Tadas Girdvainis

Central Midfielder - Trakai
27 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Tadas Girdvainis

7 Edition

The Trakai Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tomas Novikovas breaks a bone — 29 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tomas Novikovas 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.

Squad

Tadas Girdvainis 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

Back issues
4 Edition

The Trakai Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

52 days out for Tomas Novikovas after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Trakai will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Saulius Kuklys 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 The request is on a desk at Trakai, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Nemanja Motika is a medical away from Trakai

The deal with Olimpija Ljubljana is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Tempers go at Trakai

Tomas Novikovas 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.

Transfer targets

APOEL tell Trakai: Pedro Ataíde is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A row about effort at Trakai

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tadas Girdvainis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Vikintas Valskis for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Trakai will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

When it matters, Arvydas Satkus plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Linas Lasickas

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief