Empire | |||||||||||
Died | 29 November 1986 (aged 76) Melbourne, Australia | |||||||||||
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Jānis Lidmanis (18 January 1910 – 29 November 1986) was a Latvian footballer and basketballer.
Career
[edit]In the 1930s he was the captain of Latvia national football team for which he made 55 appearances (second result in the pre-war Latvian team) and scored 2 goals.[1]
Lidmanis played of the football club Rīgas FK, the top Riga club of that era, and together with Ēriks Pētersons and Sergejs Maģers he made up the center midfield in the national team. One of his strengths was in the hands (he also played basketball and even played for Latvia in EuroBasket 1935), he also performed corner-kicks.
In 1944 Lidmanis together with his family immigrated to Germany and in 1949 to Australia. He died in Melbourne, Australia on 29 November 1986.
References
[edit]- ^ Mamrud, Roberto (16 December 2010). "Latvia – Record International Players". Rec.Sport. Soccer Statistics Foundation.
Categories:
- Latvian men's footballers
- Latvian men's basketball players
- Latvia men's international footballers
- 1910 births
- 1986 deaths
- FIBA EuroBasket–winning players
- Footballers from Riga
- Men's association football midfielders
- Latvian World War II refugees
- Basketball players from Riga
- Latvian emigrants to Australia
- Latvian basketball biography stubs
- Latvian football biography stubs