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Union Riga
Union Riga was a football club established in Riga in 1907. It was the winner of the Riga football league in 1910. In the period of independence of Latvia between the World wars Union played in the Latvian Higher League for several years. Being essentially a sports club of Baltic Germans, Union was disestablished in 1939 with the repatriation of Baltic Germans. History The Riga cycling club Union was founded in 1893. A football section of the club was opened in 1907 – shortly after British FC Riga, thus Union was the second football club to be formed on the territory of Latvia. In the first years of its existence there was a tense rivalry between Union and BFC – the former being a mostly German side and the latter – a club for which played entirely Britons. In 1910 Union was one of the three sides to play in the newly founded Riga football league – alongside BFC and Ķeizarmežs (a second German side). BFC won the tournament however the British team w ...
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ...
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Vladimirs Bērziņš
Vladimirs Bērziņš (born 16 December 1905, date of death unknown) was a Latvian football midfielder and manager, one of the most capped footballers in pre-war Latvia. Biography Bērziņš began playing football with the mostly German sports club Union Riga in 1925. He was selected to play for the Latvia national football team for 26 August 1925 friendly match against Estonia, but later he was removed from the list of selected players. At the end of the 1926 football season Bērziņš left Union for the three-time champion of Latvia RFK. For this side he played for the rest of his football career. With RFK he won the Latvian Higher League title four times – in 1930, 1931, 1934 and 1935. In the second half of the 1930s Bērziņš played very little with RFK and retired from playing in 1939. He did however return to RFK in 1943. In total Bērziņš played 40 international matches for Latvia from 1927 to 1936, being the fourth most capped Latvian football international behind Ēr ...
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Football Clubs In Riga
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, Kick (football), kicking a Football (ball), ball to score a Goal (sport), goal. Unqualified, Football (word), the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in North America and Australia); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby union and rugby league; and Gaelic football. These various forms of football share to varying extent common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to English public school football games, the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th century. The expansion and cultur ...
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Defunct Football Clubs In Latvia
Defunct (no longer in use or active) may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service, or practice is no longer maintained or required even though it may still be in good working order. It usually happens when something that is more efficient or less risky r ...
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Association Football Clubs Disestablished In 1939
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Association Football Clubs Established In 1907
Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose, usually as volunteers Association in various fields of study *Association (archaeology), the close relationship between objects or contexts. *Association (astronomy), combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures * Association (chemistry) *Association (ecology), a type of ecological community *Genetic association, when one or more genotypes within a population co-occur * Association (object-oriented programming), defines a relationship between classes of objects *Association (psychology), a connection between two or more concepts in the mind or imagination *Association (statistics), a statistical relationship between two variables *File association, associates a file with a ...
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Alfrēds Verners
Alfrēds Verners (1912 – 31 December 1973) was a Latvian footballer and ice hockey player who played ten matches for Latvia national football team in the 1920s. Biography Verners began playing both football and ice hockey with Union Riga (as it was a common practice among sportspeople in Latvia before World War II to compete in different sports in summer and winter). Verners got a wider popularity as in 1930 Union returned to the Latvian Higher League and unexpectedly earned a respectable fourth-place finish, and won the bronze medals just a year later. In ice hockey Union was an even stronger side, winning the first two Latvian league tournaments, thus by 1933 Verners was a two-time champion of Latvia in ice hockey and a one time bronze medallist in football. On 30 June 1931, Verners made his international début for Latvia national football team scoring a goal and giving passes to two goals to Ēriks Pētersons. In total Verners made 19 appearances for Latvia until 1937 and sc ...
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Juris Skadiņš
The Juris were a tribe of South American Indigenous people, formerly occupying the country between the rivers Içá (lower Putumayo) and Yapura, north-western Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area .... In ancient days they were the most powerful tribe of the district, but in 1820 their numbers did not exceed 2000. Owing to inter-marrying, the Juris are believed to have been extinct for half a century. They were closely related to the Passes, and were like them a fair-skinned, finely built people with quite European features. References * Ethnic groups in Brazil {{Brazil-ethno-group-stub ...
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Indriķis Reinbahs
Indriķis is a Latvian masculine given name. It is the Latvian form of Henry and may refer to: * Indriķis Alunāns, young Latvian and journalist * Indriķis Blankenburgs, Latvian architect * Indriķis Jurko, Latvian General and military officer, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Jelgava (1944) * Indriķis Laube, German-Latvian translator and writer *Indriķis Muižnieks, Latvian scholar and professor * Indriķis Pūliņš, Latvian sailor and ship building engineer * Indriķis Šterns, Latvian historian * Indriķis Zeberiņš, Latvian painter * Indriķis Zīle, first Latvian Song and Dance Festival The Latvian Song and Dance Festival ( lv, Vispārējie latviešu Dziesmu un Deju svētki) is one of the largest amateur choral and dancing events in the world and an important event in Latvian culture and social life. As one of the Baltic song ... director and composer * Indriķis Zvejnieks, Latvian revolutionary {{Given name, cat=Latvian masculine gi ...
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Aleksandrs Roga
Aleksandrs Roge (19 April 1896 – 1945) was a Latvian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op .... References External links * 1896 births 1945 deaths Latvian footballers Latvia international footballers Olympic footballers of Latvia Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Association football defenders Footballers from Riga {{Latvia-footy-bio-stub ...
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