Pauls Sokolovs

Pauls Sokolovs (1902 - ?) was a Latvian footballer who competed for Latvia national football team at the 1924 Summer Olympics [ [http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/so/pauls-sokolovs-1.html Pauls Sokolovs Biography and Statistics] ] .

Biography

Sokolovs started playing football with JKS Riga in the early years after World War I. In 1923 he joined the newly-founded RFK for which he played until the end of his football career. Over the years from 1923 to 1928 Sokolovs won three Latvian Higher League titles and became a two-time winner of the Riga Football Cup. Sokolovs played 8 international matches for Latvia national football team from 1923 to 1925 [ [http://www.periodika.lv/Default/Skins/LatviaArchL/Client.asp?Skin=LatviaArchL&enter=true&AW=1221639282884&AppName=2 List of Latvia national football team caps] ] , including a participation at the 1924 Summer Olympics [ [http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text/html&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP/1936/01/02&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00100&PageLabel=1 Latvia footballers to participate at the Berlin Olympic games?] ] . Sokolovs also played ice hockey and played several matches for Latvia national ice hockey team.

Honours

*Latvian Higher League: 1924, 1925, 1926 (RFK)
*Riga Football Cup: 1924, 1925 (RFK)

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