Arturs Karasausks

Arturs Karasausks (born 29 January 1992 in Riga) is a Latvian footballer, who plays in the Latvian Higher League for FK Liepaja.

Club Career

Early career

As a youth player Karasausks was a member of the JFC Skonto academy. He was signed by the Latvian Higher League club JFK Olimps/RFS in January 2009, making his top flight debut at the age of 17. He scored his first goal for the club in a 1–1 league draw against SK Blazma on 11 June 2009, being just 17 years, 4 months and 17 days old. In less than a month after Karasausks managed to score his first ever hat-trick in a 7–0 league victory over Rigas Futbola skola. All in all he scored 10 goals in 18 league appearances and was named Young Player of the Year, receiving the Ilmars Liepins prize at the end of the season. Olimps/RFS finished fifth in the league table, which is, to date, the best result in the club's history.

Skonto Riga

In January 2010 Karasausks went on trial with Skonto Riga and became one of five Olimps/RFS players to be signed by the club and the newly appointed manager Aleksandrs Starkovs. He managed to score 7 goals in his first 4 appearances and was named the league's best player in April. All in all Karasausks scored 8 goals in 12 league matches, helping Skonto become the Latvian Higher League champions for the first time since 2004. In July, he went on trial with the Ukrainian Premier League club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and joined the club on loan until the end of the year in August 2010. In January 2011 Karasausks returned to Skonto, having appeared in 9 matches of the Dnipro reserve team and scored 2 goals. The 2011 season saw Karasausks score 2 goals in 15 league matches. Due to injuries and conflicting with the club's board, Karasausks did not appear in a single match of the 2012 Latvian Higher League until August, when he was given out on loan to FB Gulbene. During the loan spell Karasausks participated in 15 matches and scored 1 goal.

In January 2013 he retu

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