Jevgeņijs Miļevskis is a former Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

 football striker

Striker

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 of Jewish origin, together with Aleksandrs Starkovs

Aleksandrs Starkovs

Aleksandrs Starkovs is a Latvian football coach and a former footballer. Starkovs is currently in his second spell as manager of the Latvian national team and is also the manager of FK Baku, having previously managed clubs such as Spartak Moscow in Russia and Skonto FC in Latvia.-Playing...

 he was the main goal scoring force of FK Daugava Rīga

FK Daugava Riga

Previously FK Daugava 90 is a Latvian football club located in Riga and currently playing in Latvian First League. Formerly under the name Daugava the team was the headliner of Latvian football where played most of the countries top players but with the collapse of the Soviet Union the team ceased...

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In 2006 Miļevskis was selected by the Latvian Football Federation

Latvian Football Federation

The Latvian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Latvia based in the capital, Riga. It organises the Latvian football championship , Latvian Football Cup and the Latvia national football team. LFF became a member of FIFA in 1922, but following Latvia's annexation by the Soviet...

 as one of the 11 best Latvian footballers of the first 100 years of football in Latvia.

Playing career

Miļevskis started playing under the best Latvian youth football coach Krišs Maisītājs in the Riga football school, later he played with FK Progress under Jānis Skredelis. In 1981 Miļevskis joined Daugava Rīga and with his smart and elegant playing style soon attracted the interest of both fans and specialists. He got invitations to play for several top Soviet clubs including FC Dynamo Kyiv

FC Dynamo Kyiv

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, FC Dynamo Moscow

FC Dynamo Moscow

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 and PFC CSKA Moscow but eventually he joined Spartak Moscow

FC Spartak Moscow

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. After having played several games for Spartak but not having been selected to participate in European competitions Miļevskis returned to Daugava. In the mid 1980s together with Starkovs Miļevskis made up one of the best attacks in the first Soviet league. For Daugava he scored more than 100 goals in official games.

In 1988 Miļevskis decided to emigrate to USA. However he was contacted by FK Austria Wien

FK Austria Wien

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 officials and played there for two seasons (20 goals in 64 matches). With Austria Wien he became champion of Austrian Bundesliga

Austrian Bundesliga

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, won the Austrian Cup

Austrian Cup

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 and the Austrian Supercup

Austrian Supercup

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 (2 times). His last professional club was VSE Sankt Pölten where he played until 1994.

Miļevskis also played 3 games for Latvia

Latvia national football team

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 in Euro 1996 qualifiers and scored the single Latvia goal in a 1:3 defeat against Portugal.