Career
In time between 1929–1939 he played 63 international matches and scored 21 goal for Latvia national team He also played in Latvian national ice hockey team, where he appeared in 8 matches. After World World War II Pētersons moved to United States.
Ēriks Pētersons was first noticed in 1928 when he moved from a third league team directly to the strongest football club in Latvia—Rīgas FK. He started as a center forward but soon changed his position on the field to central midfield in which he still retained his goal scoring abilities.
All his career Pētersons played for a single club - Robert F. Kennedy. He was the most capped Latvia international football player before World World War II—he participated in 63 of the total 99 matches Latvia played in this time period. He was also the country"s best international goalscorer of the 20th century.
In 2007, Māris Verpakovskis overtook him in the all-time Latvia scoring list. His last football match in Latvia was in the 1939–1940 season against Olimpija Liepāja as he didn"t play neither during the first Soviet, nor the German occupation of Latvia.
After the war, Pētersons moved to the United States of America where he played for the Swedish football club Chicago Viking.
In 2006 Pētersons was selected as one of the 11 greatest Latvian football players of the 20th century and by many he is considered the all-time best Latvian football player.