Roberts Pakalns

Roberts Pakalns (7 November 1911 17 May 1986) was a Latvian footballer and football manager, a three-time champion of Latvia.

Roberts Pakalns
Personal information
Date of birth (1911-11-07)7 November 1911
Place of birth Riga, Russian Empire
Date of death 17 May 1986(1986-05-17) (aged 74)
Place of death Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1929–1940 ASK Riga
1940 RDKA Riga
1941 Spartaks Rīga
1941 Spars Rīga
1942–1944 ASK Riga
1945–1947 FK Dinamo Riga
1948 Daugava Rīga
International career
1935–1940 Latvia 8 (1)
Managerial career
1949–1956 VEF Rīga
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Biography

Roberts Pakalns spent almost his entire football career with ASK Riga. He started regularly appearing in the senior squad in 1929 and played until the club's dissolution in 1940. During these years Pakalns won one Latvian Higher League title (in 1932)[1] and won the Latvian Cup in 1943. In between 1935 and 1940 Pakalns played 8 international matches for Latvia scoring one goal.

When ASK Riga as a former Latvian army sports club was disbanded in 1940, Pakalns joined the newly founded RDKA Riga. During World War II he also played with Spartaks Rīga and Spars Riga. After the war Pakalns played with FK Dinamo Rīga first in the Latvian higher league, then – in the Soviet league, in 1948 he played with Daugava Rīga. From 1949 to 1956 Pakalns was the coach of VEF Rīga which he led to the Latvian Cup in 1956.

Pakalns also played ice hockey and bandy. In the former he was a five-time champion of Latvia as a member of the ASK Riga hockey squad, in the latter – a two-time champion of Latvia. Pakalns was also the first captain of the newly founded Dinamo Riga ice hockey team in 1946.

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