Artūrs Karašausks

Early career

Karašausks was born in Riga. As a youth player he was a member of the JFC Skonto academy. He was signed by the Latvian Higher League club JFK Olimps/RFS in January 2009, making his top flight debut at the age of 17. He scored his first goal for the club in a 1–1 league draw against SK Blāzma on 11 June 2009, being just 17 years, 4 months and 17 days old. In less than a month after Karašausks managed to score his first ever hat-trick in a 7–0 league victory over Rīgas Futbola skola. All in all he scored 10 goals in 18 league appearances and was named Young Player of the Year, receiving the Ilmārs Liepiņš prize at the end of the season. Olimps/RFS finished fifth in the league table, which is, to date, the best result in the club's history.

Skonto Riga

In January 2010 Karašausks went on trial with Skonto Riga and became one of five Olimps/RFS players to be signed by the club and the newly appointed manager Aleksandrs Starkovs. He managed to score 7 goals in his first 4 appearances and was named the league's best player in April. All in all Karašausks scored 8 goals in 12 league matches, helping Skonto become the Latvian Higher League champions for the first time since 2004. In July, he went on trial with the Ukrainian Premier League club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and joined the club on loan until the end of the year in August 2010. In January 2011 Karašausks returned to Skonto, having appeared in 9 matches of the Dnipro reserve team and scored 2…

Karašausks was a member of Latvia U-17, Latvia U-19 and Latvia U-21 football teams. He was firstly called up to the senior side for a friendly match against Ghana on 5 June 2010, making his debut then, coming on as a substitution in the 59th minute and replacing Artjoms Rudņevs. He became Latvia's first player, born after regaining independence in 1990, to play for the national team. Karašausks returned to the national team on 7 September 2013, when he was called up for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying match against Greece to fill in for the suspended Artjoms Rudņevs and Valērijs Šabala. On 19 November 2013 Karašauks, alongside five other players, was banned from the Latvia U-21 team due to disciplinary infringement after the victory over Liechtenstein on 15 November 2013.

Scores and results list Latvia's goal tally first.

Karašausks' father Jurijs Karašausks is a former footballer, who played 6 international matches for Latvia from 1995 to 1998. According to skontofc.com, Karašausks' hobby is playing tennis.