Career
At the age of 17 Tīls was one of the football players who played in the first ever official match of Olimpija Liepāja as the club lost 1 - 2 to LNJS Liepāja. Together with Olimpija he went through all the club"s glories and disasters. From 1926 to 1931 Tīls played 9 international matches for Latvia national football team
After World World War II when Olimpija was disbanded and a new club - Daugava Liepāja was formed, Tīls was appointed as the club"s head coach.
Despite his veteran age he also played for Daugava in his first two seasons with the club He worked with Daugava for 4 seasons winning both the Latvian league and the Latvian Cup in 1946 and 1947.
Before the 1948 season 6 best football players of Daugava left the club as they were sent to play with Riga clubs in the Soviet league and Daugava finished only 6th in the Latvian league and was merged with Dinamo Liepāja with a new head coach. Tīls didn"t coach any other football clubs afterwards and worked in a store until the end of his days.
As player
As head coach.
