Maksims Rafaļskis

Maxim Rafaļskis ( born May 14, 1984 in Riga) is a Latvian football player standing at ÍA Akranes in Iceland Pepsideild under contract.

Career

Association

Maxim Rafaļskis began his career in the Latvian capital of Riga, the JFC Skonto the youth department of the record champions Skonto Riga. As of the 2005 at FK Riga under contract he was there his professional debut in the top Latvian league Virsliga. After three seasons at FK Riga in the summer of 2008 he moved to FK Liepāja Metalurgs who has been trained at this time by the German Rüdiger Abramczik. With the team from the port city of Liepāja Rafaļskis won the Latvian championship in the 2009 season and finished with 11 goals scored in 30 games in the seventh top scorer along with Andrejs Perepļotkins. After another season at Metalurgs, he joined the Russian second division Baltika Kaliningrad from the former Königsberg. At the start of the 2012 season Rafaļskis returned to Latvia and played at FC Daugava Daugavpils. In 2013 Rafaļskis signed a two year contract with the ÍA Akranes of Iceland.

National

Maxim Rafaļskis made ​​his debut for the Latvian national football team in 2009 against Bulgaria, when he came in to replace Jurijs Žigajevs. In addition, he took part with the selection at the Baltic Cup 2010, where he came in the two scoreless games against Lithuania and Estonia on the entire 180 minutes of the game to use. After 12 internationals Rafaļskis graduated in qualifying for the European Championship 2012 will be the 13th and last against Israel.

Achievements

With the FK Liepāja Metalurgs

• Latvian Champion: 2009