The Trakai Courier
Squad17 Aug 2026
Linas Novikovas is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Linas Novikovas: 4 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match12 Aug 2026
Roberts Zjuzins sends Trakai through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Roberts Zjuzins obliged against Siauliai. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Trakai.
Market17 Aug 2026
Trakai say no — this time
The offer from Suduva for Roberts Zjuzins was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Roberts Zjuzins, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.73
A mark of 7.73 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Vykintas Barauskas
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
José Cadenas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for José Cadenas
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Trakai will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The kick that got away from Ignas Klimavicius
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gatis Stolcers falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Market Tadas Sernas is free to find somewhere else
- Market Trakai pick up José Cadenas for nothing
- Market The shop window has Saulius Sernas in it