16
Edition
The Ventspils Gazette
16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
The knee: Gatis Dubra out for 19 days
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ventspils lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Ventspils
Alvis Jaunzems and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Stanley Amuzie falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Denis Nya plays
- Market Ventspils and Chinedu Chukwu are talking past each other
- Squad Benjamin Jack needs a bigger stage
- The dugout Gatis Dubra keeps his manager's vote