Jānis Lidmanis
- Birth Date:
- 18.01.1910
- Death date:
- 29.11.1986
- Extra names:
- Jānis Lidmanis, Я́нис Ли́дманис
- Categories:
- Basketball player, Football player
- Nationality:
- latvian
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Jānis Lidmanis (1910–1986) was a Latvian footballer and basketballer. In 1930s he was the captain of Latvia national football team for which he made 55 appearances (second result in the pre-war Latvian team) and scored 2 goals.
Lidmanis played of the football club Rīgas FK, the top Riga club of that era, and together with Ēriks Pētersons and Sergejs Maģers he made up the center midfield in the national team. One of his strengths was in the hands (he also played basketball and even played for Latvia in EuroBasket 1935), he also performed corner-kicks.
He died in Australia.
Source: wikipedia.org
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| Relation name | Relation type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Roberts Plūme | Idea mate | |
| 2 |  | Valdemārs Baumanis | Idea mate | |
| 3 |  | Rihards Dekšenieks | Idea mate | |
| 4 |  | Edgars Rūja | Idea mate |
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