Full name Nauris Bulvitis Number 23 Name Nauris Bulvitis Height 1.90 m Career start 2007 | Playing position Years Team Role Footballer Weight 82 kg | |
Date of birth (1987-03-15) 15 March 1987 (age 28) Place of birth Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Republic of Latvia) Current teams Latvia national football team (Defender), Skonto FC (#21 / Defender) | ||
Nauris Bulvītis (born 15 March 1987) is a Latvian footballer who plays for League Two club Plymouth Argyle.
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Club career
Bulvītis started his professional career in 2007 with Daugava Daugavpils. Having played there for one season, he made 7 league appearances and scored no goals. In 2008 he had a one-year spell in the Lithuanian A Lyga with FK Šiauliai, playing 21 games and scoring once. In 2009 Bulvītis returned to his homeland, signing a contract with FC Tranzit. That season he played 17 matches and scored 1 goal in the Latvian Higher League, before being loaned to the Scottish First Division side Inverness Caledonian Thistle. He signed on loan until January 2010 after a successful trial spell at the club. He was recommended to join the club by fellow Latvian and former Inverness defender Pāvels Mihadjuks. Bulvītis made his debut for Caley Thistle in a Scottish League Cup match against Annan Athletic. He scored his first goal against Stranraer in the CIS cup. FC Tranzit permitted Bulvītis to extend his loan spell at Caley until the end of the season. Bulvītis left Inverness at the end of the 2009–10 season.
Bulvitis signed for the Latvian Higher League club FK Ventspils before the start of the Eurocups. He played 10 matches for FK Ventspils, scoring no goals. In January 2011 he went on trial with the Slovak Super Liga club Spartak Trnava and signed a two and a half-year contract with them. Because of a long term injury he was released by the Slovak side in the middle of 2011. Bulvītis then returned to Latvia, joining Spartaks Jūrmala. During three seasons with the club he scored nine goals in 56 league matches. In July 2013 Bulvītis joined Skonto Riga on a three-year contract. He played 15 league matches and scored three goals for the club before leaving the club in January 2014 due to a long-term delay of salary payment. On 24 January, 2014 Bulvītis signed a one-year contract with the Swiss Super League club FC Aarau with an option to extend it for another season. In April 2014 his contract was extended for another year. During his first season in the Swiss Super League Bulvītis played 18 matches, scoring no goals.
In February 2016, Bulvītis went on trial with Kazakhstan Premier League side FC Shakhter Karagandy. On 29th June 2016, Plymouth Argyle confirmed Bulvītis as a new signing.
International career
Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September, 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament. As of March 2015 Bulvītis has played 19 international matches and scored two goals for Latvia.
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