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Edition
The Jelgava Sentinel
12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Arturs Rugins
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Jelgava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Jelgava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roberts Zjuzins is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Jelgava
Arturs Rugins and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Roberts Zjuzins plays
- Squad Kaspars Laizans is not doing himself any favours
- The dugout Vladimirs Tarasovs keeps his manager's vote