[3] Jēgers came from a poor family[3] and in the first years he played football barefoot with a "ball" made from papers and old clothes in the street.
[3] He soon emerged as a very talented footballer and his popularity was on the rise as he scored the single late goal in the victory for his team against the renowned Rīgas FK.
[3] In 1940. when Latvian sports life was reorganized according to Soviet standards,[citation needed] Jēgers played for Dinamo Riga[3] with which he went on a tourney to Moscow, Kiev and Tbilisi.
[citation needed] After the German occupation, Nazis sent him to Stutthof concentration camp[3] where Jēgers caught typhus and was close to death.
[citation needed] In ice hockey Jēgers made a career only after World War II when he became a player with Dinamo Rīga.