Nicodemas Čerekas

Nicodemas Čerekas
Nicodemas Čerekas kneeling 1st from left (1926)
Personnel
birthday	April 12, 1905
place of birth	Kaunas ,  Russian Empire
date of death	April 22, 1965
Place of death	Stamford ,  CT , United States
position	stopper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1924-1936	LFLS Kaunas
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1926-1933	Lithuania	at least 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Nikodemas Čerekas (born March 30, ^jul. / 12. April  1905 ^greg. In Kaunas , † 22 April 1965 in Stamford ) was a Lithuanian football players and basketball referee .

Career and life

From 1926, Čerekas studied law and economics at the Vytautas Magnus University in his hometown Kaunas . He later worked in the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania .

In his football career, Čerekas played for the LFLS Kaunas from 1924 to 1936 . With the club he won the championship title in Lithuania in 1927 and 1932 .

Between 1926 and 1933 he ran at least four times for the Lithuanian national soccer team . He took part in the Baltic Cup three times .

At the European basketball championship in 1939 Čerekas was active as a referee.

In 1944 he fled to Germany. In Rosenheim he was chairman of a Lithuanian community from 1945 to 1949. In addition, he was briefly secretary in exile of the Gymnastics and Sports Committee of Lithuania. In 1949 he moved to Stamford on the east coast of the United States .

successes

With the LFLS Kaunas:

• Lithuanian champion : 1927 , 1932

Web links

• Nikodemas Čerekas in the database of the Lithuanian Football Association (Lithuanian)
• Nikodemas Čerekas in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)