Artūrs Vaičulis
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Artūrs Vaičulis | ||
| Date of birth | 26 February 1990 | ||
| Place of birth |
Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union (now Republic of Latvia) |
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| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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FK Liepāja | ||
| Number | 16 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2003–2005 | FK Auda | ||
| 2005–2006 | Skonto | ||
| 2006–2008 | St Mirren | ||
| 2008–2009 | Rangers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2008–2009 | Rangers | 0 | (0) |
| 2009 | →Cowdenbeath (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | AEP Paphos | 2 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | AEL Limassol | 0 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Atromitos Yeroskipou | ? | (0) |
| 2012–2013 | Daugava Rīga | 58 | (0) |
| 2014 | Kruoja Pakruojis | 6 | (0) |
| 2014– | FK Liepāja | 14 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007–2008 | Latvia U-17 | 6 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | Latvia U-19 | 7 | (0) |
| 2009–2012 | Latvia U-21 | 12 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 December 2014. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 December 2014 |
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Artūrs Vaičulis (born 26 February 1990) is a Latvian footballer, who currently plays for the Latvian Higher League club FK Liepāja.
Artūrs Vaičulis was born in Riga and as a kid he started playing football at his local youth club FK Auda. Soon after he transferred to Skonto Rīga academy, making a remarkable progress. In his last season with Skonto Vaičulis also trained with the first team but did not make any first team appearances and as a youngster was neither assigned to the first team squad. In 2006 Vaičulis left Skonto, having received an offer from the Scottish Premier League club St Mirren academy to join the club. After several remarkable performances throughout the period of two years with St Mirren he accepted an offer to join the Scottish giants Rangers in January 2008. Vaičulis mostly played for the Glasgow club's youth team and was occasionally involved in the reserve team action. Due to the strong competition among goalkeepers he left Rangers in July 2009 to sign a one-year contract with the Cypriot First Division club AEP Paphos.
The following season Vaičulis served as the AEP back-up keeper and, eventually, made his debut for the club in a league match against Ermis Aradippou in April 2010. He appeared once more, playing his second match in the next row of the championship against Doxa Katokopia. At the end of the season Vaičulis left AEP Paphos and joined the fellow league club AEL Limassol in October 2010. At AEL he yet again served as the back-up keeper, not making a single league appearance throughout the year. In order to regain playing practice Vaičulis dropped a league lower, joining the Cypriot Second Division club Atromitos Yeroskipou in July 2011. His contract was terminated in November the same year by mutual consent due to the club's financial struggle.
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