THE RISE OF RIGA UNITED

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STEVE KENNEDY TALKS TO CLUB FOUNDER AND BOARD MEMBER JUSTIN WALLEY ABOUT THE GROUND-BREAKING TEAM IN THE LATVIAN CAPITAL

Influential: Justin Walley, right

Football clubs come and go like hot meals. We are actually one of the longest established clubs in the country at 12 years.” So is the state of Latvian football. Ranked 143rd in the world – behind the likes of the Solomon Islands and Andorra – the national team have dropped from the top 50 in the FIFA rankings when they stunned the world by drawing with Germany at Euro 2004. The league system isn&rsq...

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