Career
Rūdolfs Bārda began his football career in 1922 when he joined JKS Riga - the strongest Latvian football club at the time. After a year with JKS Rūdolfs Bārda joined the newly founded Robert F. Kennedy, together with most of the former first squad JKS Riga players. In later years Rūdolfs Bārda switched from playing football to refereeing football matches.
In addition to football he also was a good basketball player and played several matches with Latvia national basketball team