Aleksandrs Cauņa
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Cauņa with CSKA Moscow in 2014
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Aleksandrs Cauņa | ||
| Date of birth | 19 January 1988 | ||
| Place of birth |
Daugavpils, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union (now Republic of Latvia) |
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| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1995–2002 | Dinaburg | ||
| 2002–2005 | Skonto Riga | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006 | Olimps Riga | 10 | (2) |
| 2006–2011 | Skonto Riga | 77 | (16) |
| 2009 | → Watford (loan) | 5 | (1) |
| 2011 | → CSKA Moscow (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2011–2017 | CSKA Moscow | 56 | (3) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007–2015 | Latvia | 44 | (11) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 January 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 January 2017 |
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Aleksandrs Cauņa (pronounced [ˈt͡sɑuɲɑ]; born 19 January 1988) is a Latvian football player.
Born in Daugavpils, at youth level Cauņa played for Dinaburg, being brought to Skonto Riga system at the age of 14 in 2002, where he spent 3 years. In 2006, he joined the Latvian First League side Olimps Riga, playing 10 matches and scoring 2 goals. In 2006, he re-joined Skonto Riga and got a place in the starting eleven. He was named the best youth player in Latvia despite playing only half the season in 2006.
In January 2008 Cauņa was invited to join the Premier League club Chelsea on trial and he trained with the club's reserves. After the 2008 season Cauņa was on trials at several Premier League clubs, including Blackburn Rovers and Sunderland, but moves eventually fell through as managers Paul Ince and Roy Keane left the clubs.
On 2 February 2009 he joined English Championship club Watford on loan until the end of the 2008–09 season, with a view to a permanent move. On 3 March he made his debut, coming on as a 74th-minute substitute for Jon Harley in the 2–1 defeat at to Plymouth Argyle at Home Park. Cauņa scored his first Watford goal on his full debut for the club, firing a powerful half-volley in a 2–2 draw with Southampton at Vicarage Road on 7 April 2009. He returned to Skonto at the end of the season.
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