Ņikita Kovaļonoks (born 2 July 1995) is a Latvian professional

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who plays as a

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for Kyrgyz club Dordoi Bishkek.

Career

On 26 May 2013, after Kovaļonoks was substituted off during a Skonto reserve game, his father almost got into a fistfight with the head coach.Ņikita Kovaļonoks - czyli kogo testuje Stomil?
baltyckifutbol.pl In 2013, after trialing for Dutch top flight clubs Vitesse, Ajax, and

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, he signed for another

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, playing for their youth teams before joining Dutch lower league side VUC. In 2015, Kovaļonoks signed for VFC Plauen in the NOFV-Oberliga Süd, the fifth tier of German football. In 2020, he signed for Polish second division outfit Stomil Olsztyn after playing for FK Dinamo Rīga in the Latvian second division. In July 2021, he joined

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side Lincoln Red Imps, making his debut on 6 July 2021 in the

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qualifying match against CS Fola Esch.Fola-Lincoln Red Imps Live
UEFA.com. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.

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* 1995 births Living people Latvian men's footballers Men's association football forwards VFC Plauen players FK RFS players FK Metta players Stomil Olsztyn S.A. players Lincoln Red Imps F.C. players Avia Świdnik players SSD Città di Teramo players Sondrio Calcio players FC Dordoi Bishkek players Latvian Higher League players Oberliga (football) players I liga players III liga players Latvian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Gibraltar Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Kyrgyzstan Latvian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Italy {{Latvia-footy-bio-stub