Unlike his brothers, Plade proved to be a long-lasting force in Latvian football and he 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.
[3] 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.
He visited Riga in December 1942 before returning to the Eastern Front of World War II.