The Trakai Courier
The terraces5 Mar 2029
Anger at Trakai spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Player ratings5 Mar 2029
Both of them Deividas Barauskas's — 8.68
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.68, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout5 Mar 2029
Diadé Camara says Trakai went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market5 Mar 2029
Andrius Dapkus is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Trakai is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Mar 2029
A falling-out at Trakai
Tomas Cernych and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
5 academy graduates step up at Trakai
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Arvydas Simkus 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.
Market5 Mar 2029
Marius Paulauskas steps up from the Trakai academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marius Paulauskas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market5 Mar 2029
Deividas Satkus steps up from the Trakai academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Deividas Satkus has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Edvinas Kazlauskas joins the Trakai first team
- Match Trakai rescue it on 94 minutes
- Boardroom Trakai let a promise lapse