Pavels Steinbors

Pavels Steinbors (born 21 September 1985) is a Latvian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Jagiellonia Bialystok in the Ekstraklasa.

Club Career

As a youth player Steinbors was a member of the Skonto Riga youth academy. He was taken to the first team in 2001. Even though he stayed in the club until 2004, due to high competition for the first keeper's place alongside that time Latvian international Andrejs Piedels, Steinbors was unable to get a place in the usual starting line-up.

In January 2004 Steinbors joined another Latvian Higher League club FK Jurmala, where he could finally settle down. Youngster showed some high-class performances and was regarded as one of the most talented Latvian youngsters. In December 2007 Steinbors went on trial with the Football League Championship side Blackpool, impressing the coaching staff. On 16 January 2008, the German 2. Bundesliga club FC Augsburg reported that Steinbors was on trial with them in their training camp in Faro, Portugal. However, on 31 January 2008, Steinbors signed a loan deal with Blackpool until the end of the 2007–08 season with an option to extend it for another year. The loan was then extended and Steinbors joined his countryman and current Latvian international Kaspars Gorkss at Bloomfield Road. During his loan spell Steinbors regularly played in the reserve team, but didn't make an appearance for the first team.

After the end of the loan contract player returned to the Latvian Higher League, moving to FK Liepajas Metalurgs in 2009. During the 2009 and 2010 seasons he was the back-up keeper for the team behind experienced Viktors Spole. In 2011 Steinbors finally claimed the first keeper's place, showing great performance and being included in the sportacents.com team of the season. All in all he played 53 league matches for Metalurgs.

On 15 July 2012, Steinbors moved to the South African Premier Soccer League club Golden Arrows for the 2012–13 season. He started the season as the club's first

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