Jurijs Andrejevs
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Jurijs Andrejevs is a former footballer who is currently the sporting director of Liepājas Metalurgs.
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
in December 2004.
. He started his career with Daugava Rīga
. He also played for FK Jūrnieks
, Progress, Celtnieks Rīga
, Alfa
and Enerģija Rīga
. He was champion with Soviet Latvia's football team FK Alfa in 1985.
and FK Pārdaugava. He was manager of Virslīga
club Skonto
from 2004 until 2005. He was assistant manager under then manager, Aleksandrs Starkovs
and when he moved to Russia
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, Paul Ashworth. 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 FK Ventspils
. Andrejevs signed a two year contract with the club and was released in 2008.
.
He coached a number of famous Latvian players, when he was with the U-21 team, including Oļegs Blagonadeždins
, Imants Bleidelis
, Viktors Dobrecovs
, Aleksandrs Isakovs
, Ģirts Karlsons
, Vladimirs Koļesņičenko
, Aleksandrs Koļinko
, Igors Korabļovs
, Viktors Morozs
, Marian Pahars
, Andrejs Prohorenkovs
, Andrejs Rubins
, Genādijs Soloņicins
, Igors Stepanovs
, Māris Verpakovskis
and Dzintars Zirnis
.
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 Euro 2004, held in Portugal
. 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 Latvian Football Federation
Latvia lost the first match with him in charge to Oman
, 3-2, in Bahrain
. However, Andrejevs had used the match to give fringe squad players a chance to play. Latvia won the King's Cup
in Thailand
in 2005. He resigned as Latvia manager following a 1-0 defeat on 28 March 2007 to Liechenstein
in a Euro 2008 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
, Aleksejs Višņakovs
, Oskars Kļava
, Kaspars Gorkšs
, Deniss Kačanovs
and Deniss Ivanovs
.
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
Latvia national football team
The Latvian national football team is controlled by the Latvian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Latvia and represents the country in international football competitions, such as the World Cup and the European Championships. So far, they have never qualified for a FIFA World...
from 2004 to 2007, having succeeded Aleksandrs Starkovs
Aleksandrs Starkovs
Aleksandrs Starkovs is a Latvian football coach and a former footballer. Starkovs is currently in his second spell as manager of the Latvian national team and is also the manager of FK Baku, having previously managed clubs such as Spartak Moscow in Russia and Skonto FC in Latvia.-Playing...
in December 2004.
Club career
Andrejevs played for a number of football clubs in RigaRiga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...
. He started his career with Daugava Rīga
FK Daugava Riga
Previously FK Daugava 90 is a Latvian football club located in Riga and currently playing in Latvian First League. Formerly under the name Daugava the team was the headliner of Latvian football where played most of the countries top players but with the collapse of the Soviet Union the team ceased...
. He also played for FK Jūrnieks
FK Jurnieks
FK Jūrnieks was a Latvian football club based in Riga. It became defunct in 1997.-History:Most of football clubs in the Soviet Union were attached to factories and the footballers were officially factory workers...
, Progress, Celtnieks Rīga
Celtnieks Riga
Celtnieks Rīga was a Latvian football club that won the Latvian Cup 3 times.-History:Celtnieks made its debut in the Latvian league in 1978. In the 1980s it was one of the strongest clubs in the Latvian league as it finished second in the league in four seasons and for three years in a row it won...
, Alfa
Elektrons Riga
Elektrons Rīga was a Latvian football club from Riga that was one of the leading clubs in the Latvian league in 1970s and 1980s.-History:...
and Enerģija Rīga
Energija Riga
Enerģija Rīga was a Soviet Latvian football club from Riga, a four-time winner of the Latvian league. It went bankrupt together with the factory that supported it in early 1990s.-History:...
. He was champion with Soviet Latvia's football team FK Alfa in 1985.
Club
Andrejevs has worked with FK Daugava RīgaFK Daugava Riga
Previously FK Daugava 90 is a Latvian football club located in Riga and currently playing in Latvian First League. Formerly under the name Daugava the team was the headliner of Latvian football where played most of the countries top players but with the collapse of the Soviet Union the team ceased...
and FK Pārdaugava. He was manager of Virslīga
Virsliga
-Past Virslīga winners:-Top scorers:-Riga football league winners:* 1910 Union Riga* 1911 British FC Riga* 1912 Union Riga* 1913 British FC Riga* 1914 British FC Riga* 1915 British FC Riga-Champions of Latvia before Virslīga:* 1922 Ķeizarmežs...
club Skonto
Skonto FC
Skonto FC is a Latvian football club, founded in 1991. The club plays at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 14 seasons of the league's existence , and often provides the core of the Latvia national football team...
from 2004 until 2005. He was assistant manager under then manager, Aleksandrs Starkovs
Aleksandrs Starkovs
Aleksandrs Starkovs is a Latvian football coach and a former footballer. Starkovs is currently in his second spell as manager of the Latvian national team and is also the manager of FK Baku, having previously managed clubs such as Spartak Moscow in Russia and Skonto FC in Latvia.-Playing...
and when he moved to Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
to manage Spartak Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow is a Russian football club from Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships and 9 of 19 Russian championships they are one of the country's most successful clubs. They have also won the Soviet Cup 10 times and the Russian Cup 3 times...
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
FK Rabotnicki
FK Rabotnički is a football club that plays at the Philip II Arena in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. They currently compete in the Macedonian First League.-History:...
, in the 2005 Champions League
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
First qualifying round, he resigned from the post and was replaced by English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
manager, Paul Ashworth. 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
Benjaminas Zelkevicius
Benjaminas Zelkevičius is a football coach and a former striker from Lithuania. Zelkevičius has been manager of the Lithuania national football team on three separate occasions: from 1990–1991, 1995–1997, and 2001–2002...
at the end of the 2007 Virslīga season, in which the club had finished second behind FK Ventspils
FK Ventspils
FK Ventspils is a Latvian football club, based at Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions in Ventspils city and is one of the most popular football clubs in the country. FK Ventspils plays in the Latvian Virsliga. They are the current champions of the tournament....
. 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-21Latvia national under-21 football team
The Latvia national under-21 football team represents the under-21s of Latvia and is controlled by the Latvian Football Federation, the governing body of football in Latvia. The team competes in the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years...
.
He coached a number of famous Latvian players, when he was with the U-21 team, including Oļegs Blagonadeždins
Olegs Blagonadeždins
Oļegs Blagonadeždins is a former football defender from Latvia. As of October 2005 he has played 70 international matches and scored 2 goals for the Latvia national team. He debuted in 1992 when the national team was founded, and played at the Euro 2004. He started his career in Pārdaugava, then...
, Imants Bleidelis
Imants Bleidelis
Imants Bleidelis is a former football midfielder from Latvia. He last played for FK Liepājas Metalurgs. He has made 106 appearances for the Latvia national team.-Club career:...
, Viktors Dobrecovs
Viktors Dobrecovs
Viktors Dobrecovs is a football striker from Latvia. His current club is FK Liepājas Metalurgs. He is also the coach of Liepājas Metalurgs-2 - the reserve team of Liepājas Metalurgs.-References:**...
, Aleksandrs Isakovs
Aleksandrs Isakovs
Aleksandrs Isakovs is a former football defender from Latvia. He has played 58 international matches for the Latvia national team. He debuted in 1997, and played at the Euro 2004. He started his career in Dinaburg FC, and played for Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod, before joining Latvian champion team...
, Ģirts Karlsons
Girts Karlsons
Ģirts Karlsons is Latvian football striker currently playing for Azerbaijani club FC Inter Baku.-Club career:Karlsons started his career at FK Liepājas Metalurgs in 1998. He spent the next six season with the club...
, Vladimirs Koļesņičenko
Vladimirs Kolesnicenko
Vladimirs Koļesņičenko is a retired footballer from Latvia, currently the commercial director of Skonto Riga.- Career :...
, Aleksandrs Koļinko
Aleksandrs Kolinko
Aleksandrs Koļinko is a professional footballer, currently playing for FC Baltika Kaliningrad in Russian First Division.- Club career :...
, Igors Korabļovs
Igors Korablovs
Igors Korabļovs is a Latvian football defender who currently plays for FB Gulbene-2005.He has also played for clubs like Daugava, FK Ventspils and FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. He played his first match for Latvia national football team in 1998 and participated at Euro 2004.-External links:* *...
, Viktors Morozs
Viktors Morozs
Viktors Morozs is a football midfielder from Latvia, currently playing for PAEEK in the Cypriot Second Division. He also plays for Latvia national football team.Morozs made his debut for Latvia in a match against Azerbaijan on 6 July 2002, but he has not been called up to the national team...
, Marian Pahars
Marian Pahars
Marians Pahars is a Latvian former footballer, currently the manager of Skonto FC. He spent most of his career as a striker at Southampton in the Premier League and with Skonto in Latvia....
, Andrejs Prohorenkovs
Andrejs Prohorenkovs
Andrejs Prohorenkovs is a football striker from Latvia.As of April 2007 he has played 32 international matches and scored 4 goals for the Latvia national team...
, Andrejs Rubins
Andrejs Rubins
Andrejs Rubins is a football midfielder from Latvia. He currently plays for FK Simurq Zaqatala in Azerbaijan. He also plays for the Latvia national team.-Club career:...
, Genādijs Soloņicins
Genadijs Solonicins
Genādijs Soloņicins is a football midfielder from Latvia, currently playing for Liepājas Metalurgs in Latvia.-Club career:Soloņicins played for Liepājas Metalurgs for 12 years, making his debut in 1997...
, Igors Stepanovs
Igors Stepanovs
Igors Nauris Stepanovs is a Latvian football defender, currently playing for FK Jūrmala. As of April 2010 he has played 99 international matches and scored 4 goals for the Latvia national team. He made his debut in 1995, and played at Euro 2004.-Skonto:He started his club career at Skonto-Metāls...
, Māris Verpakovskis
Maris Verpakovskis
Māris Verpakovskis , is a Latvian football forward, currently playing for the Azerbaijan Premier League club FK Baku in Azerbaijan and the Latvia national football team.-Latvia:...
and Dzintars Zirnis
Dzintars Zirnis
Dzintars Zirnis is a Latvian football defender, currently playing for FK Liepājas Metalurgs and the Latvian national team.-Club career:...
.
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 Euro 2004, held in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
. 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 Latvian Football Federation
Latvian Football Federation
The Latvian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Latvia based in the capital, Riga. It organises the Latvian football championship , Latvian Football Cup and the Latvia national football team. LFF became a member of FIFA in 1922, but following Latvia's annexation by the Soviet...
Latvia lost the first match with him in charge to Oman
Oman national football team
The Oman national football team is the national team of Oman. Although the team was officially founded in 1978, the squad was formed long before, and has established a proper football association in only December, 2005...
, 3-2, in Bahrain
Bahrain
' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...
. However, Andrejevs had used the match to give fringe squad players a chance to play. Latvia won the King's Cup
King's Cup
The King's Cup is an international football competition held in Thailand. It has been played annually since 1968, with the exception of 1983, 1985 and 2008. In some years, the competition has featured club or invitational teams as well as international sides....
in Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
in 2005. He resigned as Latvia manager following a 1-0 defeat on 28 March 2007 to Liechenstein
Liechtenstein national football team
The Liechtenstein national football team is the national football team of Liechtenstein and is controlled by the Liechtenstein Football Association. The organisation is known as the Liechtensteiner Fussballverband in German. The team's first match was an unofficial match against Malta in Seoul, a...
in a Euro 2008 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
Deniss Romanovs
Deniss Romanovs is a football goalkeeper from Latvia, currently playing for Cenderawasih FC in Liga Primer Indonesia.Previously he played for Skonto-Metals, FK Valmiera, FK Ventspils and FC Ditton in Latvia, Dinamo Bucharest in Romania, Slavia Prague in Czech Republic and Khazar Lankaran in...
, Antons Jemeļins
Antons Jemelins
Antons Jemeļins is a football defender from Latvia. He currently plays for FK Liepājas Metalurgs.-Club career:...
, Aleksejs Višņakovs
Aleksejs Višnakovs
Aleksejs Višņakovs is a Latvian football midfielder, who currently plays for Cracovia in the Ekstraklasa in Poland.-Latvia:...
, Oskars Kļava
Oskars Klava
Oskars Kļava is a Latvian football defender, currently playing for FC Khimki on loan from FC Anzhi Makhachkala.-Club career:As a youth player Kļava played for FK Liepājas Metalurgs youth team, making his first-team debut in 2002...
, Kaspars Gorkšs
Kaspars Gorkšs
Kaspars Gorkšs is a Latvian footballer who plays for Reading as a defender. He is also a regular with the Latvia national team.-Club career:...
, Deniss Kačanovs
Deniss Kacanovs
Deniss Kačanovs is a football defender from Latvia, currently playing for Persema Malang in Indonesia Premier League.- Club Career :...
and Deniss Ivanovs
Deniss Ivanovs
Deniss Ivanovs is a football defender from Latvia who currently plays for FK Baku in the Azerbaijan Premier League.-Club career:Ivanovs has played all his career at Metalurgs where he made his debut in 2001...
.
Managerial
- Skonto
- VirslīgaVirsliga-Past Virslīga winners:-Top scorers:-Riga football league winners:* 1910 Union Riga* 1911 British FC Riga* 1912 Union Riga* 1913 British FC Riga* 1914 British FC Riga* 1915 British FC Riga-Champions of Latvia before Virslīga:* 1922 Ķeizarmežs...
champion (1): 2004 - Latvian football CupLatvian football CupThe Latvian Football Cup is the main "knockout" cup competition in Latvian football. It started in 1937 replacing the previous knockout tournament – Riga Football Cup.The competition is a knockout tournament....
finalist (1): 2004 - Livonia CupLivonia CupLivonia Cup is a football trophy contested in an annual match in Riga, between the champions of the Estonian and Latvian domestic association football leagues.The current holders of the Livonia Cup are FC Flora Tallinn, who beat Skonto FC.- Finals :...
winners (2): 2004, 2005
- Virslīga
- Latvia national team
- King's CupKing's CupThe King's Cup is an international football competition held in Thailand. It has been played annually since 1968, with the exception of 1983, 1985 and 2008. In some years, the competition has featured club or invitational teams as well as international sides....
(1): 2005
- King's Cup