Ronalds Žagars

Ronalds Žagars (born 1950 in Ventspils) is a former Latvian football goalkeeper who played for Zvejnieks Liepāja and FK Daugava Rīga.

Playing biography

Žagars was a tall and powerful goalkeeper. He first played in Liepāja but was offered to join Daugava Rīga in the first Soviet league. in 1969. Over the first two seasons with Daugava he played only 12 matches and had to return to Zvejnieks Liepāja.^[1] In 1974 he was invited to Daugava again for the best season of his career - he played almost half of the teams matches (23) and had nearly the same amount of time in goal as his more famous colleague Laimonis Laizāns. But in the next 3 seasons he never played more than 10 matches and had to sit on the bench behind Aleksandrs Kulakovs.

In 1977 at the age of 27 Žagars left Daugava and joined Enerģija Rīga with which he won the Latvian league in 1977.

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