Latvia national under-21 football team

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Latvia Under-21

Association

Head coach

Genādijs Šitiks (since 2007)





First kit





Second kit

First International

Biggest win

Biggest defeat

Latvia's national Under-21 football team, also known as Latvia Under-21s or Latvia U-21s, is considered to be the feeder team for the Latvia national football team.

This team is for Latvian players aged 21 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-21 Football Championship campaign, so players can be, and often are, up to 23 years old. Also in existence are teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s. As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, as Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs and Aleksejs Višņakovs have done recently. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible).

1 Coaching Staff
2 Current players
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Coaching Staff

Head Coach	Genādijs Šitiks
Assistant Coach	Igors Stepanovs & Jānis Intenbergs
Goalkeeping Coach	Aleksandrs Proskurņins
Physiotherapist	Oļegs Samoiļenko
Doctor	Dr Boriss Novikovs

[edit] Current players

Players born in 1986 or later are eligible for the 2007-09 UEFA European U-21 Championship, players born in 1988 or later are eligible for the 2009-11 UEFA European U-21 Championship, and so on. The Under-19 team will be the most obvious source of the next crop of Under-21s.

1986-born
(eligible to 2009 UEFA U21 Champ)

Aleksandrs Vlasovs
Sergejs Kožans
Vitālijs Smirnovs
Artjoms Kuzņecovs
Oļegs Malašenoks
Artjoms Kuzņecovs
Ritus Krjauklis
Kristaps Blanks

1987-born
(eligible to 2009 UEFA U21 Champ)

Oļegs Laizāns
Aleksandrs Fertovs
Ivans Lukjanovs
Germans Māliņš
Maksims Uvarenko
Artūrs Silagailis
Dmitrijs Šiluks
Vladislavs Gabovs
Igors Kozlovs
Dmitrijs Zolotarjovs

1988-born
(eligible to 2011 UEFA U21 Champ)

Aleksandrs Cauņa
Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs
Jevgēņijs Sazonovs
Vadims Gaiļus
Jevgēņijs Kazura
Ivans Sputajs
Aleksandrs Solovjovs
Vadims Žuļevs
Edgars Gauračs
Daņils Turkovs

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Uefa Under-21 website Contains full results archive
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21 Championship hosts and additional statistics, such as the Group Winners table for the 1998 qualifiers.

National under-21 football teams of Europe (UEFA)

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