Voldemārs Plade

{{short description|Latvian footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name= Voldemārs Plade

| birth_date = {{birth date|1900|12|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Riga, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1961|1|27|1900|12|24|df=yes}}

| death_place =

| position = Forward

| youthclubs1 = Union Riga

| youthyears1 = 1912

| years1 = 1921–1925

| years2 = 1926–1927

| years3 = 1928–1935

| clubs1 = Ķeizarmežs

| clubs2 = RFK

| clubs3 = Riga Vanderer

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| manageryears1 = 1933

| manageryears2 = 1935

| manageryears3 = 1935–1936

| manageryears4 = 1936–1937

| managerclubs1 = V.Ķuze

| managerclubs2 = Universitātes Sports

| managerclubs3 = Riga Vanderer

| managerclubs4 = LAS Riga

| nationalyears1 = 1923–1929

| nationalteam1 = Latvia

| nationalcaps1 = 16

| nationalgoals1 = 9

}}

Voldemārs Plade (sometimes also called Valdis Plade; 24 December 1900 – 27 January 1961){{Olympedia|26351}} was a Latvian football forward and manager, the most notable of the four Plade brothers who played for the Latvia national football team. He was born in Riga.

Plade was one of five football playing brothers. In his youth he played with Union Riga and Āgenskalns sports club; but he became widely known in 1921 when playing for Ķeizarmežs. Alongside his brothers Kurts Plade, Teodors Plade and Alfrēds Plade, who all also played with Ķeizarmežs, Plade won Latvian league titles in 1922 and 1923. Unlike his brothers, Plade proved to be a long-lasting force in Latvian football and was a national team regular from 1923 to 1929, capping 16 international appearances and scoring 9 goals. In a match against Lithuania at the 1929 Baltic Cup, Plade scored three goals for Latvia from passes from the rising star Ēriks Pētersons.{{Cite web |url=http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1937%2F11%2F29&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00401&PageLabel=4 |title=Biography of Pētersons |access-date=4 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004135744/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1937%2F11%2F29&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00401&PageLabel=4 |archive-date=4 October 2011 |url-status=live }} Plade represented Latvia at the 1924 Summer Olympics.{{Cite web |url=http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1936%2F01%2F02&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00100&PageLabel=1 |title=Latvia footballers to participate at the Berlin Olympic games? |access-date=4 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004134058/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1936%2F01%2F02&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00100&PageLabel=1 |archive-date=4 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}

After the dissolution of Ķeizarmežs in 1925, Plade joined RFK with which he played for two years. After two years with RFK Plade joined the newly founded Riga Vanderer with which he occasionally played until 1935.

As early as 1933 Plade also took up coaching, working with V. Ķuze,{{Cite web |url=http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1933%2F08%2F07&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00405&PageLabel=4 |title=V.Ķuze – Rīgas muita |access-date=4 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004135809/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1933%2F08%2F07&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00405&PageLabel=4 |archive-date=4 October 2011 |url-status=live }} Universitātes Sports, Riga Vanderer{{Cite web |url=http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1936%2F09%2F10&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00200&PageLabel=2 |title=RV – Olimpija |access-date=4 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004135822/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1936%2F09%2F10&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00200&PageLabel=2 |archive-date=4 October 2011 |url-status=live }} and LAS Riga.{{Cite web |url=http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1936%2F09%2F10&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00200&PageLabel=2 |title=LAS coaches |access-date=4 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004135822/http://www.periodika.lv/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LATVIAARCHL&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=latvian-skin-custom&Path=SSP%2F1936%2F09%2F10&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00200&PageLabel=2 |archive-date=4 October 2011 |url-status=live }} From at least 1936 he also appeared regularly as a football referee.

In 1939 Plade as a Baltic German repatriated to Germany. He visited Riga in December 1942 before returning to the Eastern Front of World War II.