Fricis Laumanis

Infobox Football biography
playername= Fricis Laumanis
dateofbirth = birth date|1910|06|13
cityofbirth = Liepāja
countryofbirth = Russian Empire
dateofdeath = death date and age|1981|12|6|1910|06|13
cityofdeath = New Jersey
countryofdeath = USA
position = Forward
youthclubs = Olimpija Liepāja
youthyears = 1925-1927
years = 1927-1931
1931-1932
1933-1940
1941
?-1952
1953-?
clubs = Olimpija Liepāja
ASK Liepāja
Olimpija Liepāja
Dinamo Liepāja
Philadelphia Latvian sports club
United German Hungarian Club
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 1930–1939
nationalteam = Latvia
nationalcaps(goals) = 018 (0)

Fricis Laumanis (June 13, 1910 in Liepāja - December 6, 1981 in New Jersey) was a Latvian football defender the most capped footballer from Liepāja for the Latvia national football team before World War II next to Rūdolfs Kronlaks and Harijs Lazdiņš [ [http://www.kurzemes-vards.lv/?doc=24685 Biography of Harijs Lazdiņš] ] .

Biography

Since his mid-teens Laumanis played with the youth squad of Olimpija Liepāja and in 1927 he first played for the senior team in a year when Olimpija won its first Latvian Higher League title, pushing out of the squad the club veteran Harijs Pikols [ [http://www.kurzemes-vards.lv/print.php?doc=45299 Harijs Pikols biography] ] . Over many years Laumanis was the most reliable defender in the Olimpija squad alongside Kārlis Tīls. In the early 1930s he played for two seasons with ASK Liepāja which he helped to earn promotion to Virsliga but in 1934 he returned to Olimpija and played with the side until it was disbanded in 1940. Playing with Olimpija Laumanis won seven Latvian league titles and became a three time winner of the Riga Football Cup.

Laumanis played 18 international matches for Latvia between 1930 and 1939.

In 1941 he played with Dinamo Liepāja. After World War II Laumanis ended up in Germany which he left in 1949 for USA.

In America Laumanis continued playing football with amateur clubs winning the Pennsylvania state amateur football league title in 1952 playing with Philadelphia Latvian immigrants sports club, he also played with the United German Hungarian Club.

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