The Daugavpils Gazette
Match6 Mar 2027
Daugavpils win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Jelgava will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Víctor Mañón signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Víctor Mañón commits to Daugavpils for another 2 years.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Daugavpils
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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Daniel Kivinda 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Wilson Barrios 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Luis Chávez sends Daugavpils past Jelgava
It finished 2‑1, and it was Luis Chávez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Daugavpils.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Daugavpils
Shunsuke Murakami 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.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
The crowd has taken to Joel Yakubu
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market8 Mar 2027
Davis Dubra steps up from the Daugavpils academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Davis Dubra has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Marcis Cauna joins the Daugavpils first team
- Market One of our own: Kristaps Cauna joins the Daugavpils first team
- Market One of our own: Davis Vanins joins the Daugavpils first team