Kaspars Stolcers

Left Midfielder - Ventspils U18
21 Nov 2027
Sunday
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Marked for Kaspars Stolcers

45 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Igors Bulvitis takes the afternoon — 8.96

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Igors Bulvitis provided it, and the 8.96 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Ventspils refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 19 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Player ratings

Vitalijs Ikaunieks runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Raivis Zjuzins gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

One of those days for Eduards Bulvitis

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Kaspars Stolcers stays put

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

Loan watch

Kaspars Rugins wants to come home

“I did not go to Daugavpils to sit and watch. I want to come back to Ventspils and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.

Match

Igors Bulvitis rescues a point for Ventspils

It needed Igors Bulvitis to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Skonto, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Raivis Zjuzins

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Raivis Zjuzins has come out of that comparison in the side, and Ventspils have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

Back issues
37 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Ventspils

0‑1 against Daugavpils, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

A fracture rules Vladimirs Jurkovskis out for 19 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ventspils will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Igors Bulvitis 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.

The terraces

Ventspils supporters have found a favourite in Zsombor Gruber

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Zsombor Gruber has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Zsombor Gruber

Marked 8.03 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Kaspars Stolcers runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Loan watch

Kaspars Rugins counts the days

“I watch every Ventspils game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Daugavpils runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Tempers go at Ventspils

Olegs Rugins 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.

Match

Honours even between Ventspils and Metta/LU

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief