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Vilnius Ronaldo Messi Installation by Jolita Vaitkute (photo by Paulius Zaborskas)

Vilnius makes a bit to host Ronaldo and Messi dinner

September 10, 2019 Lithuania Tribune 0

Ten of the best restaurants in Vilnius had reserved tables for Ronaldo and Messi, and a local artist created a 3D art piece made of food and restaurant equipment depicting the two football stars while […]

WorldCoaches brings Winter, Blinker and Mendes da Silva to Lithuania

June 18, 2019 Lithuania Tribune 0

In a series of events, Dutch football legends, Aron Winter, Regi Blinker Sander Westerveld, David Mendes da Silva and others, will play eFP soldiers at the Iron Wolf Brigade soccer field on July 5 and […]

Edvinas Girdvainis of Lithuania falls next to Delle Alli of England

All-time low: Lithuania drops to 145th place on FIFA rating

October 16, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s national football team dropped to an all-time low of 145th place on the latest FIFA world rating. […]

Big screens by the White Bridge in Vilnius will broadcast UEFA Euro matches

Where are Lithuanians going to watch UEFA Euro 2016?

June 8, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Although Lithuania is a basketball country, sports fans are getting ready for one of the highlights of the summer, the UEFA Euro 2016 championship. Restaurants and bars in Lithuania’s main cities are setting up TVs, hoping to attract football crowds to watch the game there. […]

Two Lithuanian footballers suspended over doping

April 19, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Two Lithuanian football players have reportedly been caught doping. Tests detected Meldonium in their urine, a substance that the World Anti-Doping Agency banned from use by athletes as of January 1. […]

FIFA votes on new president – Lithuania backs Infantino

February 26, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

World football’s governing body FIFA will vote today on appointing a new president following the resignation of former president Sepp Blatter amid a raft of corruption scandals that hit the organisation. […]

Lithuania football team falls further in FIFA world rankings

February 4, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania fell to 128th in the latest FIFA world rankings of national football teams launched on Thursday. The country is now one place below last year’s ranking of 127th. […]

Giedrius Arlauskis (rcdespanyol.com nuotr.)

Goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis praised despite losing debut

February 2, 2016 LT Daily 0

Lithuanian goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis made his debut in the Spanish football league for Espanyol against Spanish giants Real Madrid on Sunday. […]

Lithuanian goalkeeper joins English Premier League club Bournemouth

January 28, 2016 LT Daily 0

Lithuania’s 18-year-old Atlantas goalkeeper Marius Adamonis has joined English Premier League Club Bournemouth after a trial at the club. […]

Karpavičius withdraws from race for Football Federation presidency

January 19, 2016 LT Daily 0

Raimondas Karpavičius, one of the candidates running for the presidency of the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF), has quit the race on the eve of the voting. […]

Court bans Polish kibice for inciting ethnic hatred

January 8, 2016 LT Daily 0

Four Polish nationals were convicted of exhibiting a poster offensive to Lithuanians at a football match. The banner with the words Lithuanian cad, kneel before the Polish lord was displayed in a football match between local team Lech and Žalgiris in 2013. […]

Baltic states go down in FIFA World ratings

December 28, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

The Baltic states have fallen down FIFA’s world rankings this year. Lithuania and Latvia are out of the world’s top 100 while Estonia barely makes it. […]

Kijanskas scored his second goal in Israeli premier league

November 2, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

Lithuanian 30-year-old football player Tadas Kijanskas scored on Saturday his second goal this season in the Israeli premier league for his team Hapoel Haifa. […]

Euro 2016: Lithuania lost to Estonia

September 6, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

The Lithuanian national football team lost on Saturday, September 5, to Estonia in Group E with a score of 1-0 and will have to achieve victories in the next matches in order to have a chance to qualify. […]

Football player Tadas Kijanskas: ‘Happy to score, but team spirit is more important’

August 31, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

The captain of the Lithuanian national football team, 29-year-old defender Tadas Kijanskas, scored Saturday the first goal for his team Hapoel Haifa in Israel and says he is hoping to be “in a better position this year”. […]

World Cup 2018 qualification: Lithuania in Group F with England

July 26, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

Lithuania, which is competing for participating in Euro 2016 in France against England and Slovenia in Group F, will face these teams also in the clashes for the tickets to the FIFA World Cup that will take place in Russia in 2018. […]

Football player Mindaugas Panka continues in Israel

July 21, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

Lithuanian midfielder Mindaugas Panka, 31, signed a new contract with Israeli premier league football club Maccabi Petah Tiqua. Panka has been signed up for one year and is to be one of the main players under the direction of his coach Ran Ben Shimon. […]