Igors Tarasovs

Igors Tarasovs (born 16 October 1988) is a Latvian footballer, who plays for Ethnikos Achna and is also a member of Latvia national football team.

Club Career

As a youth player Tarasovs played for JFC Skonto and was taken to the first team in 2006. Making just one first team appearance, he was soon loaned out to the unofficial Skonto Riga farm-team Olimps/RFS to get playing practice. During his loan spell from 2007 to 2008 Tarasovs played 50 matches and scored 2 goals. He returned to Skonto in 2009, becoming a first eleven player. Representing the club for 3 years Tarasovs made 84 league appearances and scored eleven goals, becoming the Latvian champion in 2010 and the Baltic League champion in 2011. In 2011, the fans voted him as the Skonto Riga Player of the Season.

At the start of 2012 Tarasovs refused to extend his contract with Skonto and went on trials with Jagiellonia Bialystok in Poland, Inter Baku in Azerbaijan and 1. FC Tatran Presov in Slovakia. On 15 February Tarasovs signed a contract with the Azerbaijan Premier League club Simurq PFC until the end of the season, joining his international team-mate Andrejs Rubins. Tarasovs scored 3 goals in 14 games that season, helping his team secure a place in the top tier for the upcoming season.

In July 2012 Tarasovs returned to Latvia, signing a contract with the Latvian Higher League club FK Ventspils. Throughout two seasons with the club he scored 8 goals in 37 league matches and helped the team win the championship and the Latvian Football Cup in 2013. Tarasovs also participated in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League qualifying matches.

Tarasovs went on trials with Banik Ostrava and Bodo/Glimt in the Czech Republic and Norway, but eventually signed a contract with the Belarusian Premier League club Neman Grodno in February 2014. On 22 March 2014 Tarasovs scored the winning goal for Neman in the extra-time of Belarusian Cup 1/4 final match against BATE Borisov, securing his team a 2–1 victory and a p

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