Kaspars Bulvitis

Right Midfielder - Jelgava
27 Mar 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Kaspars Bulvitis

81 Edition

The Jelgava Sentinel

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Svante Karlsson 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 Jelgava can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Skonto come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Evgeniy Karpovich 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 Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
43 Edition

The Jelgava Sentinel

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Jelgava's wait for a win

13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Jelgava has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Janis Oss 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 Jelgava can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Igors Bulvitis: 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.” Jelgava have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

A bad afternoon for Jelgava against Liepaja

3‑5 to Liepaja, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Tempers go at Jelgava

Aleksandrs Vanins 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

The manager makes an example of Evgeniy Karpovich

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

One of those days for Kaspars Bulvitis

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.43, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Aleksandrs Vanins lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Olegs Kamess

Marked 5.36, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

39 Edition

The Jelgava Sentinel

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Jelgava

9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Janis Oss 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 Jelgava can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Aleksandrs Vanins

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Aleksandrs Vanins signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aleksandrs Vanins commits to Jelgava for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Jelgava

Evgeniy Karpovich 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

Jelgava come up short against Daugavpils

Daugavpils left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Kaspars Bulvitis runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

One of those days for Marcis Tarasovs

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.51, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Radosław Szafrański 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.

In brief

33 Edition

The Jelgava Sentinel

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Evgeniy Karpovich 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 Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Marcis Jurkovskis

Marked 8.78 — 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.

Loan watch

Aleksandrs Jurkovskis counts the days

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

Match

Marcis Jurkovskis rescues a point for Jelgava

It needed Marcis Jurkovskis to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Metta/LU, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kaspars Bulvitis

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marcis Rugins

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief