Antons Jemeļins (born 19 February 1984 in
Liepāja
Liepāja () (formerly: Libau) is a Administrative divisions of Latvia, state city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea. It is the largest city in the Courland region and the third-largest in the country after Riga and Daugavpils. It is an ...
) is a
Latvia
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n
football
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er, who played as a
centre-back
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Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers ...
.
Club career
Jemeļins started his career with Liepājas Metalurgs in 2004. He scored one goal in the 2005
Virslīga
Latvian Higher League or Virslīga, also known as TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Latvia and the highest level of the Latvian football league system. Organised by the Latvian Football F ...
season when the club beat
FK Rīga
FK Rīga was a Latvian football club based in Riga. They played in the Virslīga, the top division in Latvian football. They played their home games at Latvijas Universitātes Stadions. In 1999, its first year of existence, the club won the La ...
6-0 on 21 September 2005.
[
] He also played for Liepājas Metalurgs reserves in 2005 scoring four goals and
2006 scoring two goals.
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]
International career
Jemeļins has played for
Latvia national under-21 football team
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. He was in the squad for the
matches.
[
] On 2 November 2005 Jemeļins was firstly called up to
Latvia national football team
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by manager by that time manager
Jurijs Andrejevs
Jurijs Andrejevs (born 16 January 1957) is a Latvian former football player and manager who is the sporting director of Riga FC academy. Previously he was the manager of the team but was released in 2008 after an unsuccessful season. He was the ...
for a
friendly match
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against
Belarus
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on 12 November.
[
] In May 2012 Jemeļins was re-called to the national team by the manager
Aleksandrs Starkovs
Aleksandrs Starkovs (born 26 July 1955) is a Latvian football coach and a former footballer who played as a forward. Most recently he coached FK Liepāja.
Starkovs has managed clubs such as Spartak Moscow in Russia, FK Baku in Azerbaijan and ...
for the
Baltic Cup matches in June. Latvia went on to win the tournament but Jemeļins remained an unused substitute during both matches.
Honours
Club
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Virsliga
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champion: (2) 2005, 2009
*
Virsliga
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runner-up: (5) 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011
*
Moldovan National Division
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runner-up: (1) 2014
*
Latvian Cup
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winner (1) 2006
*
Baltic League
The Baltic League (officially known as the Triobet Baltic League) was a Baltic men's football club tournament held four times between the top club sides from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Launched in 2007 inspired by the now defunct Scandinavi ...
champion: (1)
2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
Events
January
* January 1
**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
National team
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Baltic Cup winner (1) 2012
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jemelins, Antons
1984 births
Living people
Footballers from Liepāja
Latvian men's footballers
FK Liepājas Metalurgs players
FK Spartaks Jūrmala players
FC Tiraspol players
FK Atlantas players
FK Ventspils players
FK Liepāja players
Latvian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova
Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova
Expatriate men's footballers in Lithuania
Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania
Latvia men's international footballers
Latvian people of Russian descent
Men's association football defenders