Igors Stepanovs

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Igors Stepanovs
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Igors Stepanovs (2011)
Personnel
birthday January 21, 1976
place of birth Ogre ,  Soviet Union
size 192 cm
position Central defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-2000 Riga discount 158 (13)
2000-2004 Arsenal FC 17 0(0)
2003-2004 →  KSK Beveren  (loan) 21 0(0)
2004-2006 Grasshopper Club Zurich 50 0(0)
2006 FK Jūrmala 9 0(0)
2007-2008 Esbjerg fB 17 0(0)
2008 Shinnik Yaroslavl 2 0(0)
2008-2009 JFK Olimps 7 0(0)
2010-2011 FK Jūrmala 25 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995-2011 Latvia 100 (4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2012-2018 Latvia U-17
2017-2018 Latvia U-18
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

Igors Stepanovs (born January 21, 1976 in Ogre , Soviet Union , today Latvia ; Russian Игорь Николаевич Степанов , Igor Nikolajewitsch Stepanow ) is a former Latvian football player and today's coach .

Career

Stepanovs began his football career with Skonto Riga , where he played from 1995 to 2000. Then Arsenal coach Arsène Wenger signed the central defender to replace the injured Tony Adams . In London , however, he did not make the breakthrough and only came on two missions in the three seasons, so that he was loaned to KSK Beveren in Belgium for the 2003/04 season . After just one season, Igors Stapanovs then moved to Grasshopper Club Zurich , where he was a regular player for two seasons and also played seven UEFA Cup games. Towards the end of the second season he was released after an assault that earned him four games suspension. He then moved to the 2006/07 season for the Latvian first division club FK Jūrmala and six months later, in January 2007, to Denmark for Esbjerg fB . Another club change in March 2008 to the Russian club Schinnik Yaroslavl was followed only four months later by another transfer back to his Latvian homeland to FK Olimps Riga . In early 2010 he returned to Jūrmala, where he ended his career in 2011.

Igors Stepanovs played 99 times for the Latvian national team from 1995 to 2009 and scored four goals. He took part in the 2004 European Championship , where Latvia was eliminated in the preliminary round. The only point win was achieved by the Latvians in the 0-0 win against Germany, where Stepanovs shone with strong defensive performances.

On August 10, 2011, he played his 100th international match, but only played the first 5 minutes of the game against Finland.

successes

  • Latvian champion with discount Riga: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
  • Latvian cup winners with discount Riga: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000
  • Latvian Footballer of the Year 2005

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Match report: Latvia - Finland (10 August 2011) in the database of weltfussball.de
  2. ↑ Igora Stepanova atvadu spēlē Latvijas izlase piedzīvo zaudējumu pret Somiju
predecessor Office successor
Māris Verpakovskis Latvian Footballer of the Year
2005 		Aleksandrs Koliņko
personal data
SURNAME Stepanovs, Igors
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Ogre , Latvian SSR