Alfrēds Verners

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Alfrēds Verners
Personnel
birthday January 1, 1912
place of birth Riga ,  Russian Empire
date of death December 31, 1973
Place of death United States
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1930-1933 Union Riga
1934 Cincinnati Kickers
1935-1940 Rigas Vanderer
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1931-1937 Latvia 19 (5)
1 Only league games are given.

Alfrēds Verners , born in Alfred Werners (born January 1, 1912 in Riga , † December 31, 1973 in the United States ) was a Latvian football and ice hockey player of German-Baltic origin.

Career

Alfrēds Verners played for the German-Baltic club Union Riga until 1935 , both in the football team and in the ice hockey team. He then worked for Rigas Vanderer , founded by the British .

In June 1931 Verners made his debut in the Latvian national football team against Lithuania . With the selection of Latvia he took in the years 1935 , 1936 and 1937 at the Baltic Cup in part. He won the title twice with the national team. Verners also took part with the team in qualifying for the 1938 World Cup in France . For the national soccer team of Latvia Alfrēds Verners came to a total of 19 missions, in which he scored 5 goals.

For the national ice hockey team he played the first game in the history of the national team of Latvia when on February 27, 1932 in Riga Lithuania was defeated 3-0. In addition to Verners, Herberts Kušķis , Herberts Keslers , Indriķis Reinbahs , Roberts Bluķis , Ādolfs Petrovskis , Johans Skadiņš , Leonīds Vedējs and Valentīns Volframs were on the ice.

successes

In football with Latvia:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mazi, bet ņipri. sporto.lv, accessed on September 21, 2016 (Latvian).
personal data
SURNAME Verners, Alfrēds
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werners, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1973
Place of death United States