The Trakai Courier
Match12 Aug 2026
Donatas Klimavicius sends Trakai through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Donatas Klimavicius obliged against Siauliai. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Trakai.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Arvydas Valskis runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Aug 2026
Donatas Klimavicius wins it after the whistle should have gone
107 minutes played. Donatas Klimavicius found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Siauliai went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bendrix Parra 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
Ricardo Quiñónez 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Trakai supporters have found a favourite in Donatas Paulauskas
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Donatas Paulauskas has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Trakai count the cost of losing Linas Cernych
42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Paulius Dapkus
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
No place for Saulius Simkus in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Saulius Simkus has his answer from Trakai; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Trakai and Victor Kiselev
- Player ratings Donatas Klimavicius changes it off the bench
- Market Trakai shop where it costs nothing