Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1937, i uru te kapa Latvia ki te whakataetae tohu tuatahi mo te
Ko te 1938 World Cup. I whakanohoia a Latvia ki te roopu 8, i te taha o Austria me Lithuania. I wikitoria a Latvia i a Lithuania 4<unk>2 i Riga, whai muri i te hat-trick a Fricis Kaņeps me te whaainga a Iļja Vestermans. I Kaunas, i wikitoria ratou 5<unk>1, i muri i nga whainga e rua mai i a Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, me Vestermans, engari i ngaro 1<unk>2 i te tukinga whakatau ki a Austria, ahakoa he whaainga wawe mai i a Vestermans. I te Paenga-whāwhā o te tau 1938, i whakahekehia e te Austrian Anschluss te kapa Austrian, heoi, kaore a Latvia i karangahia ki te whakataetae e FIFA hei kaihauturu o te roopu.