Pēteris Jurčenko was a 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...

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Football (soccer)

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 and football manager, notable for playing with one of the leading clubs in Latvian pre-war football - Olimpija Liepāja

Olimpija Liepaja

Olimpija Liepāja was Latvian football club that in the 1920-1930s was one of the strongest in Latvia and with which played many Latvia national football team footballers. It was from the city of Liepāja.-History:...

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Although Jurčenko wasn't as technical as Ernests Ziņģis or as good in gool scoring as Roberts Heiblihs

Roberts Heiblihs

Roberts Heiblihs was a Latvian footballer, one of the most notable footballers in Liepāja of the 1940s.-Biography:Heiblihs was born in Liepāja in 1918. In 1936 he joined Olimpija Liepāja, the city's top football club which had lost six of its main players...

, he was an essential part of the 1930s-1940s Olimpija attacking five. For his specific manner of running Jurčenko was nicknamed as the Sewing machine

Sewing machine

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 in the club. With Olimpija he won three consecutive Virsliga

Virsliga

-Past Virslīga winners:-Top scorers:-Riga football league winners:* 1910 Union Riga* 1911 British FC Riga* 1912 Union Riga* 1913 British FC Riga* 1914 British FC Riga* 1915 British FC Riga-Champions of Latvia before Virslīga:* 1922 Ķeizarmežs...

 titles in the second half of the 1930s.

After World War II

World War II

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 Jurčenko became a football coach working both with children and with the Dinamo Liepāja football team. In 1948 with Dinamo Jurčenko achieved an unpreceded result in Latvian football - won the Latvian Cup with a club that didn't play in the top league, and as he was a playing coach Jurčenko even scored the game winning goal in the cup final against Dinamo Ventspils.

In late 1940s Jurčenko was deported by the Soviet regime to Siberia

Siberia

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. Upon returning to Latvia Jurčenko took up coaching the football club of Tosmare

Tosmare

Tosmare is a district north of Liepāja, Latvia near the Karosta and lake "Tosmare".Tosmare is well known mostly because of its shipyard "Tosmare", currently owned by Rigas Kugubuvetava.-Notable residents:...

. In 1957 Tosmare earned promotion to the top Latvian league. Its debut in the top league was very impressive - Tosmare won the bronze medals and until the last rounds was battling for gold with the renowned Sarkanais Metalurgs Liepāja. In addition to it Jurčenko led Tosmare to the Latvian Cup final. However his health had suffered massively in the deportation

Deportation

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and Jurčenko died before the end of the 1950s.