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{{short description|Ukrainian and Soviet footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Leonid Shmuts
| fullname = Leonid Mykolayovych Shmuts
| image = Leonid Shmuts.jpg
| caption = Shmuts in 1970
| height = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|10|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Nikopol, Ukraine|Nikopol]], [[USSR]]
| position = [[Goalkeeper (association football)|Goalkeeper]]
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = [[FC Trubnyk Nikopol|Trubnyk Nikopol]] 
| years1 = 1965–1966
| years2 = 1967–1976 
| years3 = 1976–1979
| clubs1 = [[FC Trubnyk Nikopol|Trubnyk Nikopol]] 
| clubs2 = [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]] 
| clubs3 = [[FC CSKA Kyiv|SKA Kiev]] 
| caps1 = 22  | goals1 = 0
| caps2 = 54  | goals2 = 0
| caps3 = 125 | goals3 = 0
| nationalyears1 = 1971
| nationalteam1 = [[Soviet Union national football team|USSR]]
| nationalcaps1 = 2 
| nationalgoals1 = 0
}}

'''Leonid Mykolayovych Shmuts''' ({{langx|uk|Леонід Миколайович Шмуц}}, {{langx|ru|Леонид Николаевич Шмуц}}; born October 8, 1948) is a retired [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] football player.

==Honours==
* [[Soviet Top League]] winner: 1970.

==International career==
Shmuts made his debut for [[Soviet Union national football team|USSR]] 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]] that he scored in the Soviet league game against [[FC Ararat Yerevan]] 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 [[Association football pitch|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.

==External links==
* {{in lang|ru}} [http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/shmuts.html Profile]
* {{FootballFacts.ru|48043}}

{{USSR Squad 1970 World Cup}}

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[[Category:1948 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Footballers from Nikopol, Ukraine]]
[[Category:Ukrainian men's footballers]]
[[Category:Soviet men's footballers]]
[[Category:Soviet Union men's international footballers]]
[[Category:PFC CSKA Moscow players]]
[[Category:SKA Kiev players]]
[[Category:Soviet Top League players]]
[[Category:1970 FIFA World Cup players]]
[[Category:Men's association football goalkeepers]]
[[Category:FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol players]]
[[Category:20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen]]


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