Sergejs Kožans

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Sergejs Kožans

Kožans playing for Skonto Rīga
Personal information
Date of birth (1986-02-16) 16 February 1986
Place of birthRiga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Republic of Latvia)
Height1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing positionDefender
Club information
Current clubSkonto Rīga
Number27
Youth career
JFC Skonto
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005–2009Skonto Rīga51(5)
2009–2012Lechia Gdańsk42(1)
2012Shakhtyor Soligorsk0(0)
2013Slavia-Mozyr5(0)
2013-Skonto Rīga2(0)
National team
2006–2008Latvia U-21
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 August 2013.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 August 2013

Sergejs Kožans (born 16 February 1986 in Riga) is a Latvian football defender, who is currently playing for Skonto Rīga in the Latvian Higher League.[1]

Club career

As a youth player Kožans played for JFC Skonto, making his professional debut in 2005. He spent 4 years playing for Skonto Riga in the Latvian Higher League, all in all making 51 appearance and scoring 5 goals. In 2009, alongside his team-mate Ivans Lukjanovs, Kožans joined the Polish Ekstraklasa side Lechia Gdańsk.[2] In his first season with Lechia Kožans played 18 matches and scored 1 goal.[3] All in all he spent three seasons in the Polish Ekstraklasa, playing 42 matches and scoring 1 goal.[4] On May 24, 2012 it was announced that Kožans would leave the club.[5] Sergejs became an unrestricted free agent, and on October 13, 2012 he joined the Belarusian Premier League club Shakhtyor Soligorsk, signing a contract until the end of the season.[6] They finished the 2012 Belarusian Premier League season as the runner-ups.[7] In March 2013 Kožans joined the fellow league club Slavia-Mozyr.[8] He played 5 league matches for the club. In August 2013 Kožans returned to his former club Skonto Rīga in the Latvian Higher League.[9]

International career

From 2006 to 2008 Kožans played for Latvia U-21, but he hasn't been capped for the senior side yet.

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