Pavels Stolcers

Goalkeeper - Ventspils U20
24 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Pavels Stolcers

121 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Alvis Ikaunieks 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

Harald Martin Hauso 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

Pavels Stolcers out for 24 days

The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Pavels Stolcers, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

Back issues
117 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Alvis Ikaunieks puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ventspils, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Ventspils

Harald Martin Hauso 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 Ventspils training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vitalijs 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.

In brief

86 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Gatis Tarasovs out for 94 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

A knee injury of the worst kind for Pavels Stolcers

17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ventspils lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Tempers go at Ventspils

Harald Martin Hauso 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

Whatever happens, Ventspils do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vitalijs 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Patrik Vydra

A mark of 7.15, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

85 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Gatis Tarasovs out for 101 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

A knee injury of the worst kind for Pavels Stolcers

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ventspils lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vitalijs Ikaunieks

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Alvis Ikaunieks hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ventspils can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Harald Martin Hauso 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

Vitalijs Ikaunieks 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

84 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Gatis Tarasovs out for 108 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

A knee injury of the worst kind for Pavels Stolcers

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ventspils lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Igors Bulvitis signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Igors Bulvitis and Ventspils agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Ventspils

Harald Martin Hauso 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Ventspils

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

One of our own: Alvis Ikaunieks joins the Ventspils first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alvis Ikaunieks is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Gatis Oss joins the Ventspils first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gatis Oss is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Ventspils promote Eduards Tarasovs from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eduards Tarasovs has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Alvis Jagodinskis joins the Ventspils first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alvis Jagodinskis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

  • Boardroom Ventspils turn down the training-ground plan
  • Boardroom Ventspils keep producing them
60 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 15 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Harald Martin Hauso 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

A move Kakha Kobiashvili would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kakha Kobiashvili is living that version at Ventspils, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief

59 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Olegs Rugins is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ventspils is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Lachlan Middleton wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Ventspils know it.

Loan watch

Olegs Bulvitis counts the days

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

Squad

Kaspars Gabovs has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ventspils will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Chovanie Amatkarijo has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Chovanie Amatkarijo keeps the shirt for now, at Ventspils's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

58 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 29 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Loan watch

Kaspars Kamess has seen enough of Daugavpils

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Ventspils, and 0 appearances in 33 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Pavels Oss 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

5 new faces, and Ventspils are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

A season on the outside for Lazar Balević

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Ventspils has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

Market

Gatis Gabovs leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Gatis Gabovs leaves Ventspils the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

57 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 36 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Ventspils up to position 3

19 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Axel Aamodt gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Axel Aamodt has just signed for Ventspils, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Tempers go at Ventspils

Igors Bulvitis 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

Axel Aamodt signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Axel Aamodt and Ventspils agree another 3 years.

Loan watch

Kaspars Rugins has seen enough of Daugavpils

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Ventspils, and 0 appearances in 33 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

56 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kristaps Ikaunieks damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 43 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A move Breki Freyr Ágústsson would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Breki Freyr Ágústsson is living that version at Ventspils, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Harald Martin Hauso 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

Ventspils buy the years ahead of Breki Freyr Ágústsson

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

Lazar Balević arrives on loan

Ventspils have taken Lazar Balević on loan from Napredak — cover where cover was needed.

In brief

55 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kristaps Ikaunieks

25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ventspils lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 50 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

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

Tempers go at Ventspils

Harald Martin Hauso 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.

Loan watch

Olegs Bulvitis counts the days

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

Market

Metta/LU are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Ventspils will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

54 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kristaps Ikaunieks damages knee ligaments — 33 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 33 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

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 57 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Igors Bulvitis 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

Metta/LU join the queue for Eduards Fertovs

Add another name to the list: Metta/LU have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Eduards Fertovs. The answer from Ventspils has not changed — yet.

Squad

Lachlan Middleton stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lachlan Middleton and Ventspils agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Loan watch

Kaspars Kamess 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.

In brief

53 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kristaps Ikaunieks damages knee ligaments — 40 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 40 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

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 64 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Ventspils are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 19 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

In brief

52 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Vitalijs Rugins damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 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

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 71 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Marcis Jurkovskis keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ventspils may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

In brief

51 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 78 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Kaspars Gabovs keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ventspils may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Ventspils turn down Metta/LU for Eduards Fertovs

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Ventspils

Dmitriy Tokarev 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.

Loan watch

Olegs Bulvitis counts the days

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

Market

Metta/LU are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Ventspils will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

50 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 85 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

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.

Market

Metta/LU join the queue for Eduards Fertovs

Add another name to the list: Metta/LU have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Eduards Fertovs. The answer from Ventspils has not changed — yet.

In brief

49 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 94 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

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.

Squad

Lourenço Teixeira: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ventspils have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

In brief

48 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 101 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Olegs Rugins 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

Harald Martin Hauso 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.

In brief

47 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pavels Stolcers breaks a bone — 108 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 108 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

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

Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igors Bulvitis 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

Kaspars Gabovs 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.

Loan watch

Olegs Bulvitis wants to come home

“I did not go to Liepaja to sit and watch. I want to come back to Ventspils and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 23 matches say the rest.

Squad

This league is too small for Patrik Vydra

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