[citation needed] Born in Leningrad, Smirnovs played football with a local factory club.
After just six matches that he had played with Dinamo, Vadims Ulbergs from Daugava Rīga offered Smirnovs to join the strongest Latvian club.
In 1969 when Daugava went on a tourney to England but the players were found carrying contraband money and many of them including Smirnovs and Gunārs Ulmanis - the club veterans and leaders were disqualified.
In 1971 his disqualification was lifted and Smirnovs played one more match for Daugava (and a couple of games with Zvejnieks Liepāja, but he himself recognized that he wasn't in a form good enough, so he retired from football for sure.
[2] The Georgijs Smirnovs club is a list of Latvian football players that have scored 100 or more goals during their professional careers.