Jevgeņijs Miļevskis

Football player infobox
playername= Jevgeņijs Miļevskis


fullname = Jevgeņijs Miļevskis
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1961|07|15
cityofbirth = Riga
countryofbirth = Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
height = height|meter=1.86
currentclub =
position = Striker (retired)
years = 1980
1981-1984
1984
1985-1988
1989-1991
1991-1994
clubs = FK Progress
FK Daugava Rīga
Spartak Moscow
FK Daugava Rīga
FK Austria Wien
VSE Sankt Pölten
| caps(goals) = 0 ?(22)
0 90 (28)
0 6(0)
0 170(74)
049 (15)
0 93(13)
nationalyears = 1994
nationalteam =Latvia
nationalcaps(goals) = 03 (1)

Jevgeņijs Miļevskis (born July 15, 1961) is a former Latvia football striker of Jewish origin, together with Aleksandrs Starkovs he was the main goal scoring force of FK Daugava Rīga.

In 2006 Miļevskis was selected by the Latvian Football Federation as one of the 11 best Latvian footballers of the first 100 years of football in Latvia [ [http://www.lff.lv/lv/news/2006/12/29/ Latvian top footballers of 2006 and of the century (in Latvian)] ] .

Playing career

Miļevskis started playing under the best Latvian youth football coach Krišs Maisītājs in the Riga football school, later he played with FK Progress under Jānis Skredelis. In 1981 Miļevskis joined Daugava Rīga and with his smart and elegant playing style soon attracted the interest of both fans and specialists. He got invitations to play for several top Soviet clubs including FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Dynamo Moscow and PFC CSKA Moscow but eventually he joined Spartak Moscow. After having played several games for Spartak but not having been selected to participate in European competitions Miļevskis returned to Daugava. In the mid 1980s together with Starkovs Miļevskis made up one of the best attacks in the first Soviet league [Miķelis Rubenis. History of Latvian football, 2000, pp.153-154 (in Latvian)] . For Daugava he scored more than 100 goals in official games [ [http://klisf.info/numeric/index.app?cmd=ln&lang=en&id=539116648433516 Stats in official games] ] .

In 1988 Miļevskis decided to emigrate to USA. However he was contacted by FK Austria Wien officials and played there for two seasons (20 goals in 64 matches). With Austria Wien he became champion of Austrian Bundesliga, won the Austrian Cup and the Austrian Supercup (2 times). His last professional club was VSE Sankt Pölten where he played until 1994 [ [http://www.legioner.kulichki.com/index.php?id=11&lang=en&player=158 Player stats in Austrian clubs] ] .

Miļevskis also played 3 games for Latvia in Euro 1996 qualifiers and scored the single Latvia goal in a 1:3 defeat against Portugal [ [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~nfm24/football/1994e2.html European football results from 1994] ] .

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