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Ģirts Karlsons (born 7 June 1981 in Liepāja) is a Latvian football striker, who is currently playing for the Latvian Higher League club FK Ventspils. ==Club career== As a youth player Karlsons played for his local club FK Liepājas Metalurgs, being taken to the first team in 1998, at the age of 17. He spent the next six seasons with the club, becoming the second top scorer of the Latvian Higher League in 2003 with 26 goals, completing two hat-tricks during the season.〔 〕 All in all he played 96 matches for his local club, scoring 40 goals. After these bright appearances he had impressed clubs abroad, and in January 2004 Karlsons went on a month-long trial with the Russian Premier League club Shinnik Yaroslavl. Afterwards he signed a three-year contract with them.〔 〕 However, his spell there wasn't as successful as expected and was very short. After just one season, during which he played only 8 league matches without scoring goals, Karlsons returned to the Latvian Higher League, signing with the newly promoted, ambitious club Venta Kuldiga in 2005.〔 〕 However, the club struggled financially and after just five matches had to let some of their players go, including Karlsons,〔 〕 who returned to his hometown club, Liepājas Metalurgs later that year. He spent the next three seasons there, once again showing great performance. He scored a hat-trick in the 2005 season, and he also scored in the Latvian Cup final on 25 September 2005, which Metalurgs lost 2–1 to Venta Kuldīga.〔 〕 Another hat-trick came in the 2006 season, which Karlsons finished as the second top scorer with 14 goals under his belt. In the Latvian Cup he scored a hat-trick in the 6–1 semi-final victory over Dižvanagi Rēzekne and then scored in the final, which the club won 2–1 over Skonto Riga.〔 〕 In December 2006 Karlsons was named the runner-up of the Latvian Player of the Year Award by the Latvian Football Federation behind the winner Aleksandrs Koļinko, who that time was the first-choice keeper for Rubin Kazan in the Russian Premier League.〔 〕 His contract with Metalurgs expired in July 2007 and it was not renewed. Player was then linked with the English Championship club Bristol City, before going on trial with Southampton.〔 〕 In January 2008 he had a two-day trial with Wolverhampton Wanderers.〔 〕 Karlsons then had trials in the Netherlands with Zwolle and De Graafschap, 〔 〕 and on 8 February 2008 he signed for De Graafschap, which that time competed in the Dutch Eredivisie.〔 〕 Karlsons returned to Liepājas Metalurgs in the middle of 2008, because of limited game time. After some impressive matches there he attracted interest from several European clubs, but finally settled down in Azerbaijan, signing a contract with Inter Baku in the summer of 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Karlsons spēlēs Baku "Inter" - liepajniekiem.lv )〕 The next season he became the champion of Azerbaijan. He scored 8 goals in 19 matches for Inter in his first season there, but the next two weren't that successful anymore and in July 2012 he was released. In August 2012 Karlsons once again returned to Liepājas Metalurgs.〔http://www.skliepajasmetalurgs.lv/2012/08/karlsons-atgriezas-liepaja/〕 The 2012 season saw Karlsons scoring 9 goals in 19 league matches. Even though Metalurgs expressed their interest to keep him at the club, Karlsons chose to continue his career abroad, joining the Indonesian Premier League club Pro Duta in March 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Čekulajevs karjeru turpinās Taizemē, Karlsons - Indonēzijā )〕 On 14 April 2013 he scored his first two goals in a 3-0 league victory over Bontang.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Indonesia - Pro Duta FC - Results - Futbol24 )〕 Throughout the season Karlsons scored 15 league goals for the club, completing two hat-tricks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Latvia - G. Karlsons - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway )〕 He left Pro Duta at the end of his contract in November 2013. In February 2014 Karlsons went on trial with the Belarusian Premier League club Neman Grodno alongside his international fellow Igors Tarasovs and signed a contract with the club on 26 February 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Karlsons paliks "Neman" komandā - liepajniekiem.lv )〕 He scored his first Belarusian Premier League goal in a 3-2 victory over Dnepr Mogilev on 19 April 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maksimenko vārti Skotijas Premjerlīgā, mūsējie sit golus arī Polijā un Baltkrievijā )〕 Karlsons left Neman on 9 June 2014 due to family reasons and returned to Latvia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Karlsons pametis Grodņas "Neman" )〕 On 3 July 2014 Karlsons signed a contract with the Latvian Higher League title holders FK Ventspils.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Ventspils" pastiprina sastāvu ar Karlsonu )〕 He helped the club retain the title for the second year in a row.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FK "Ventspils" priekšlaicīgi kļūst par seškārtējiem Latvijas čempioniem )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ģirts Karlsons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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