Kaspars Laizans

Defensive Midfielder - Skonto
25 Dec 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Kaspars Laizans

20 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Juan Martín Rojas 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 Skonto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Kaspars Laizans 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.

Squad

Jānis Grīnbergs has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Skonto know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Davis Oss damages knee ligaments — 21 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 21 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

Tempers go at Skonto

Juan Martín Rojas 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

Words at Skonto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kaspars Laizans 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