Leonas Juozapaitis

Leonas Juozapaitis

Leonas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian football player at the Olympics (1924)
Personal information
Date of birth	(1901-01-18)18 January 1901
Place of birth	Vilnius, Russian Empire
Date of death	13 August 1980(1980-08-13) (aged 79)
Place of death	Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR
Position(s)	Midfield
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
19??–19??	LFLS Kaunas
National team
1924–1926	Lithuania	4	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Leonas Juozapaitis (18 January 1901 – 13 August 1980) was a Lithuanian footballer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.^[1][2]

Juozapaitis was a midfielder for LFLS Kaunas when he got called up to represent Lithuania in their first ever international in 1923 against Estonia, the next year he played at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, where they lost in the first round against Switzerland 0-9, his next two international matches also ended in defeat.^[3]

He was also a keen athlete and was the Lithuanian 2 km champion in 1922 and in the same year he played in the first Lithuanian basketball match.^[4]

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