Ādolfs August Greble (10 October 1902 – 30 March 1943) was a Latvian

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Football career

He played in seven matches for the Latvia national football team from 1923 to 1929. He was also part of Latvia's squad for the football tournament at the

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, but he did not play in any matches. Greble played in club level for LSB in 1922–24 and 1926-29 and JKS in 1925. During the 1930s he officiated as a referee and in 1940 returned to LSB as its coach.
Football in Latvia 1907-1940 biography Adolfs Greble, (Latvian language) accessed 13 March 2022.

Personal life and death

Greble was born in

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, Latvia, son of Johann Greble and his wife Auguste (''nee'' Zalcmane). He studied at the University of Latvia in Engineering, Mathematics and Agriculture, with an interval of compulsory military service in the Latvian Army heavy artillery in 1925–26. He became a journalist, first editor of the sports journal ''Sporta pasule'' in 1931–34. In 1934 he was briefly detained as a member of the board of the banned fascist Perkonkrusts (Thunder Cross) movement following the coup of Karlis Ulmanis. Following the Soviet annexation of Latvia in 1940, Greble was arrested by the Soviet authorities and after being deemed "socially dangerous" was deported into Russia in October 1941 after being sentenced to imprisonment in the

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. He died in prison camp in Vyatlaga, Russia in March 1943.

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