Ēriks Raisters

Football manager infobox
playername = Ēriks Raisters


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dateofbirth = birth date|1913|11|6|mf=y
cityofbirth = Riga
dateofdeath = death date and age|1942|5|25|1913|11|6
countryofbirth = Russian Empire
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position = Striker
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years = 1931-1933
1934-1940
1941
clubs = JKS Riga
RFK
Dynamo Minsk
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nationalyears = 1934-1940
nationalteam = Latvia
nationalcaps(goals) = 27 (6)
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Ēriks Raisters (November 26, 1913 - May 25, 1942) was a Latvian right-wing football forward who played 27 international matches for Latvia between 1934 and 1940.

Club playing career

Raisters' first senior club was JKS Riga, a club most known for raising young players which always left it for bigger and stronger sides. Raisters joined the side in 1931 and in his first year the club earned promotion back to the Latvian Higher League. Raisters played two more years for JKS as it finished 5th in Virsliga both years and before the 1934 he joined the most titled Latvian club - RFK [ [http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text/html&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP/1933/09/18&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00801&PageLabel=8 Futbolistu Jurģi sākušies] ] for which he played until 1940. Over the years he played with RFK Raisters won three Latvian league titles and the Latvian Cup two times (in 1937 and 1939). [Miķelis Rubenis - History of Latvian football]

After Latvia was taken over by the Soviet Union and the formers sports clubs were disbanded Raisters was selected to play for FK Dinamo Riga in 1940, the next year he played for Dynamo Minsk. Raisters died on May 25, 1942 on the front.

National team playing career

Raisters made his international début for Latvia on June 10, 1934 in a friendly match against Lithuania in Kaunas. However it was the single match he played for Latvia in 1934, he became a regular at the national team only in the following year. In his second match for Latvia (against Lithuania once again) on May 30, 1935 Raisters scored his first goal for the country. In total he played 4 matches for Latvia in 1935, two in 1936, eight in 1937, eight in 1938, three in 1939 and one in 1940 - in the last international match for Latvia before 1992. With 27 appearances (and six scored goals) for Latvia national football team Raisters was the 11th most capped footballer in the pre-war country.

Honours

Club Titles
*Latvian Higher League: 1934, 1935, 1940 (RFK)
*Latvian Cup: 1937, 1939

International Titles
*Baltic Cup: 1936, 1937

Caps

*27 caps for Latvia (6 goals)

References