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Latvia

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 goalkeeper who played for Zvejnieks Liepāja and FK Daugava Rīga

FK Daugava Riga

Previously FK Daugava 90 is a Latvian football club located in Riga and currently playing in Latvian First League. Formerly under the name Daugava the team was the headliner of Latvian football where played most of the countries top players but with the collapse of the Soviet Union the team ceased...

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Playing biography

Žagars was a tall and powerful goalkeeper. He first played in 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...

 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. 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

Laimonis Laizans

Laimonis Laizāns is a former Soviet Latvian football goalkeeper who played for FK Daugava Rīga and Torpedo Moscow. He is considered one of the best Latvian goalkeepers of all time.-Playing biography:...

. But in the next 3 seasons he never played more than 10 matches and had to sit on the bench behind Aleksandrs Kulakovs

Aleksandrs Kulakovs

Aleksandrs Kulakovs is a former Latvian football goalkeeper who played for the biggest part of his career for Daugava Rīga....

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In 1977 at the age of 27 Žagars left Daugava and joined Enerģija Rīga

Energija Riga

Enerģija Rīga was a Soviet Latvian football club from Riga, a four-time winner of the Latvian league. It went bankrupt together with the factory that supported it in early 1990s.-History:...

with which he won the Latvian league in 1977.