Arvīds Jurgens

Arvīds Jurgens
Personal information
Full name	Karlis Arvīds Jurgens
Date of birth	27 May 1905
Place of birth	Riga, Russian Empire
Date of death	17 December 1955 (aged 50)
Place of death	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team
1921–1922	JKS Riga
1923–1927	RFK
1928–1931	Riga Vanderer
1932–1938	ASK Riga
International career
1924–1935	Latvia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Karlis Arvīds Jurgens (27 May 1905 in

footballer, ice hockey, basketball and bandy player who play played for Latvia national teams in all four of these sports. He was one of the best all-around Latvian sportsmen.^[1]

Football career

Jurgens began playing football with

RFK

was formed, Jurgens alongside most of the JKS footballers joined the new club which proved to be the flagman of Latvian football in the years to come.

From 1924 to 1926 Jurgens won three Latvian league titles with RFK and became a two-time winner of the

Olimpija Liepāja. He was a member of the Latvian football team at the 1924 Summer Olympics.^[2]

In 1927 Jurgens became the instigator for

Austria Wien becoming the first Latvian footballer to play abroad. Before the 1932 season Jurgens left Vanderer for ASK Riga with which he won his fourth Latvian championship in 1932.^[5] He played with ASK until the 1937/38 season after which he switched solely to refereeing eventually becoming one of the best football referees in Latvia. With Latvia national football team he played his last match in 1935. Jurgens continued to perform as a football referee after World War II when he lived in Germany and Canada

.