Deniss Rakels
Deniss squeegee in 2010
Denis's doctor blade ( born August 20, 1992 Jēkabpils ) is a Latvian football player on the position of a striker who can also come as an attacking midfielder for use. He currently plays for Polish club GKS Katowice tradition.
Club career
Career start in Jēkabpils
After he began his active career as a football player with his hometown club Jēkabpils RSS, moved to Jēkabpils SC, the actual successor club of Jēkabpils RSS. There it held it until around 2007, before he joined the second team of Liepaja Metalurgs at the age of 15 years. When you reserve team that season on currently (as of 2010) in the sub-prime first Latvian league, the young striker came from 2007, used regularly, scoring as regularly Goals for the team. Among other things, he went with the team after the 2007 season completed in the second highest Latvian football league. Already at that time the talent of the fast player was recognized and brought squeegee at the age of 16 years in the trained by the German Rüdiger Abramczik first team of the club. Finally, where he was on 4 July 2009 in a 6-0 win against SK Blāzma his professional league debut when he came off the bench for half-time for the defender Anton Jemeļins. His first professional league matches he succeeded already in his third championship use 2 August 2009, when he met in a 4-1 home win against FK Jurmala -VV in the 72nd minute for a 4-0 lead his team.
Thus followed the game in 2009 a total of 14 league games in which he scored nine goals and six more prepared for his teammates. The two most direct outstanding games this season, he completed it on 26 September 2009, when he over FC Tranzit scored a hat -trick in a 4-0 home victory of his team, and 18 October 2009 in a 6-1 victory away against the record champions Skonto Riga, where he was instrumental in all six goals of his team, scoring three goals himself and the remaining three by Assist prepared his teammates. At the end of the season the team coached by Abramczik ranked on the first place in the table and had five points clear of runners- tracker, FK Ventspils, and six points ahead of Skonto Riga.
Top scorer in Liepaja Metalurgs
After gaining some experience in international club football in July 2009, and it came in a qualification match for the UEFA Cup 2009/ 10 to a short stint, he was entitled with the team due to the league title of the game in 2009 to the second qualifying round of the Champions League 2010/11 to participate. There, however, the team had no chance and was eliminated with a total score of 0:5 against Sparta Prague at an early stage of the competition; Doctor blade was used in both games. In contrast, it went much better for Liepaja Metalurgs within the league and for the young Latvian offensive talent in person. The reigning Latvian champion did everything he could to defend his title in the game in 2010, failed to end of the season but it. After he was employed in the preseason still tend to the position of an attacking midfielder, doctor blade found in 2010, mainly as a striker use. So he brought it to 26 from a total of 27 possible gewesenen league games, totaling 18 goals and three assists. Together with the young Brazilian Nathan Júnior Soares de Carvalho, briefly Nathan Júnior, who was engaged at this time in the record champions Skonto Riga, was Rakels this season scorer in the top division in the Latvian football. Since squeegee, however, all his 18 goals scored from open play and the young Brazilian from his 18 hits three scored a penalty recycling, doctor blade may collect the sole claim to the scorer crown. With the team he made it only to the third place in the final standings and secured the team a place in the first qualifying round of the Europa League 2011 /12.
The sought-after Latvian offensive talent
During the current season 2010 squeegee first got offers from various European clubs. Besides the German club Werder Bremen, who expressed an interest in the young Latvians in August, even the Swiss club FC Basel (April 2010 ) and the Italian club Sampdoria had shown interest in doctor blade ( December 2009 ). The latter two clubs had the young Latvians even got to be on a trial or on training camp. Nevertheless, won the young talent for none of the clubs, which is why the doctor blade still remained in his parent club Liepaja Metalurgs. In January 2011, he was obliged by the Polish first division Zagłębie Lubin, who for years at GKS Katowice gave him after half a year in the second division.
National team career
First experience in a national team of his native country gathered squeegee in the year 2007, when he was first called up to the U- 16 national team of Latvia. After only a short time in the U-16 National Team convocation was followed in the Latvian U-17 national team squad, in which the young winger was primarily in 2008 and relying more and more was used. With the team he took this part among other things, qualifying for the U-17 European Championship in 2009. From 2009 the recording was followed in the Latvian U-19 selection, for which he so far (as of November 2010) is still active. With the team, he participated in the qualification for the U-19 European Championship in 2010 and graduated as a result of these three international matches, where he remained scoreless, however.
Because of his talent and the services that he offered already in the game in 2009 and then also in the subsequent game in 2010, doctor blade was first appointed in June 2010 to the squad of the national team of his native country for the Baltic Cup 2010. In the course of the competition at this time of just 17 -year-old made his debut on 18 June 2010 a 0-0 draw against Lithuania when he came on the lawn in 75 minutes for Andrejs Perepļotkins. Already the next day he completed his second international match, as he came to a prolonged use when also geendeten in a 0-0 draw against Estonia, this was from the beginning on the pitch and was replaced in the 56th minute by Genādijs Soloņicins.