Steps forward and back / Day

by times news cr

A wide geography, from the far east of the continent to the south, will be represented by candidates for the Latvian national team in the new club football season. Their names are in vain to be looked for in the teams of the five strongest leagues in Europe, but the positions of several of our footballers can open the possibility to return to that level as well, if they perform well.

After the “visit” of Jānis Ikaunieks in the French top league in 2014/2015. In the season of 2017 and Artjom Rudņev’s last matches in the German Bundesliga in 2017, Latvian footballers were far from Europe for several seasons Top 5 league teams’ radars, however, in recent years, the leaders of the national team managed to gradually approach them again. Two seasons ago, Roberts Uldrikis took a step from the Swiss top league to one of Europe’s strongest national championships in the Netherlands, who played two full seasons Eredivisiebut in 2022/2023 Raimonds Krollis “signed up” for four games in the Italian Serie A season. Both strikers had to take a step back in the course of their careers in order to try to jump to this level again in the near future. Uldričis landed in Greece this summer and will start the season this summer

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