The Zalgiris Courier
Squad5 Mar 2029
Grigore Turda damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Bryan Teixeira signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bryan Teixeira and Zalgiris agree another 4 years.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Bryan Teixeira 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 Zalgiris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Zalgiris
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Paulius Golubickas 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.
Match3 Mar 2029
Zalgiris find a way past Stumbras
Stumbras made Zalgiris work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market5 Mar 2029
One of our own: Marius Dapkus joins the Zalgiris first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marius Dapkus is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Mar 2029
Zalgiris promote Modestas Barauskas from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Modestas Barauskas has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market5 Mar 2029
Darius Cernych steps up from the Zalgiris academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Darius Cernych 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: Tomas Sernas joins the Zalgiris first team
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Paulius Golubickas at his very best
- Player ratings Saba Mamatsashvili was immovable