Oļegs Laizāns (born 28 March 1987) is a

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currently playing for Super Nova and the Latvia national football team.

Club career

Early career, Skonto and loans

As a young player Oļegs Laizāns played for JFC Skonto, being taken to the first team in 2005. He played there for 5 and a half years before being loaned to the Polish Ekstraklasa club

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and Latvian First League team

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in 2010. While on loan Laizāns played 8 matches and scored 1 goal in Poland, whilst in Latvia he played 7 games and scored 4 times. In 2010, he helped

to win the Latvian First League championship and qualify for the Latvian Higher League for the first time in the history of the club. In 2006, he was named the best young player of the year. IN total over five and a half years Laizāns played 56 matches, scoring 11 goals for

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in the Latvian football championship before being released at the start of 2011. With Skonto he reached the second place in the league in 2005 and was runner-up for the Latvian Cup in 2006 but didn't win any major trophies.

FK Ventspils

At the start of 2011, after some ups-and-downs in the football career, Oļegs was signed by another Latvian Higher League club FK Ventspils, who were completing their squad for the upcoming season. Right after joining Laizāns proved his ability, becoming a first eleven player. All in all he played 30 matches that season and scored 3 goals, also being elected the captain of the team. This year turned out to be really lucky, as he not only managed to become the champion of the league but also won the Latvian Cup. After a very good season he was included in both - LFF and ''sportacentrs.com'' championship all-star teams and was also named the biggest surprise of the season by fans via ''sportacentrs.com''.

ŁKS Łódź

On 16 February 2012 Laizāns joined the Polish Ekstraklasa club ŁKS Łódź. He made his debut 2 days later in a league match against Polonia Warsaw, playing 90 minutes and collecting a yellow card in a 0–2 loss. All in all he played 9 league matches for LKS, leaving the team after its relegation to the I liga in July 2012.

Yenisey Krasnoyarsk

Laizāns joined the Russian National Football League club Yenisey Krasnoyarsk on 7 July 2012. In his first season with the club Laizāns scored 2 goals in 23 league matches.

International career

Laizāns has represented

at all youth level national teams and received his first call-up for the senior national team in 2011 for a friendly match against

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on 10 August. As of June 2016 he has played 23 international matches for Latvia, scoring no goals yet.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Laizans, Olegs 1987 births Living people Footballers from Riga Latvian men's footballers Skonto FC players ŁKS Łódź players FK Ventspils players Lechia Gdańsk players FB Gulbene players Latvian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Russia FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk players Riga FC players FK Spartaks Jūrmala players SK Super Nova players Latvia men's youth international footballers Latvia men's under-21 international footballers Latvia men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders