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There was no question whether
Vanderer was ready to play in the higher league, as it had enough experienced footballers in the squad, however its top-flight début was even more impressive than most expected – Vanderer finished third in the league, mostly thanks to the tight defensive
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and RV was the first on the wrong side of the line. RV returned to the higher league in 1943 but it wasn't unable to compete with stronger sides any more. In 1944 when the war interrupted the football tournament RV was in the last place in the
Latvian league.
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tournament. In the B class tournament there proved to be no competition for the experienced
Vanderers team which won all 8 matches in 1928 A the B class champion Vanderers had to play against the weakest A class side –
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was big. The next years showed a decline in the league performance for
Vanderer that didn't earn any more league medals after 1934. The performance was much better in the cup tournaments. Vanderers reached its first
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there were major changes in the sports club structure in Latvia and most of the former clubs were disbanded, and RV was one of those. Its footballers joined different newly founded clubs of the Soviet system:
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was already a very prestigious tournament in which participated all the best
Latvian football clubs. In the autumn of 1938 the club changed its name from the foreign-sounding Vanderer to the Latvian
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198:) that year Vanderers finished with the same number of points as ASK. Therefore, a golden match was necessary, and in it ASK proved to be the stronger side by winning 3–1.
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The main problem for RV for several years in the 1930s was lack of a reliable first choice goalkeeper after
Jurgens had left it. Degners, Zakss, Strautmanis, Katlaps,
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Vanderer could not better its 1932 result over the years, yet it repeated the second-place finish in 1934, but the margin between
Vanderer and the title winners
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The 1931 season was less successful but in 1932 Vanderers got the closest to winning the gold of the
Latvian league in its history. Despite having lost
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As a new club despite it having several national team footballers in the squad
Vanderers had to start from the very bottom – that is the level B
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joined the club, thus filling the weakest position in the
Vanderer squad. The best goalscorers for RV in the second half of the 1930s were
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championship. The restored Vanderer squad contained most of its former stars including Bebris, Šeibelis,
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in Latvia after a conflict of interests involving the Latvia national team sportsman in football and
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club that was founded in 1927, disbanded in 1940, restored a year later and disbanded again in 1944.
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on May 13, 1928. The following players represented Vander in its first ever official match:
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before it was disbanded). The most long-lasting member of Vanderer was
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who played for the club from its very first days until 1940.
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in the squad) won the A class tournament and because the
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The decision of founding the new sports club was made by
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Armijas Sporta Klubs – Latvijas futbola meistars
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338:and in 1942 the club competed again in the
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545:Vanderers – Ķuze 3:0
129:Road to the higher league
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501:Vanderers pāriet A klasē
336:German occupation forces
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166:The higher league years
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377:Latvian Higher League
362:When the Soviet army
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273:In 1940 after Latvia
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156:Vladimirs Svistuņenko
16:Latvian football club
186:to its main rivals
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231:Jūlijs Lindenbergs
119:Aleksejs Andrejevs
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346:and future
320:Ēriks Brēde
269:Dissolution
243:Hugo Vītols
224:Riga Wolves
220:Rīgas Vilki
216:Latvian Cup
28:Rīgas Vilki
557:Categories
477:References
364:re-entered
330:During WW2
324:Ēriks Bēze
239:Union Riga
441:Karl Kurz
417:Winners:
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284:RDKA Riga
140:Amatieris
308:RGK Riga
212:ASK Riga
188:ASK Riga
177:LSB Riga
148:Rīgas FK
46:Founding
35:football
24:Wanderer
370:Honours
316:Germany
277:by the
259:V. Ķuze
144:Amateur
123:Tallinn
41:History
32:Latvian
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