Sergejs Kožans
Latvian footballer (born 1986)
Sergejs Kožans (born 16 February 1986) is a Latvian professional football manager and former player who played as a defender. He was most recently the assistant manager of Riga.
Club career
As a youth player Kožans played for JFC Skonto, making his professional debut in 2005. He spent 4 years playing for Skonto Riga in the Latvian Higher League, all in all making 51 appearances and scoring 5 goals. In 2009, alongside his team-mate Ivans Lukjanovs, Kožans joined the Polish Ekstraklasa side Lechia Gdańsk. In his first season with Lechia Kožans played 18 matches and scored 1 goal. All in all he spent three seasons in the Ekstraklasa, playing 42 matches and scoring 1 goal. On 24 May 2012 it was announced that Kožans would leave the club. He became an unrestricted free agent, and on 13 October 2012 joined the Belarusian Premier League club Shakhtyor Soligorsk, signing a contract until the end of the season. They finished the 2012 Belarusian Premier League season as the runners-up.
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