The Ventspils Gazette
Squad6 Mar 2028
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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
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.
Market6 Mar 2028
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.
Market6 Mar 2028
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.
Market6 Mar 2028
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.
Market6 Mar 2028
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.