Career
Sīmanis played with Riga Vanderer from 1928 until the club"s disillusion in 1940, over these years twice winning silver medals of the Latvian Higher League, winning the Riga Football Cup twice and the Latvian Cup once. In 1932 Sīmanis made his début for the national team When Latvian sports club were disbanded in 1940, Sīmanis joined FK Dinamo Riga.
In the autumn of 1940 he had his leg broken in a match in Moscow after which there were complications and Sīmanis did not return to football again.
He later moved to the United States, and died there in September 1979.