Maybe in your country, basketball or ice hockey are more popular?

It's surprsing despite Latvia made it to the Euro 2004 with players like Maris Verpakovskis

As a Latvian, I've always felt so happy that football takes a backseat compared to our other sports. Thanks Latvia that you are not like everyone else!

Dude! Be happy. My team (from the netherlands) has a horrible center forward from Lithuania. Don't tell me your Latvian football is worse than Lithuanian! It can't be.

if that can make you a bit happy, just know that somewhere there is a random french guy who watched Riga - Valmiera last year and watched most of latvian games in the european qualifiers every year. (Too bad for Valmiera i really thought they'd beat Tirana)

I am not even Latvian, and it was bonkers. Currently, I live in Riga 😊. I am also trying to get tickets for the Conference League game

What sort of attendances are there at ice hockey and basketball games in Latvia?

@thomasjohnson2862 I couldn't afford to watch any of the games inside. I got footage from a friend. But outside the arena, it was full of people every time! (Sorry can't really answer your question)

Wasn't Arturs Irbe Latvian? He played in the NHL

Canadian here and as ice hockey is a religion here and I can tell you, for such a small nation, the number of NHL players you have produced is unbelievable, Sandus Ozolnish and Arturs Irbe come to mind.

That's the game that made me discover this channel too! : )

That is great to hear 😊 It can be difficult for us in smaller leagues but I wouldn't change it. You have some great talents in Norway. I am a Scottish Celtic fan and Bodo Glimpt absolutely thrashed us 😂 They were superb & our team had only been together a few months but still Bodo played us off the park . We badly need investment in Scottish football to enable smaller clubs to be more competitive. Money has ruined the game. I hope you continue to enjoy your football 👍💚🍀

Thank you so much for this, how amazing!!

drop the s-bomb! :D

Avoided the word ‘football’ skilfully there

​@@stuntpeggnieveare u single hun ?

​@@Skullz389🤡

When there is big matches then there could be big crowds, but not that often.

Oh wow. I’ve just seen this comment. Thank you so much. I’m actually in Poland this weekend to watch a match, excited for you to hopefully see it. I have family in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney, one day I’d love to visit.

Big Latvian immigration to Australia after WW II. Great to see this beautiful country highlighted. Great comments from the coach.

​@OfficialStuntPegg please come. We would love to have you. Our football is also different....it is played in sometimes in 35-40°C temperatures!

Latvia did qualify for Euros 2004.

I’d have liked to have heard more from the Riga manager, and the rest of the video could have easily been 20 minutes of great content

@@thomasjohnson2862you are right on this, I would like to increase the length of my videos moving forward, I’ve always taken a short snappy approach but when I’m really digging deep on some interesting stories, it can’t hurt to slow it down

Thank you so much! I absolutely shall! Hey I still haven’t had a visit to argyle, that could be on the cards this season, I really want to see home park.

@@stuntpeggnieve Yeah, we've a lovely stadium with the most kind hearted fans. I truly recommend that you do visit this season, if you're struggling for a ticket then do get in touch, as i'm a member 🤟 But if you have the money or contacts, the VIP experience is absolutely incredible!

Definitely 👍 As soon as I saw the rainbow 🌈 I knew that Riga would win

You would have certainly gotten a surprise if you had seen her in the stadium, which could have possibly happened but sadly didn't.

I think mine would be Olympiakos vs Panatheon Aikos I don't know why.

come for the 2nd leg of the CL game!

💙thank you so much

No violence even on Riga derby matchdays, very proud of it even if it feels a little boring.Dziękuję bardzo for visiting Latvia!

Yes, can agree, i was discouraged to play football because of Russian language. Every coach here was Russian or Ukrainian. I felt very disconnected. Almost no Latvian coaches at all.

​@@piggyraccoon5464what is Aleksandr kolinko , Maris verpakovskis , and Igor semjonovs ethnicity ? I remember them in euro 2004.

​@@Luonguyen457based on last name first is defo ukrainian and third russian

@@talib8388 that's cool bro , Decent era of Latvian football (euro 2004) .

​@@Luonguyen457they put an s at the end of Slavic first names in Latvia, so if you discount that it's clear they're Eastern Slavic names.

You mean like mentioned in the actual video

I’ll make sure to fit in a Lithuania and Estonia trip this year. At least they are beautiful countries!

HH 🍀

ManUtd as well :) And I'm a United fan from Latvia lol