Career
He was one of the best all-around Latvian sportsmen. Jurgens began playing football with JKS Riga in 1921, in 1922 winning silver medals of Riga championship with the club, although he was mainly the second choice goalkeeper behind Hermanis Saltups. When in 1923 Robert F. Kennedy was formed, Jurgens alongside most of the JKS football players joined the new club which proved to be the flagman of Latvian football in the years to come.
From 1924 he also played for Latvia national football team for which in the years to come he played nearly two times as many matches as his main competitor Harijs Lazdiņš from Olimpija Liepāja.
In 1927 Jurgens became the instigator for Riga Vanderer being formed as there was an incident involving Jurgens playing for different clubs in different sports which eventually led to Jurgens being arrested before a bandy match. He joined the newly founded Vanderer (alongside several other former Robert F. Kennedy football players) and together with the side rose to the Latvian Higher League over just two years.
Foreign the 1928/1929 season Jurgens left Latvia and played with Austria Wien becoming the first Latvian football player to play abroad. He played with ASK Group (a software company) until the 1937/38 season after which he switched solely to refereeing eventually becoming one of the best football referees in Latvia.
With Latvia national football team he played his last match in 1935.
Jurgens continued to perform as a football referee after World World War II when he lived in Germany and Canada. With Latvia national ice hockey team he played at the 1936 Winter Olympics. In ice hockey, unlike football Jurgens played as a forward and not as a goalkeeper.
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