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Ģirts Karlsons

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Ģirts Karlsons
Personal information
Date of birth (1981-06-07) 7 June 1981 (age 41)
Place of birth Liepāja, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Republic of Latvia)
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Liepājas Metalurgs
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2003 Liepājas Metalurgs 96 (40)
2004 Shinnik Yaroslavl 8 (0)
2005 Venta 6 (0)
2005–2007 Liepājas Metalurgs 65 (34)
2008 De Graafschap 5 (0)
2008–2009 Liepājas Metalurgs 32 (24)
2009–2012 Inter Baku 73 (36)
2012–2013 Liepājas Metalurgs 19 (9)
2013 Pro Duta 20 (15)
2014 Neman Grodno 9 (1)
2014–2017 Ventspils 75 (35)
2017–2018 Liepāja 28 (14)
International career
2003–2017 Latvia 51 (9)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ģirts Karlsons (born 7 June 1981) is a Latvian former football forward.

Club career

As a youth player Karlsons played for his local club FK Liepājas Metalurgs, being taken to the first team in 1998, at the age of 17. He spent the next six seasons with the club, becoming the second top scorer of the Latvian Higher League in 2003 with 26 goals, completing two hat-tricks during the season.[1] All in all he played 96 matches for his local club, scoring 40 goals. After these bright appearances he had impressed clubs abroad, and in January 2004 Karlsons went on a month-long trial with the Russian Premier League club Shinnik Yaroslavl. Afterwards he signed a three-year contract with them.[2]

However, his spell there wasn't as successful as expected and was very short. After just one season, during which he played only 8 league matches without scoring goals, Karlsons returned to the Latvian Higher League, signing with the newly promoted, ambitious club Venta Kuldiga in 2005.[3] However, the club struggled financially and after just five matches had to let some of their players go, including Karlsons,[4] who returned to his hometown club, Liepājas Metalurgs later that year. He spent the next three seasons there, once again showing great performance. He scored a hat-trick in the 2005 season, and he also scored in the Latvian Cup final on 25 September 2005, which Metalurgs lost 2–1 to Venta Kuldīga.[5]

Another hat-trick came in the 2006 season, which Karlsons finished as the second top scorer with 14 goals. In the Latvian Cup he scored a hat-trick in the 6–1 semi-final victory over Dižvanagi Rēzekne and then scored in the final, which the club won 2–1 over Skonto Riga.[6] In December 2006 Karlsons was named the runner-up of the Latvian Player of the Year Award by the Latvian Football Federation behind the winner Aleksandrs Koliņko, who that time was the first-choice keeper for Rubin Kazan in the Russian Premier League.[7] His contract with Metalurgs expired in July 2007 and it was not renewed. Player was then linked with the English Championship club Bristol City, before going on trial with Southampton.[8] In January 2008 he had a two-day trial with Wolverhampton Wanderers.[9] Karlsons then had trials in the Netherlands with Zwolle and De Graafschap, [10] and on 8 February 2008 he signed for De Graafschap, which that time competed in the Dutch Eredivisie.[11] Karlsons returned to Liepājas Metalurgs in the middle of 2008, because of limited game time. After some impressive matches there he attracted interest from several European clubs, but finally settled down in Azerbaijan, signing a contract with Inter Baku in the summer of 2009.[12]

The next season, he became the champion of Azerbaijan. He scored 8 goals in 19 matches for Inter in his first season there, but the next two weren't that successful anymore and in July 2012 he was released. In August 2012 Karlsons once again returned to Liepājas Metalurgs.[13] The 2012 season saw Karlsons scoring 9 goals in 19 league matches. Even though Metalurgs expressed their interest to keep him at the club, Karlsons chose to continue his career abroad, joining the Indonesian Premier League club Pro Duta in March 2013.[14] On 14 April 2013 he scored his first two goals in a 3-0 league victory over Bontang.[15] Throughout the season Karlsons scored 15 league goals for the club, completing two hat-tricks.[16] He left Pro Duta at the end of his contract in November 2013. In February 2014 Karlsons went on trial with the Belarusian Premier League club Neman Grodno alongside his international fellow Igors Tarasovs and signed a contract with the club on 26 February 2014.[17] He scored his first Belarusian Premier League goal in a 3–2 victory over Dnepr Mogilev on 19 April 2014.[18] Karlsons left Neman on 9 June 2014 due to family reasons and returned to Latvia.[19] On 3 July 2014 Karlsons signed a contract with the Latvian Higher League title holders FK Ventspils.[20] He helped the club retain the title for the second year in a row.[21]

Karlsons left FK Liepāja at the end of 2018.[22]

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FK Liepājas Metalurgs

FK Liepājas Metalurgs

FK Liepājas Metalurgs was a Latvian football club in the city of Liepāja and playing in the Virslīga. They played at the Daugava Stadium. In 2005 Liepājas Metalurgs became the first team other than Skonto Riga to win the Virslīga since the league restarted in 1991. After the 2013 league season the club was dissolved due to the bankruptcy of its sole sponsor metallurgical plant Liepājas Metalurgs. The club was replaced by FK Liepāja, founded in 2014.

Latvian Higher League

Latvian Higher League

Latvian Higher League or Virslīga, known for sponsorship reasons as Optibet Virslīga since 2019, is a professional football league and the top tier of association football in Latvia. Organised by the Latvian Football Federation, the Higher League is contested by 10 clubs.

Russian Premier League

Russian Premier League

The Russian Premier League, also written as Russian Premier Liga, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. It was established at the end of 2001 as the Russian Football Premier League and was rebranded with its current name in 2018. From 1992 through 2001, the top level of the Russian football league system was the Russian Football Championship.

FC Shinnik Yaroslavl

FC Shinnik Yaroslavl

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Latvian Football Cup

Latvian Football Cup

The Latvian Football Cup is the main knockout cup competition in Latvian football. Since 2021, its full name is Responsible Gaming Latvian Football Cup due to the sponsorship by sports betting company William Hill. The tournament was launched in 1937, replacing the previous knockout tournament – the Riga Football Cup.

Skonto FC

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, and often provided the core of the Latvia national football team. With those 14 national championships in a row, they set a European record, men and women's football combined, until the women of Faroese club KÍ Klaksvík won their 14th championship in a row in 2013.

Latvian Football Federation

Latvian Football Federation

The Latvian Football Federation (LFF) is the governing body of football in Latvia with its headquarters located in the capital Rimi Sports Centre in Riga. Its activities include the organizing of the Latvian football championship, the Latvian First League, the Latvian Second League, as well as lower league championships and the Latvian Football Cup. The federation also manages the Latvia national football team.

Aleksandrs Koliņko

Aleksandrs Koliņko

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FC Rubin Kazan

FC Rubin Kazan

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Bristol City F.C.

Bristol City F.C.

Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, which compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. They have played their home games at Ashton Gate since moving from St John's Lane in 1904. The club's home colours are red and white, and their nickname is The Robins—a robin featured on the club's badge from 1976 to 1994 and from 2019 onwards. Their main rivals are Bristol Rovers, with whom they contest the Bristol derby, and Cardiff City, with whom they contest the cross-border Severnside derby.

Southampton F.C.

Southampton F.C.

Southampton Football Club is an English professional football club based in Southampton, Hampshire, which competes in the Premier League. Their home ground since 2001 has been St Mary's Stadium, before which they were based at The Dell. The club play in red and white shirts. They have been nicknamed "The Saints" because of the club's beginnings as a church football team at St Mary's Church. Southampton share a long-standing South Coast derby rivalry with Portsmouth, in part due to geographic proximity and both cities' respective maritime histories.

International career

Karlsons played for the Latvia-U21.[23] Karlsons made his first appearance for Latvia national team on 20 December 2003 as a second-half substitute against Kuwait in Cyprus, which Latvia lost 2–0.[24] On 28 December 2005 he scored in Latvia's 2–1 win over Oman national football team to reach the final of the King's Cup in Thailand.[25] Latvia won the cup, beating Korea DPR 2–1 in the final on 30 December with Karlsons again scoring.[26] Currently Karlsons has 50 international caps under his belt, having scored 9 goals.[27] He played in an international game on 9 February 2011, a 2–1 victory in a friendly match against Bolivia, coming on as a late substitute, which would be his last match for the national team until late 2016.[28] Karlsons was recalled to the national team in the autumn of 2016, earning his 50th cap on 7 October 2016 after coming on as a substitute in the 0:2 home loss against the Faroe Islands in a 2018 World Cup qualifier.[29]

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Latvia national under-21 football team

The Latvia national under-21 football team represents the under-21s of Latvia and is controlled by the Latvian Football Federation, the governing body of football in Latvia. The team competes in the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years. The team is coached by Aleksandrs Basovs and is currently captained by defender Daniels Balodis.

Latvia national football team

Latvia national football team

The Latvia national football team represents Latvia in international football and is controlled by the Latvian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Latvia. They have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, but did qualify for the European Championship in 2004 under head coach Aleksandrs Starkovs.

Kuwait national football team

Kuwait national football team

The Kuwait national football team is the national team of Kuwait and is controlled by the Kuwait Football Association. Kuwait made one World Cup finals appearance, in 1982, managing one point in the group stages. In the Asian Cup, Kuwait reached the final in 1976 and won the tournament in 1980.

Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is geographically in Western Asia, but its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southeastern European. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is located north of Egypt, east of Greece, south of Turkey, and west of Lebanon and Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. The northeast portion of the island is de facto governed by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Oman national football team

Oman national football team

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Thailand

Thailand

Thailand, historically known as Siam and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning 513,120 square kilometres (198,120 sq mi), with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the extremity of Myanmar. Thailand also shares maritime borders with Vietnam to the southeast, and Indonesia and India to the southwest. Bangkok is the nation's capital and largest city.

Bolivia national football team

Bolivia national football team

The Bolivia national football team, also known as La Verde, has represented Bolivia in international football since 1926. Organized by the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF), it is one of the ten members of FIFA's South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL).

Faroe Islands national football team

Faroe Islands national football team

The Faroe Islands national football team represents the Faroe Islands in association football and is governed by the Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF). The FSF became a member of FIFA in 1988 and UEFA in 1990 and represents the fourth-smallest UEFA country by population.

Honours

Team

Individual

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Latvian Football Cup

Latvian Football Cup

The Latvian Football Cup is the main knockout cup competition in Latvian football. Since 2021, its full name is Responsible Gaming Latvian Football Cup due to the sponsorship by sports betting company William Hill. The tournament was launched in 1937, replacing the previous knockout tournament – the Riga Football Cup.

Baltic League

Baltic League

The Baltic League was a Baltic men's football club tournament held four times between the top club sides from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Launched in 2007 inspired by the now defunct Scandinavian tournament Royal League and by the Baltic Basketball League.

Azerbaijan Premier League

Azerbaijan Premier League

The Azerbaijan Premier League is a professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the Azerbaijan football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 10 clubs. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 36 matches each. The Premier League champion secures the right to play in UEFA Champions League first qualifying round. The runner up and the 3rd place winner secure right to play in UEFA Europa Conference League starting in second qualifying round.

2011 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

2011 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

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Baltic Cup (football)

Baltic Cup (football)

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Career statistics

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 26 December 2005 Surakul Stadium, Phuket, Thailand  North Korea 1–1 Drew 2005 King's Cup
2. 28 December 2005 Surakul Stadium, Phuket, Thailand  Oman 1–2 Won 2005 King's Cup
3. 30 December 2005 Surakul Stadium, Phuket, Thailand  North Korea 1–2 Won 2005 King's Cup
4. 7 October 2006 Skonto Stadium, Riga, Latvia  Iceland 4–0 Won Euro 2008 qual.
5. 17 November 2007 Skonto Stadium, Riga, Latvia  Liechtenstein 4–1 Won Euro 2008 qual.
6. 6 February 2008 Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia  Georgia 1–3 Won Friendly
7. 6 September 2008 Sheriff Stadium, Tiraspol, Moldova  Moldova 1–2 Won 2010 World Cup qual.
8. 28 March 2009 Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg  Luxembourg 0–4 Won 2010 World Cup qual.
9. 3 March 2010 Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda, Angola  Angola 1–1 Drew Friendly
Correct as of 7 October 2015[30]

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Surakul Stadium

Surakul Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Phuket Province, Thailand. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 15,000 and was built in 1959.

Thailand

Thailand

Thailand, historically known as Siam and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning 513,120 square kilometres (198,120 sq mi), with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the extremity of Myanmar. Thailand also shares maritime borders with Vietnam to the southeast, and Indonesia and India to the southwest. Bangkok is the nation's capital and largest city.

North Korea national football team

North Korea national football team

The North Korea national football team represents North Korea in men's international football and it is controlled by the DPR Korea Football Association, the governing body for Football in North Korea. The team represents both FIFA and Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

2005 King's Cup

2005 King's Cup

The 2005 King's Cup finals were held from 24 to 30 December 2005, the final being held at the Surakul Stadium in Phuket. Group phase games were also held in Krabi Stadium, Krabi and Phang Nga Stadium, Phang Nga. The King's Cup (คิงส์คัพ) is an annual football tournament; the first tournament was played in 1968.

Oman national football team

Oman national football team

The Oman national football team represents Oman in men's international football and is controlled by the Oman Football Association. Although the team was officially founded in 1978, the squad was formed some time before that and a proper football association was formed only in December 2005.

Skonto Stadium

Skonto Stadium

Skonto Stadium is a football stadium in Riga, Latvia. The stadium was built in 2000 and currently has 8,087 seats in total. It is the 2nd-largest stadium in Latvia, behind Daugava Stadium. The stadium design incorporates Skonto Hall.

Riga

Riga

Riga 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 Baltic Sea. Riga's territory covers 307.17 km2 (118.60 sq mi) and lies 1–10 m (3.3–32.8 ft) above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain.

Latvia

Latvia

Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the Baltic states; and is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of 64,589 km2 (24,938 sq mi), with a population of 1.9 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian, one of the only two surviving Baltic languages. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population.

Iceland national football team

Iceland national football team

The Iceland national football team represents Iceland in men's international football. The team is controlled by the Football Association of Iceland, and have been a FIFA member since 1947 and an UEFA member since 1957. The team's nickname is Strákarnir okkar, which means Our Boys in Icelandic.

UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying

UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying

Qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2008 finals tournament took place between August 2006 and November 2007. Fifty teams were divided into seven groups. In a double round-robin system, each team played against each of the others in their group on a home-and-away basis. The winner and runner-up of each group qualified automatically for the final tournament. This was the first Euro qualification since expansion to have no playoff.

Source: "Ģirts Karlsons", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 7th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ģirts_Karlsons.

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Latvian Higher League

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Kristaps Grebis

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Genādijs Soloņicins

Pāvels Mihadjuks

Maksims Rafaļskis

Igors Tarasovs

Alans Siņeļņikovs
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