Rūdolfs Bārda 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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, brother of Edvīns Bārda

Edvins Barda

Edvīns Bārda was a Latvian footballer and manager, the elder and most popular of four football playing Bārda brothers.-Biography:...

, Arvīds Bārda

Arvids Barda

Arvīds Bārda was a Latvian footballer, brother of Edvīns Bārda, Rūdolfs Bārda and Oskars Bārda.-Biography:...

 and Oskars Bārda.

Biography

Rūdolfs Bārda began his football career in 1922 when he joined JKS Riga - the strongest Latvian football club at the time. His older brothers Arvīds and Edvīns already were playing with the club at that time. After a year with JKS Rūdolfs Bārda joined the newly founded 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...

, together with most of the former first squad JKS Riga players. Playing with RFK from 1923 to 1927 Bārda won three Latvian league titles (1924–1926), from 1923 to 1925 he also played seven matches for Latvia national football team

Latvia national football team

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, including the appearance at the 1924 Summer Olympics

1924 Summer Olympics

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In later years Rūdolfs Bārda switched from playing football to refereeing football matches. In addition to football he also was a good basketball player and played several matches with Latvia national basketball team

Latvia national basketball team

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