by Tamaz Pertia. Latvia Pahars accepted the opportunity to return to coaching, when the offer from LFF allowed him to become the manager of Latvian under-21 national team. Not long after his appointment, on 11 July 2013, Pahars was promoted, becoming the manager of the nation's senior team, shortly after Aleksandrs Starkovs vacated his position. As manager, Pahars guided Latvia to the 2014 and 2016 Baltic Cups. However, he failed to guide the nation to qualification to the FIFA World Cup for both the 2014 and 2018 tournaments, as well as failing for qualification to the UEFA European Championship for the 2016 tournament. Jelgava Pahars returned to Latvian domestic football, taking charge of Jelgava ahead of their 2018 Latvian Higher League campaign. He guided them to a sixth-place finish in his inaugural season in charge. In his second season in charge, Jelgava finished in seventh place in the Latvian Higher League, a minor drop in a position from their previous league campaign, with Pahars departing the club at the end of that season. Siena On 26 January 2021, he was hired by Italian club Siena, which was in the fourth-tier Serie D at the time due to previous bankruptcy. He resigned less than a month later, on 10 February, following a negative string of results. Outside football Pahars was a candidate for Honoured to serve Riga in the 2020 Riga City Council election, but was not elected. Career statistics Club International Managerial Honours As a player Skonto Virslīga: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Latvian Football Cup: 1995, 1997, 1998 Individual Latvian Footballer of the Year: 1999, 2000, 2001 As a manager Baltic Cup: 2014, 2016 References External links Latvian national team website Profile at 'legioner' Worldfootballers.com profile Living people 1976 births People from Cherkasy Oblast Latvian sportspeople Latvian footballers Association football forwards Latvia international footballers UEFA Euro 2004 players Latvian Higher League players Premier League players English Football League players Cypriot First Division players Skonto FC players Southampton F.C. players Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. players Latvian football managers Latvian sports coaches Skonto FC managers Latvia national football team managers Latvian expatriate footballers Latvian expatriate football managers Latvian expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate footballers in England Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate footballers in Cyprus Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate football managers in Italy