Jurijs Andrejevs (born 16 January 1957 in

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 ...

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

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) is a former

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who is currently the sporting director of

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. Previously he was the manager of the team but was released in 2008 after an unsuccessful season. He was the manager of Latvia national team from 2004 to 2007, having succeeded

Aleksandrs Starkovs Aleksandrs Starkovs (born 26 July 1955) is a Latvian football coach and a former player. Most recently he coached FK Liepāja. Starkovs has managed clubs such as Spartak Moscow in Russia, FK Baku in Azerbaijan and Skonto FC in Latvia. He had ...

in December 2004.

Club career

Andrejevs played for a number of football clubs in

. He started his career with Daugava Rīga. He also played for

FK Jūrnieks FK Jūrnieks is a Latvian football club based in Riga. It became defunct in 1997. In 2017, the club got reinstated in Latvia's Second League. History Most of football clubs in the Soviet Union were attached to factories and the footballers wer ...

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, Celtnieks Rīga, Alfa and Enerģija Rīga. He was champion with Soviet Latvia's football team FK Alfa in 1985.

Managerial career

Club

Andrejevs has worked with FK Daugava Rīga and

FK Pārdaugava FK Pārdaugava was a Latvian football club based in Riga. It was founded in 1984 as Daugava-RVR and became defunct in 1995. In 1991 it replaced the bankrupt FC Daugava Riga and played in the Soviet First League. It completed the 1991 season ...

. He was manager of

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club Skonto from 2004 until 2005. He was assistant manager under then manager,

and when he moved to

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to manage Spartak Moscow in September 2004, Andrejevs was promoted to manager. On 11 November Skonto claimed the Virslīga title, for the 14th consecutive season, a world record. After Skonto lost 6–0 to Macedonian club, Rabotnički, in the 2005 Champions League First qualifying round, he resigned from the post and was replaced by English manager,

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. After he was sacked as Latvia manager earlier in the year, he worked as Sporting Director at Liepājas Metalurgs and he was appointed manager in November 2007 following the resignation of Benjaminas Zelkevičius at the end of the 2007 Virslīga season, in which the club had finished second behind

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. Andrejevs signed a two-year contract with the club and was released in 2008.

Latvia

Andrejevs has been Latvian national manager at various levels, including Under-16, Under-18 and Under-21. He coached a number of famous Latvian players, when he was with the U-21 team, including

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, Viktors Dobrecovs, Aleksandrs Isakovs, Ģirts Karlsons, Vladimirs Koļesņičenko, Aleksandrs Koliņko, Igors Korabļovs, Viktors Morozs,

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, Genādijs Soloņicins,

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and

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. He started working with the Latvia national team in 2001 as assistant to Aleksandrs Starkovs. He was assistant manager when Latvia qualified for and played in

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, held in

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. When Starkovs moved to Russia in 2004 with Spartak Moscow he also gave up his post as Latvia manager on 17 November and Andrejevs was promoted in his place by the

Latvia lost the first match with him in charge to

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, 3–2, in

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. However, Andrejevs had used the match to give fringe squad players a chance to play. Latvia won the

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in 2005. He resigned as Latvia manager following a 1–0 defeat on 28 March 2007 to

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in a

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qualifying match. It was only Liechtensteins second ever win in the competition Some of the players who made their international debut when he was manager of the national team were – Deniss Romanovs,

Antons Jemeļins Antons Jemeļins (born 19 February 1984 in Liepāja) is a Latvian footballer, who played as a centre-back. Club career Jemeļins started his career with Liepājas Metalurgs in 2004. He scored one goal in the 2005 Virslīga season when the club ...

, Aleksejs Višņakovs, Oskars Kļava,

Kaspars Gorkšs Kaspars Gorkšs (born 6 November 1981) is a Latvian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Gorkšs was also the captain of the Latvian national team. From 2018 to 2019 Gorkšs served as president of the Latvian Football Fed ...

, Deniss Kačanovs and Deniss Ivanovs.

Honours

Club

*FK Alfa **Latvian league Champion (1): 1985

Managerial

*Skonto **

champion (1): 2004 **

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finalist (1): 2004 ** Livonia Cup winners (2): 2004, 2005 * Latvia national team **

(1): 2005

References

External links

Official Liepājas Metalurgs website
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