Valentīns Lobaņovs (russian: Валентин Анатольевич Лобанёв; born 23 October 1971 in
Riga) is a former
football midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
from
Latvia. He has played 58 international matches and scored 1 goal for the
Latvia national team. He debuted in 1994, and played at the
Euro 2004
The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2004, was the 12th edition of the UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial football competition contested by the men's national teams of UEFA member associations. The ...
. He started his career in
Skonto FC
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 Latv ...
and later played for
Metallurg Lipetsk,
Metallurg Krasnoyarsk,
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 ...
,
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
MFC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Футбо́льний клуб «Металу́рг» Запорі́жжя ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Zaporizhzhia. Reestablished in 2017, it is a "phoenix club" of the original Soviet ...
,
FK Venta
FK Venta were a Latvian football club based in Ventspils. They were established in 1964 and went bankrupt in 2005.
Club history
The club was founded in 1964 as Naftas bāze, in its debut season in the Latvian league it finished 6th from 14 teams ...
. His last club was
FK Jūrmala FK or fk may refer to:
In arts and entertainment:
* Flyer Killer, fictional automated robots in the ''Terminator'' film franchise.
* Fox Kids, a former American children's television programming block.
* Funky Kong, a video game character.
Place: ...
.
Honours
;Skonto
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Latvian Higher League
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champion: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003
*
Latvian Football Cup winner: 1992, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001
External links
Voetbal InternationalLatvian Football Federation
(in Latvian)
1971 births
Living people
Soviet footballers
FK Liepājas Metalurgs players
Latvian footballers
Skonto FC players
FC Metallurg Lipetsk players
Latvian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
Russian Premier League players
FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk players
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
FK Daugava (2003) players
Latvia international footballers
UEFA Euro 2004 players
Latvian people of Russian descent
FK Venta players
Association football midfielders
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