Arnolds Tauriņš
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 August 1905 | ||
| Place of birth | Russian Empire | ||
| Date of death | 20 August 1984 (aged 74) | ||
| Place of death | Milwaukee, USA | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1923 | Amatieris | ||
| 1924-1927 | RFK | ||
| 1928 | Amatieris | ||
| 1929-1935 | RFK | ||
| National team | |||
| 1925–1935 | Latvia | 39 | (10) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Arnolds Tauriņš (10 August 1905 - 20 August 1984 in Milwaukee) was a Latvian footballer, a seven-time champion of Latvia in 1920s-1930s.
Biography
For the biggest part of his career Tauriņš played with RFK, but he started playing with Amatieris in 1923 (he played again with Amatieris in 1928). A year later he joined RFK as it won its first Latvian Higher League title. Over the eleven seasons that Tauriņš played with RFK he won seven Latvian league titles - the highest number for any Riga footballer in pre-war Latvia, only matched by Kārlis Tīls and Fricis Laumanis of Olimpija Liepāja. Tauriņš also won the Riga Football Cup twice when playing for RFK.
Tauriņš was notable not only for his success when playing for the club but also for his career in the Latvia national football team. His international career went on for 10 years (from 1925 to 1935) over which Tauriņš played 39 matches for the national team and scored 10 goals, making him the fifth most-capped footballer in pre-war Latvia and the countries fourth best international goal-scorer. One of his goals brought Latvia victory in the first ever Baltic Cup.[1]
After World War II Tauriņš ended up outside Latvia and later lived in the USA.