Mihails Zemļinskis

Mihails Zemļinskis
Personal information
Full name	Mihails Zemļinskis (Latvia); Mykhaylo Valeriyovych Zemlynsʹkyy (Ukraine)
Date of birth	21 December 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth	Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Centre back / Sweeper
Team information
Current team	Latvia U-21 (head coach)
Youth career
1985–1988	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Senior career*
Years	Team
1988–1991	Zvezda Ventspils
1991–1997	Skonto Riga
1994	BVSC Budapest
1997–1998	Hapoel Kfar Saba
1998–2005	Skonto Riga
International career
1992–2005	Latvia
Managerial career
2009–2011	Latvia U-21
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mihails Zemļinskis (Ukrainian: Михайло Валерійович Землинський; born 21 December 1969) is a Latvian politician and former international footballer.

Zemļinskis spent most of his career at Skonto FC except for short periods at FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, at BVSC Budapest and at Hapoel Kfar Saba. He was a skilled central defender and played for the Latvian national team after country regained its independence in 1991. He played 105 matches and scored 12 goals for the national team, and took part in the 2004 European Championships in Portugal. Zemļinskis wore the number 4 jersey. He eventually became a football coach at FC Daugava. He is also a former head coach of the Latvia U-21 team.^[1]

Since 2009 he has been a member of the Latvian parliament Saeima for the social democratic party "Harmony". According to a request made to the European Parliament,^[2] Zemļinskis is listed as a member of the Coalition pour la Vie et la Famille (CPVF) at the European level,^[3] a hodgepodge European party of conservative, extreme right, populist, eurosceptic, regionalist and neonazi members of national and regional parliaments from seven EU countries. This is at odds with his national party's associate membership of the party of European Socialists and its only member of European parliament being a member of the party of European Socialists.

Honours

Baltic Cup (2):

1993, 1995

Latvian Champion (11):

1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

Latvian Footballer of the Year

1998

References

^ uefa.com - Football Europe - News & Features - News Specific
^ "list of representatives of European Political Parties". asktheeu.org. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "MPs MRPs in European Parties Financial Exercise 2017". asktheeu.org. Retrieved 2 April 2017. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

External links

Latvian Football Federation Template:Lv icon
Mihails Zemļinskis at National-Football-Teams.com

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[1] uefa.com - Football Europe - News & Features - News Specific

[2] "list of representatives of European Political Parties". asktheeu.org. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[3] "MPs MRPs in European Parties Financial Exercise 2017". asktheeu.org. Retrieved 2 April 2017. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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