The Trakai Courier
Match12 Aug 2026
Trakai out of the cup
Siauliai ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 31 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A chastening introduction for Rokas Dubickas — 5.16
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.16 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Darluis Paz 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ignas Barauskas 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Edvinas Valskis in the eights
A performance of 8.40 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Trakai lose Darius Barauskas
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Darluis Paz
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
No place for Deividas Mikoliunas in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Deividas Mikoliunas has his answer from Trakai; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the pace: Edvinas Jankauskas
- Player ratings Vykintas Klimavicius could not find anything
- Market Santino Andino arrives on loan