Voldemārs Plade Explained

Voldemārs Plade
Birth Date:24 December 1900
Birth Place:Riga, Russian Empire
Position:Forward
Youthclubs1:Union Riga
Youthyears1:1912
Years1:1921–1925
Years2:1926–1927
Years3:1928–1935
Clubs3:Riga Vanderer
Manageryears1:1933
Manageryears2:1935
Manageryears3:1935–1936
Manageryears4:1936–1937
Managerclubs4:LAS Riga
Nationalyears1:1923–1929
Nationalteam1:Latvia
Nationalcaps1:16
Nationalgoals1:9

Voldemārs Plade (sometimes also called Valdis Plade; 24 December 1900  - 27 January 1961) was a Latvian football forward and manager, the most notable of four Plade brothers who played for Latvia national football team. He was born in Riga.

Plade was one of five football playing brothers. In his youth he played with Union Riga and Āgenskalns sports club; but he became widely known in 1921 when playing for Ķeizarmežs. Alongside his brothers Kurts Plade, Teodors Plade and Alfrēds Plade, who all also played with Ķeizarmežs, Plade won Latvian league titles in 1922 and 1923. Unlike his brothers, Plade proved to be a long-lasting force in Latvian football and he was a national team regular from 1923 to 1929, capping 16 international appearances and scoring 9 goals. In a match against Lithuania at the 1929 Baltic Cup Plade scored three goals for Latvia from passes from the rising star Ēriks Pētersons.[1] Plade represented Latvia at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[2]

After the dissolution of Ķeizarmežs in 1925, Plade joined RFK with which he played for two years. After two years with RFK Plade joined the newly founded Riga Vanderer with which he occasionally played until 1935.

As early as 1933 Plade also took up coaching, working with V. Ķuze,[3] Universitātes Sports, Riga Vanderer[4] and LAS Riga,[5] from at least 1936 he also appeared regularly as a football referee.

In 1939 Plade as a Baltic German repatriated to Germany. He visited Riga in December 1942 before returning to the Eastern Front of World War II.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biography of Pētersons . 4 October 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111004135744/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1937%2F11%2F29&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00401&PageLabel=4 . 4 October 2011 . live .
  2. Web site: Latvia footballers to participate at the Berlin Olympic games? . 4 October 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111004134058/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1936%2F01%2F02&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00100&PageLabel=1 . 4 October 2011 . dead .
  3. Web site: V.Ķuze – Rīgas muita . 4 October 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111004135809/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1933%2F08%2F07&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00405&PageLabel=4 . 4 October 2011 . live .
  4. Web site: RV – Olimpija . 4 October 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111004135822/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1936%2F09%2F10&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00200&PageLabel=2 . 4 October 2011 . live .
  5. Web site: LAS coaches . 4 October 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111004135822/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1936%2F09%2F10&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00200&PageLabel=2 . 4 October 2011 . live .