Latvia national under-21 football team

European national under-21 football team
Name = Latvia Under-21
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Association = Latvian Football Federation
Coach = flagicon|Latvia Genādijs Šitiks (since 2007)
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Latvia's national Under-21 football team, also known as Latvia Under-21s or Latvia U-21s, is considered to be the feeder team for the Latvia national football team.

This team is for Latvian players aged 21 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-21 Football Championship campaign, so players can be, and often are, up to 23 years old. Also in existence are teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s. As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, as Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs and Aleksejs Višņakovs have done recently. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible).

Coaching Staff

Current players

Players born in 1986 or later are eligible for the 2007-09 UEFA European U-21 Championship, players born in 1988 or later are eligible for the 2009-11 UEFA European U-21 Championship, and so on. The Under-19 team will be the most obvious source of the next crop of Under-21s.

See also

* European Under-21 Football Championship
* Latvia (Senior) team

External links

* [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/Under21 Uefa Under-21 website] Contains full results archive
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablese/europe-u21.html The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation] Contains full record of U-21 Championship hosts and additional statistics, such as the Group Winners table for the 1998 qualifiers.