 Kazakevičs managingLatvia in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1981-03-30)30 March 1981 (age 44) | ||
| Place of birth | Bauska,Latvian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | FA Šiauliai | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Jelgavas BJSS | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Dialogs | |||
| Managerial career | |||
| 2001–2003 | Viola | ||
| 2004–2012 | Jelgava | ||
| 2013–2020 | Latvia U21 | ||
| 2020–2023 | Latvia | ||
| 2024– | FA Šiauliai | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Dainis Kazakevičs (born 30 March 1981) is a Latvian professionalfootball manager.
Kazakevičs began his career in the youth team of Jelgavas BJSS, later representingJelgava-based club Dialogs in the 1995 edition of theLatvian First League.[1]
Following his playing career, Kazakevičs moved into coaching, coachingViola's second team. In 2001, Kazakevičs was appointed head coach of Viola. Kazakevičs held the post until the club's demise in 2003, when they merged withRAF Jelgava to formFK Jelgava. Kazakevičs remained manager of the newly formed club. In 2009, Kazakevičs won theLatvian First League, guiding the club to theLatvian Football Cup ayear later.[1] In 2013, following his departure from Jelgava, Kazakevičs was appointedLatvia's under-21 manager. Kazakevičs remained in the post for seven years.[citation needed] On 20 January 2020, Kazakevičs was confirmed asSlaviša Stojanovič's successor as manager ofLatvia.[2] On December 7, Dainis Kazakevics lost his position as the head coach of the Latvian national football team following a board decision.[3] Since the beginning of 2020, when Dainis Kazakevics started leading the national team, he had to contend with critics from the outset, as his appointment to the position raised immediate questions. Criticism of Kazakevics persisted thereafter, and skepticism did not completely disappear even during the series of five victories in 2022. However, the call forDainisOut reached its zenith in 2023 - that year saw ten games with nine losses, and notably, since the beginning of September, only two goals were scored in six matches (all scored in the victory over Armenia, during which the fan sector demonstratively left the stands in the first half, demanding the coach's resignation). The pressure from the public did not diminish afterwards, culminating in the termination of his contract.[4]
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Latvia U-21 | 14 August 2013 | December 2019 | 63 | 13 | 19 | 31 | 020.63 |
| Latvia | 20 January 2020 | 7 December 2023 | 41 | 11 | 12 | 18 | 026.83 |
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