Harijs Balcers was a Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

n footballer

Football (soccer)

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, a two-time champion of Latvia in the 1960s.

Balcers was the son of famous Liepāja

Liepaja

Liepāja ; ), is a republican city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea directly at 21°E. It is the largest city in the Kurzeme Region of Latvia, the third largest city in Latvia after Riga and Daugavpils and an important ice-free port...

 basketball

Basketball

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 player Lilija Balcere and Olimpija Liepāja

Olimpija Liepaja

Olimpija Liepāja was Latvian football club that in the 1920-1930s was one of the strongest in Latvia and with which played many Latvia national football team footballers. It was from the city of Liepāja.-History:...

 sportsman Harijs Lēvenšteins

Harijs Levenšteins

Harijs Lēvenšteins was a Latvian footballer and boxer from Liepāja. He was the only sportsman that was the champion of Latvia in both boxing and football. He was a member of Olimpija Liepāja club in both of these sports, in football he won the Latvian league in 1938 and 1939. Lēvenšteins was...

. He started his football career during military service in Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

 playing with ASK Riga

FK ASK

FK ASK Riga was a Latvian football club of the Latvian army, founded in 1923. In the 1920s and 1930s it was one of the leading clubs in Latvia. In 1940s it was disbanded, a new football club of the Soviet army was created in Riga under the name FK AVN, later AVN was renamed to ASK...

 and winning two Latvian top league titles in 1961 and 1962. In 1963 he returned to his native Liepāja where he joined LMR Liepāja

LMR Liepaja

LMR Liepāja was a Latvian football club that in the early 1960s won the Latvian Cup two years in a row and was then disbanded because of a disciplinary decision.-Club history:...

 and won the Latvian Football Cup

Latvian football Cup

The Latvian Football Cup is the main "knockout" cup competition in Latvian football. It started in 1937 replacing the previous knockout tournament – Riga Football Cup.The competition is a knockout tournament....

 in 1963. Soon after that the club was disqualified for disciplinary reasons and so were its players including Balcers.

As he wasn't allowed to play in the top league in 1964 Balcers played only in local tournaments in Liepāja but in 1965 he moved to Aizpute

Aizpute

Aizpute is a town in western Latvia's Aizpute municipality in the valley of Tebra River, northeast of Liepāja.-History:It was founded as the castle of Hasenpoth of a German Crusaders order in 1248 and was granted the Magdeburg rights in 1378....

 and joined Kurzeme Aizpute - a club that was playing its second season in the top Latvian league. After retiring from football Balcers worked in the LMR factory in Liepāja. He died in 2002.