The Kauno Zalgiris Sentinel
Market6 Mar 2028
Joris Moutachy asks to leave Kauno Zalgiris
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Vintage Fedor Černych — 8.07
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.07, and nobody on the pitch better.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
An order from above at Kauno Zalgiris: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Ivan Fiolić signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Fiolić commits to Kauno Zalgiris for another 3 years.
Match4 Mar 2028
The drought breaks for Kauno Zalgiris
7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Utenis were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at Kauno Zalgiris
Franco Baldassarra and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Kauno 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.
Match4 Mar 2028
Ivan Fiolić sends Kauno Zalgiris past Utenis
It finished 3‑2, and it was Ivan Fiolić’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kauno Zalgiris.
Market6 Mar 2028
Kauno Zalgiris promote Andrius Eliosius from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrius Eliosius 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Saulius Jankauskas joins the Kauno Zalgiris first team
- Market Modestas Sernas steps up from the Kauno Zalgiris academy
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Tomas Švedkauskas