Marcis Dubra

Left Midfielder - Ventspils
7 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Marcis Dubra

20 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kristaps Ikaunieks damages knee ligaments — 77 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 77 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Nemanja Gavrić in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bryan Van Den Bogaert 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

Back issues
2 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Metta/LU come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Ventspils did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Igors Cauna stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Igors Cauna and Ventspils agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Igors Cauna in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Jelgava watching Kristaps Oss

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ventspils have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristaps Ikaunieks 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Eduards Ikaunieks

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eduards Ikaunieks, and the manager let it.

In brief

1 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Kaspars Laizans 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Ventspils

Igors Cauna 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.

Squad

Kaspars Tarasovs signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kaspars Tarasovs commits to Ventspils for another 2 years.

Market

Marcis Dubra attracts admirers

The name of Marcis Dubra has come up in conversations Ventspils were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Igors Cauna knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ventspils, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcis Dubra 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.

In brief