Roberts Skadats (born 1948) is a former Latvian football midfielder and forward who played with FK Daugava Rīga for most of his career.
After completing secondary education Skadats was offered to join Daugava - the top football team in Latvia - at the age of 18 years.
[citation needed][1] However 1970s were not a great decade both for Daugava (stuck in the third strongest league of Soviet football) and for Skadats.
Despite his good technique he never realized his potentially fully because defenders played against him rough and that made Skadats too cautious on the field.
Skadats played for ten more years in the Latvian league for Elektrons but that was a much lower level than that of Daugava.