Artūrs Vaičulis

Artūrs Vaičulis was born in Riga and as a kid he started playing football at his local youth club FK Auda. Soon after he transferred to Skonto Rīga academy, making a remarkable progress. In his last season with Skonto Vaičulis also trained with the first team but did not make any first team appearances and as a youngster was neither assigned to the first team squad. In 2006 Vaičulis left Skonto, having received an offer from the Scottish Premier League club St Mirren academy to join the club. After several remarkable performances throughout the period of two years with St Mirren he accepted an offer to join the Scottish giants Rangers in January 2008. Vaičulis mostly played for the Glasgow club's youth team and was occasionally involved in the reserve team action. Due to the strong competition among goalkeepers he left Rangers in July 2009 to sign a one-year contract with the Cypriot First Division club AEP Paphos. The following season Vaičulis served as the AEP back-up keeper and, eventually, made his debut for the club in a league match against Ermis Aradippou in April 2010. He appeared once more, playing his second match in the next row of the championship against Doxa Katokopia. At the end of the season Vaičulis left AEP Paphos and joined the fellow league club AEL Limassol in October 2010. At AEL he yet again served as the back-up keeper, not making a single league appearance throughout the year. In order to regain playing practice Vaičulis dropped a league lower,…

Vaičulis is a former member of Latvia U-17, Latvia U-19 and Latvia U-21 football teams. He received his first ever senior international call-up for the friendly matches against Qatar and Turkey on 24 and 28 May 2013. During both matches Vaičulis was an unused substitute.