Arkādijs Pavlovs

Infobox Football biography
playername= Arkādijs Pavlovs
fullname = Arkādijs Pavlovs
nickname = Arkaša
dateofbirth = birth date|1903|02|02
cityofbirth = Riga
countryofbirth = Russian Empire
dateofdeath = death date and age|1960|6|26|1903|2|2
cityofdeath = Riga
countryofdeath = Latvia
position = Forward
youthyears = Sirena
Orient
youthclubs =
years = 1922
1923
1924-1934
1935-1939
clubs = Marss Riga
Amatieris
RFK
Kružoks Riga
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 1924–1933
nationalteam = Latvia
nationalcaps(goals) = 037 (9)

Arkādijs Pavlovs (February 2, 1903 in Riga - June 26, 1960 in Riga) [ [http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/arkadijs-pavlovs-1.html Arkādijs Pavlovs biography] ] was a Latvian footballer and football manager, a five-time champion of Latvia.

Biography

Pavlovs began playing football while in refuge during World War I in Dnipropetrovsk. After returning to Latvia he played with Marss Riga and Amatieris for a short period but in 1924 Pavlovs joined the most important club of his career - RFK. Playing with RFK Pavlovs won five Latvian Higher League titles and became a two-time winner of the Riga Football Cup. From 1924 to 1933 he played for the Latvia national football team in total making 37 appearances and scoring 9 goals . Palvovs was a member of the Latvian football team at the 1924 Summer Olympics [ [http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text/html&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP/1936/01/02&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00100&PageLabel=1 Latvia footballers to participate at the Berlin Olympic games?] ] . Pavlovs scored the first goal in the history of the Baltic Cup and won the first tournament with Latvia in 1928 [ [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesb/baltic-overview.html Baltic Cup overview] ] .

After the 1934 football season Pavlovs joined the lower league club Kružoks Riga with which he played until 1939. In 1938 Pavlovs was a member of the Kružoks squad that earned promotion to the Latvian Higher League [ [http://www.periodika.lv/Default/Skins/LatviaArchL/Client.asp?Skin=LatviaArchL&enter=true&AW=1221469294015&AppName=2 Kružoks - first league champion] ] . In Kružoks Palvovs was the most experienced footballer and the informal leader of the club both on the field and off it.

Honours

Club Titles

*Latvian Higher League: 1924, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1931 (RFK)
*Riga Football Cup: 1924, 1925 (RFK)

National Team
*Baltic Cup: 1928

References