Juris Laizāns (born 6 January 1979) is a Latvian former professional footballer. A midfielder, he spent a large part of his playing career abroad in Russia. He made 113 appearances for the Latvia national team scoring 15 goals.

Club career

Born in

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, Laizāns started his career with Skonto FC and moved to the Russian team CSKA Moscow in 2000. His team managed to win the UEFA Cup. After leaving CSKA Laizāns kept playing in Russia for

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, FC Rostov, FC Kuban Krasnodar and FC Shinnik Yaroslavl. In 2009, he came back to Latvia, signing for Olimps/RFS, later also playing for FK Ventspils and participating in the UEFA Europa League group stages. Laizāns signed for Skonto FC at the start of 2010, but left the team soon - he joined the Russian team

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. At the end of the season he was released, and he returned to Skonto FC. Playing 14 matches and scoring two goals, he again left Riga, this time in July 2011 for Fakel Voronezh, playing in the Russian First League. After a season spent in Russia, Laizāns again joined Skonto on 30 August 2012. Laizāns played for Skonto till April 2014, afterwards ending his professional footballer's career.

International career

Laizāns played 113 international matches and scored 15 goals for

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. He debuted in 1998 and played at the Euro 2004. His last official international match was a friendly against Republic of Ireland on 15 November 2013. As of 2014, Laizāns ranks third in the list of Latvia's most capped players internationally with 113 appearances. His 15 goals for the national team rank him fifth in the table of top scorers.

Post-playing career

After the end of his professional footballer's career on 11 April 2014, Laizāns accepted an offer from the Russian Premier League club FC Krasnodar to become a member of their scouting staff.

Career statistics

*1997 -

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 ...

(2/0) *1998 -

(26/1) *1999 -

(27/3) *2000 -

(26/6) *2001 - CSKA Moscow (26/0) *2002 - CSKA Moscow (26/3) *2003 - CSKA Moscow (21/1) *2004 - CSKA Moscow (4/0) *2005 - CSKA Moscow (3/1),

(9/1) *2006 - FC Rostov (21/1) *2007 - FC Kuban Krasnodar (24/4) *2008 -

Shinnik Yaroslavl FC Shinnik Yaroslavl (russian: Футбольный клуб «Шинник» Ярославль) is a Russian football club, based in Yaroslavl. From 1957 to 1960 the team was called Khimik (russian: Химик - "the chemist"). In the USSR ...

(24/1) *2009 - Olimps/RFS (10/0) *2009 - FK Ventspils (6/1) *2010 -

(12/1) *2010 -

(13/1) *2011 -

(14/2) *2011/12 - FC Fakel Voronezh (17/3) *2012 -

(6/0) *2013 -

(25/3) *2014 -

(1/0)

Honours

*Champion of Latvia - 1998, 1999, 2000 *Champion of Russia - 2003, 2005 * Russian Cup winner - 2002, 2005 * Russian Super Cup winner - 2004 * UEFA Cup winner - 2005 *

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champion - 2011 * Baltic Cup winner -

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* Latvian Footballer of the Year - 2002

References

External links

Voetbal InternationalLatvian Football Federation
(in Latvian)
Guardian's Stats Centre
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Laizans, Juris 1979 births Living people Footballers from Riga Latvian footballers Association football midfielders Latvian expatriate footballers Latvia international footballers Skonto FC players Latvian Higher League players Russian Premier League players PFC CSKA Moscow players UEFA Cup winning players FC Torpedo Moscow players FC Rostov players FC Kuban Krasnodar players FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players UEFA Euro 2004 players FIFA Men's Century Club Expatriate footballers in Russia Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Russia FC Salyut Belgorod players FC Fakel Voronezh players JFK Olimps players FK Ventspils players