The Ventspils Gazette
Match19 Aug 2026
Ventspils out of the cup
Jelgava ended it 2‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Raivis Rugins is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Raivis Rugins: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market24 Aug 2026
Aleksandrs Stolcers asks to leave Ventspils
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Aquiles Ocanto 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ventspils
Alvis Kamess was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Deyair Reyes
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Ventspils will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
In brief
- Player ratings Davis Dubra misses from twelve yards
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Pavels Tarasovs
- Market Experience through the door at Ventspils