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Vits Rimkus

Vīts Rimkus
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Rimkus playing for FK Ventspils
Personal information
Full name Vīts Rimkus
Date of birth (1973-06-21) 21 June 1973 (age 43)
Place of birth Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Latvia)
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Striker (retired)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993 Pārdaugava Rīga 14 (2)
1994 DAG Rīga 15 (3)
1995 Amstrig Riga 26 (8)
1995–1996 FC Winterthur 10 (8)
1996–1997 1. FC Nuremberg 13 (2)
1997–1998 FC Erzgebirge Aue 10 (0)
1998 Skonto Riga 15 (11)
1999–2000 FK Valmiera 38 (6)
2001–2004 FK Ventspils 100 (70)
2005 FC Rostov 9 (0)
2005–2009 FK Ventspils 109 (66)
2009–2010 FK Ekranas 26 (15)
2011–2012 FC Jūrmala 18 (10)
2012 FK Spartaks Jūrmala 1 (0)
2013 FB Gulbene 23 (20)
2014 AFA Olaine 3 (4)
2016 Skonto FC 19 (13)
National team
1995–2008 Latvia 73 (11)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 March 2017.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 March 2017

Vīts Rimkus (born 21 June 1973 in Riga) is a Latvian former football striker. He last played for Skonto FC in the Latvian First League. Rimkus is of Lithuanian descent.

Vīts Rimkus started his career in 1993 with Pārdaugava Rīga, scoring twice in 14 league appearances. After a promising start youngster was transferred to DAG Rīga in 1994. He played 15 league games for the team and scored 3 goals that season. He kept changing clubs and the next season was spent with another club from Riga - Amstrig Rīga. The 1995 season turned out to be a loud start of his career as he managed to net 8 times in 26 matches.

Several offers to go abroad appeared and the player chose to move to Switzerland, signing a contract with FC Winterthur. Scoring 8 goals in 10 matches that season, he moved to Germany in 1996, signing for 1. FC Nuremberg. Despite the loud boom in Switzerland, Rimkus couldn't prove himself in Nurnberg, so he was given away to another German club - FC Erzgebirge Aue. 10 matches with no goals made him return to Latvia then.

In 1998, he was signed by Skonto Riga. After a really successful season the player was given away to FK Valmiera, where he played for 2 years, showing great performance. In 2001 FK Ventspils signed Rimkus for free and had him playing there until 2004. Scoring 70 goals in 100 matches, he attracted attention from many Russian clubs and was signed by FC Rostov in 2005. Staying goalless in 9 games he was soon released and taken back by FK Ventspils. In the next 5 seasons, as a player of FK Ventspils, Rimkus scored 66 league goals in 109 matches. In 2009, he left the club after rumors about betting on his own team results, but nothing was proved in the end, and later it turned out to be a serious conflict with the board of the club.


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