Ādolfs Sīmanis [SEP] member of sports team
Ādolfs Sīmanis
Ādolfs Sīmanis (March 11, 1909 – September 1979) was a Latvian football defender, the most long-time player with Riga Vanderer.
Biography.
Sīmanis came from the Latvian countryside and when he joined the newly founder Riga Vanderer football club, the club coach considered him too slow and to heavyweight in order to become a good footballer, however due to intensive work in training he soon became an irreplaceable member of the Vanderer side for which he already played in the club's first ever official match
, Strautmanis, Katlaps, Jūlijs Lindenbergs (a former national team goalkeeper) were tried but none of them proved to be good enough. That changed in 1936 when Jānis Bebris from Union Riga joined the club, thus filling the weakest position in the Vanderer squad. The best goalscorers for RV in the second half of the 1930s were Hugo Vītols and Alfrēds Verners, Hermanis Jēnihs and Alberts Šeibelis (the latter spent a couple years with V. Ķuze before it was disbanded. The most long-lasting member of Vanderer was Ādolfs Sīmanis