Biography

Fogelis' first season in senior football came in 1925 when he played with LSB Riga as it finished third in the top Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

 football league. After two years with LSB Fogelis moved to the flagman of Riga football RFK

Rigas FK

Riga FK was a Latvian football club which was founded December 14, 1923. It was the strongest and most popular Latvian football club in 1920s and 1930s, it was also the base team for Latvia national football team in its early years...

. With RFK he played just one season after which he moved to the newly founded Riga Vanderer

Riga Vanderer

Riga Vanderer was a Latvian football club that was founded in 1927, disbanded in 1940, restored a year later and disbanded again in 1944.-Founding:...

 along several much more popular RFK footballers, such as Arvīds Jurgens

Arvids Jurgens

Arvīds Jurgens was a Latvian footballer, ice hockey, basketball and bandy player who play played for Latvia national teams in all four of these sports...

, Voldemārs Plade

Voldemars Plade

Voldemārs Plade was a Latvian football forward and manager, the most notable of four Plade brothers who played for Latvia national football team.-Biography:...

 and Česlavs Stančiks

Ceslavs Stanciks

Česlavs Stančiks was a Latvian footballer. In 1939 he resettled in Germany as part of resettlement of all Baltic Germans.-Club playing career:...

, and over two seasons the new club earned promotion to the Latvian Higher League. Fogelis played with Vanderer until 1932, then he joined another Riga club - Union Riga

Union Riga

Union Riga was a football club established in Riga in 1907. It was the winner of the Riga football league in 1910. In the period of independence of Latvia between the World wars Union played in the Latvian Higher League for several years...

 together with two other leading Vanderer footballers - Hermanis Jēnihs and Ferdinands Neibergs. Fogelis played two years with Union and was one of the leaders of the side, however before the 1935 season he returned to Riga Vanderer (replacing Alberts Šeibelis

Alberts Šeibelis

Alberts Šeibelis was a Latvian footballer, one of the most popular Latvian footballers in the era before World War II. In 54 matches for Latvia he scored 14 goals-Biography:...

 who had left the club) with which he won the Riga Football Cup

Riga Football Cup

Riga Football Cup was a knockout tournament held in Latvian football between 1925 and 1936. In 1937 it was replaced by the Latvian Football Cup. Clubs from other cities than Riga were allowed to participate in the tournament....

 in 1936 and retired from football after the season.

Between 1925 and 1934 Fogelis capped 8 international appearances for Latvia national football team

Latvia national football team

The Latvian national football team is controlled by the Latvian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Latvia and represents the country in international football competitions, such as the World Cup and the European Championships. So far, they have never qualified for a FIFA World...

. In 1928 he was a member of the Latvia team that won the first ever Baltic Cup tournament. Fogels was also a two-time champion of Latvia in ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 with the hockey team of Union (in 1932 and 1933), in addition he also played bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

for the Latvia national team.