Modestas Kazlauskas

Defensive Midfielder - Siauliai
1 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Modestas Kazlauskas

4 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Siauliai through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Kauno Zalgiris, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Market

Aidas Satkus hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tadas Cernych decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Market

Siauliai turn down Daugavpils for Saulius Girdvainis

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Siauliai

Aidas Satkus was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Modestas Kazlauskas is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Vykintas Simkus answers Kauno Zalgiris immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Vykintas Simkus had Siauliai level again within 2 minutes, and Kauno Zalgiris never got to play with a lead at all.

Squad

Edvinas Klimavicius signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Edvinas Klimavicius commits to Siauliai for another 3 years.

Player ratings

Off the bench and decisive: Paulius Girdvainis

The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Siauliai were going nowhere until he came on.

In brief

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3 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Aidas Vaitkunas sends Siauliai through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Aidas Vaitkunas obliged against Trakai. 4‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Siauliai.

Match

Cruel end for Trakai as Siauliai pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Siauliai scored in the 112th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Market

Arvydas Novikovas puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Paulius Girdvainis, 33, rolls back the years — 7.88

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.88 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vadim Zubavlenko

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Aidas Satkus 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 Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Aidas Satkus gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Frank Fuentes

Marked 8.29 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Modestas Kazlauskas 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