Kaspars Laizans

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68 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 Nov 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Pikk

103 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.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Kaspars Laizans breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Dobrivoj Rusov is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Ventspils will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

In brief

Back issues
66 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Nov 2027

The knee: Artur Pikk out for 118 days

118 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ventspils lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Artem Babchuk breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad1 Nov 2027

A falling-out at Ventspils

Mihkel Ainsalu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

2 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Timurs Azarovs turns down Ventspils

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Ventspils

Adeyemo Bolaji and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Nikola Knežević

Ventspils asked and Wieczysta Kraków said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market10 Aug 2026

Ventspils promote Eduards Kamess from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eduards Kamess 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Vitalijs Jurkovskis joins the Ventspils first team

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Kaspars Laizans steps up from the Ventspils academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kaspars Laizans 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Ventspils promote Aleksandrs Savalnieks from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aleksandrs Savalnieks 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Mihkel Ainsalu needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Ventspils know which stage they are at.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Dobrivoj Rusov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dobrivoj Rusov and Ventspils agree another 2 years.

In brief