Aleksandrs Ābrams (30 January 1904 – 3 February 1958) was a

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n football forward who used to play with

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, the most successful Latvian football club of the 1920s and 1930s.

Club playing career

The first club that Ābrams played with was Amatieris for which he played in 1923.Reserves squad of Latvia national football team in 1932 In 1924 along with two other notable Amatieris footballers –

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and

Arnolds Tauriņš Arnolds Tauriņš (10 August 1905 – 20 August 1984 in Milwaukee) was a Latvian footballer and a seven-time champion of Latvia in the 1920s-1930s. Biography For most of his career Tauriņš played with RFK, but he started playing with Amati ...

Ābrams joined RFK as it went on to its first Latvian league title. Ābrams went on to winning two more league titles with RFK in 1925 and 1926. At the end of the 1927 season Ābrams was one of several RFK main squad footballers (together with

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, Česlavs Stančiks and others) to leave the team for the newly founded Riga Vanderer club which became a strong rival for RFK in the following years (RFK was usually the stronger side on field, but there was always a high tension surrounding the derby between these two sides). In 1928 RV with Ābrams as one its key players won the

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the B ...

Class B tournament to progress to Class A which it won the following year. In 1930 Ābrams returned together with Vanderer to the top tier of Latvian football, winning the bronze medals of Virslīga. He retired from top-level football in 1931. In later years Ābrams played in football tournaments for clerks as a member of the squad of the Latvian customs office.

National team playing career

Ābrams played 8 international matches for

Latvia national football team The Latvia national football team ( lv, Latvijas futbola izlase) represents Latvia in international football and is controlled by the Latvian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Latvia. They have never qualified for the FI ...

in the period from 1924 to 1927, scoring two goals – in friendly matches against

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and Lithuania in 1924. He played for Latvia for the last time on 29 May 1927 as Latvia suffered a devastating 0–12 loss against Sweden.

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