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| Full name | Mihails Zemļinskis | ||
| Date of birth | (1969-12-21)21 December 1969 (age 55) | ||
| Place of birth | Riga,Latvian SSR,Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-back,sweeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1991 | Zvezda Ventspils | 0 | (0) |
| 1991–1997 | Skonto Riga | 120 | (29) |
| 1994 | BVSC Budapest | 6 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 17 | (0) |
| 1998–2005 | Skonto Riga | 132 | (28) |
| Total | 275 | (57) | |
| International career | |||
| 1992–2005 | Latvia | 105 | (12) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2009–2011 | Latvia U-21 | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Mihails Zemļinskis (born 21 December 1969) is a Latvianpolitician and former professionalfootballer. He played as acentre-back orsweeper, making over 100 appearances for theLatvia national team.
Zemļinskis spent most of his career atSkonto FC except for short periods atBVSC Budapest and atHapoel Kfar Saba. He was a skilled central defender and played for theLatvia national team after the countryregained its independence in 1991. He played 105 matches and scored 12 goals for the national team, and took part in the2004 European Championships in Portugal. Zemļinskis wore the number 4 jersey. He eventually became a football coach atFC Daugava. He is also a former head coach of theLatvia U21 team.[1]
Since 2009 he has been amember of the Latvian parliamentSaeima for theSocial Democratic Party, commonly referred to as "Harmony". According to a request made to theEuropean Parliament,[2] Zemļinskis was listed as a member of theCoalition 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 was at odds with his national party's associate membership of theparty of European Socialists and its only member of European parliament being a member of theparty of European Socialists. As of 19 April 2018, Zemļinskis was listed as a member of theAlliance for Peace and Freedom since 15 September 2015 in that European party's declaration of representatives registered with theAuthority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations.[4]
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