Ceslav Stanciks ( Latvian. Česlavs Stančiks ; April 26 [1] 1896, Riga -?) - Latvian footballer playing in the midfield position, player of the Latvian national team . Member of the 1924 Olympic Games .
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| Born | April 26, 1896 (123 years old) Riga , Russian Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citizenship |  Russian empire  Latvia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | midfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club career
He started playing football at the age of 16, in 1912 at the Amateris club in Riga. The next two years he spent in the Riga team "Union". In 1915, when the front of World War I approached Riga, Stanchik evacuated to Moscow , where he played for the Sokolniki club, returned to his homeland after the war and played for his former Union club for some time.
In 1921, Stanczyk joined the Kaiserwald (Keysarmes) team, with whom he won the first official Latvian championship in 1922 and won the second title the following year. At the end of the 1925 season, Kaiserwald was disbanded and Stanczyk moved to Riga's RFK, with which he won the 1926 Latvian Championship and became the two-time winner of the Riga Cup. From 1928 to 1932, the footballer played for Vanderer, in one of the seasons he missed the chance to win another league title, as Vanderer lost in the gold match to ASK club. The last club of Stanczyk became in 1936 LSS, who played a level lower in the championship of the city of Riga.
Team Career
Cheslav Stanczyk took part in the first official match in the history of the Latvian national team - September 24, 1922 in Riga against Estonia (1: 1) [2] . In 1924, he was included in the national team for participation in the Olympic Games and took part in the only match of the national team in this tournament, lost 0: 7 in France .
Until 1927, Stanczyk was the main player in the Latvian national team, and in 7 matches he entered the field as a captain. On August 16, 1924, he scored his first goal for the national team against the Lithuanians. [3] In the last years of his career, he was rarely called up for the team and in four years (1928-1931) he took part in only three matches, the last was the game against Estonia on September 27, 1931.
In total, the Latvian national team Stanczyk played 20 matches and scored 2 goals.
After Football
In 1939 he moved to Germany under the program of resettlement of ethnic Germans from the Baltic republics. The further fate is unknown.
Achievements
- Champion of Latvia : 1922, 1923, 1926
Notes
- ↑ according to other sources, August 26
- ↑ MATCH: 09.24.1922 Latvia v Estonia 1: 1 (English) .
- ↑ MATCH: 08.16.1924 Lithuania v Latvia 2: 4 (English) .
Links
- Profile of eu-football.info
- Cheslav Stanchik - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Information on the website of the Latvian Olympic Committee