Aleksandrs Solovjovs (born 25 February 1988) is a

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

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, currently playing for RFS in the

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Career

As a youth player Solovjovs played for

Skonto Riga Skonto FC was a Latvian football club, active from 1991 until 2016. The club played at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 14 seasons of the league's resumption (15 in total), and often provided the core of the Lat ...

, making his first first-team appearance in 2007. Despite being in the club's player list for the upcoming season, Solovjovs didn't even play a match for Skonto, as he was loaned out to Olimps for one season. He played 24 matches, netting 3 times. After the end of that season, in February 2008, it was announced that he was to undergo a trial with

Zenit St. Petersburg Football Club Zenit (russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб «Зенит» ), also known as Zenit Saint Petersburg or simply Zenit, is a Russian professional football club based in Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914, acco ...

reserves. Later it was said that Aleksandrs had left a good impression, but he wasn't offered a contract that time. In 2008, he left

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

anyway, signing with

FK Ventspils FK Ventspils is a Latvian football club, based at Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions in Ventspils city and is one of the most popular football clubs in the country. The club played in the Latvian Virsliga since 1997. It was abolished in 2020, but h ...

on 1 September. He played 15 matches there, scoring 3 times. In September 2009 Solovjovs had unsuccessful trials with English

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side

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, Scottish First Division Ross County, and

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of Italian

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later on. At the end of 2009 Solovjovs appeared in the group stage matches of

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, also in the away draw against the German club

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. In January 2010 it was reported that Solovjovs, along with fellow Ventspils teammate, Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs was on trial at English

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side,

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. He didn't stay with the club and was loaned to another Latvian club from the

Ventspils Ventspils (; german: Windau, ; see other names) is a state city in northwestern Latvia in the historical Courland region of Latvia, and is the sixth largest city in the country. At the beginning of 2020, Ventspils had a population of 33,906. It ...

city Tranzīts. He played 11 games there, scoring no goals. In August 2010, after returning from loan, Solovjovs was released from FK Ventspils because of contract infringement. He didn't stay without a club for a long time, just after 5 days signing for

Atromitos Yeroskipou Atromitos Yeroskipou ( el, Ατρόμητος Γεροσκήπου) was a Cypriot football team based in the town of Yeroskipou, Paphos. The club was founded in 1956 but the club was competing until 2004 in Paphos local league. The club was pro ...

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. He played there for half a year, fighting with injuries and personal problems. He was released from the Cypriot side at the start of 2011. During the start of the year Solovjovs had trials with many clubs abroad and in September 2011 he joined

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in the English

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. In 2012 Solovjovs signed a contract with the Lithuanian

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club Tauras Tauragė. He played 15 matches, scoring 2 goals for them and left in the summer of 2012. Solovjovs then joined his home land club

Jūrmala Jūrmala (; "seaside") is a state city in Latvia, about west of Riga. Jūrmala is a resort town stretching and sandwiched between the Gulf of Riga and the Lielupe River. It has a stretch of white-sand beach, and a population of 49,325 in 2019 ...

in the

. Playing in

during the 2012 season, Solovjovs scored 5 goals in 13 league matches for the club. In February 2013 he moved to the Latvian Higher League club Spartaks Jūrmala. Solovjovs played 5 matches for Spartaks during the 2013 season, joining that time Latvian champions Daugava Daugavpils before their

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campaign in July 2013.

International career

Solovjovs has represented

in all youth level national teams, including Latvia U-17, Latvia U-19 and Latvia U-21. He got called up for Latvian senior side and experience his debut on 25 March 2017. Solovjovs played 90 minutes both in

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0:1 away loss to

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and in friendly match against

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three days later.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Solovjovs, Aleksandrs Latvian footballers 1988 births Living people Footballers from Riga Latvia men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Skonto FC players FK Ventspils players Atromitos Yeroskipou players Nantwich Town F.C. players Latvian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Cyprus Expatriate footballers in England Northern Premier League players Cypriot Second Division players Expatriate footballers in Lithuania FC Jūrmala players FK Spartaks Jūrmala players JFK Olimps players FC Daugava players JK Sillamäe Kalev players FK RFS players