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    “LATVIA’S COUNSEL THANKED ME FOR PUTTING US ON THE MAP – I FELT LIKE AN AMBASSADOR”

    Sep 22, 2021 4 minutes
    Interview Mark Sanderson

    FFT GRABS A WORD WITH… MARIANS PAHARS • IAN HARTE • QUINTON FORTUNE • JOSE BOSINGWA

    You signed for Southampton in 1999. How proud were you to become the first Latvian to play in the Premier League?

    I understood what it meant when I went to the Latvian embassy in London to collect my visa. The counsel thanked me for introducing our country to the English people. I felt like an ambassador for Latvia. When I arrived from Skonto I couldn’t speak English, but I’d watch every week, see the league table and knew we had to start picking up points. I needed to be at

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