Place of birth Riga, Latvia Years Team Role Footballer | Place of death Kiev, Ukraine Name Leonids Ostrovskis | |
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Full name Leonids Alfonsovich Ostrovskis Date of birth (1936-01-17)17 January 1936 Date of death 17 April 2001(2001-04-17) (aged 65) Died April 17, 2001, Kiev, Ukraine | ||
Leonīds Ostrovskis (Russian: Леонид Альфонсович Островский, Ukrainian: Леонід Альфонсович Островський, Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovskiy; 17 January 1936 in Riga – 17 April 2001 in Kiev) was a Soviet Latvian football player and manager. He was Jewish. [1]
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International career
Ostrovskis made his debut for the national team on 18 November 1961 in a friendly against Argentina (he was selected for the 1958 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play in any games at the tournament).
He played in two World Cups: 1962 and 1966. He was the only Latvian footballer for the Soviet Union in the World Cups.
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