Raimonds Laizāns [SEP] date of birth
Raimonds Laizāns
Raimonds Laizāns (born 5 August 1964 in Riga) is a former Latvian football goalkeeper who played for Latvia national football team in the 1990s.
Club playing career.
Raimonds Laizāns started playing football at the Daugava sports school in Riga at the age of 13. In 1980 with Progress Rīga he won the silver medals of the Latvian league and in 1983 debuted for the strongest Latvian club - Daugava Rīga. However his career with Daugava never really got off - Aleksandrs Kulakovs was in his prime years and the
chance to play in friendlies and in the Baltic Cup.
Laizāns last match for Latvia came in 1998 as it lost 0:3 in a friendly game against Tunisia. In total he made 31 international appearances for Latvia.
After retiring from active football Laizāns took over the youth squad of Skonto FC, and as of January 2008 he is the chairman of JFK Olimps Rīga.
Raimonds Laizāns is not a relative of another former Daugava Rīga goalkeeper Laimonis Laizāns and of Latvia international footballer Juris Laizāns.
Honours.
- Champion