Valdis Pultraks [SEP] position played on team / speciality
Valdis Pultraks
Valdis Pultraks (1922-1972) was a Latvian football goalkeeper, one of the most known Latvian footballers of the early post-World War II era.
At the age of just 14 Pultraks already played for FK Ausma from Auce in the Latvian Cup quarterfinals. Until the mid-1940s in addition to football Pultraks actively participated in athletics events - even in 1947 when he already played for FK Dinamo Rīga he won the bronze medal at the Latvian athletics championship in 100 meter run. His first professional football team was
defender Kārlis Tīls and with one of the best former Olimpija players Ernests Ziņģis in attack the team won its first Latvian title. Both Valdis Pultraks and Voldemārs Sudmalis were in the squad. Daugava again won the title again in 1947 and the squad included Miervaldis Drāznieks who went on to score 160 goals in the Latvian league. Daugava Liepāja also won the Latvian Cup in 1946 and 1947.
Dinamo Liepāja did not play in the Latvian top league. However in 1948 Dinamo won the Latvian Cup with future Liepāja player Žanis Zviedris in