Players
See also: Latvia international footballersVitālijs Astafjevs has played for Latvia more times than anyone else, with 167 caps from 1992 to 2010. He also holds the European record for the most played matches in the national team. Astafjevs has netted 16 times. Andrejs Rubins is the most capped active player for Latvia with 117 appearances, as of October 2011. Māris Verpakovskis is the nation's top goalscorer with 28 goals. Other high scorers include Marians Pahars and Juris Laizāns, who both have scored 15 goals each for Latvia.
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“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them
be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)