Reinis Reinholds (born 26 September 1997) is a

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who plays as a

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Club career

Youth years

Reinholds spent his teenage years in the

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academy, playing mainly with the under-17 and under-19 teams. He also made five appearances with the reserve squad, Ventspils-2, in the second-tier First League during the 2013 season, as well as one lone appearance with the first team, coming on as a late-match replacement keeper for

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, who was sent off during a

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fixture against Skonto on 18 June 2014. After trialling with

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, he was discovered by an agent who, in the summer of 2014, helped him make the move to Italian club

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, where he played '' Primavera'' (under-19) football during the 2014–15 season.

Professional career

In November 2015, Reinholds signed with

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. He failed to make a single appearance during the 2015–16 season, serving as the third-string keeper behind Alessandro Favaro and Lazar Petković. In the summer of 2016, he signed with

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side Civitanovese. However, after making just one league appearance, he was released by the club that December. Later that month, he returned to Serie C, signing with Racing Roma. At the age of 19, he finally made his professional debut on 23 December 2016, playing as the starting keeper in a 2–1 league defeat to

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. For the season, he kept four clean sheets in 19 league appearances as his team finished last in their group. The season was also marred with heavy links to English club

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; scouts were watching his matches in February and he trialled at

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in May. However, in August, he signed a three-year contract with Serie C side

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. He spent the 2017–18 season as a third-string keeper, failing to come off the bench behind Lazar Petković and Matteo Voltolini. He next year, he was demoted to fourth-string, as he failed to make a single appearance on the bench while Pisa achieved promotion to

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. On 21 August 2019, he was loaned to Cypriot club

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. From June 2020, to February 2022, Reinholds was without club, before signing with

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. The club confirmed his departure in August 2022.SEVEN NEW PLAYERS HAVE JOINED VALMIERA FC
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Honours

Club

;Ventspils *

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reinholds, Reinis Living people 1997 births Latvian men's footballers Latvian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers FK Ventspils players Calcio Padova players Civitanovese Calcio players SS Racing Club Roma players Pisa SC players Pafos FC players Valmiera FC players Latvian Higher League players Serie C players Serie D players Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus People from Ventspils