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Latvia's national Under-21 football team, also known as Latvia Under-21s or Latvia U-21s, is considered to be the feeder team for the Latvia national football team.
This team is for Latvian players aged 21 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-21 Football Championship campaign, so players can be, and often are, up to 23 years old. Also in existence are teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s. As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, as Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs and Aleksejs Višņakovs have done recently. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible).
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Players born in 1986 or later are eligible for the 2007-09 UEFA European U-21 Championship, players born in 1988 or later are eligible for the 2009-11 UEFA European U-21 Championship, and so on. The Under-19 team will be the most obvious source of the next crop of Under-21s.
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Genādijs Šitiks (since 2007)
