Jankauskas Edgaras - Lithuanian football star, biography and career

Jankauskas Edgaras is a professional Lithuanian ex-football player who played at the position of the central striker, the head coach of the Lithuanian national football team. Winner of the Champions League in the 2003/2004 season as part of the Porto team (Portugal). During his career, the footballer has achieved considerable heights, playing for various European top clubs. So, he is the owner of the UEFA Cup 2002/2003 (Porto), the Lithuanian Cup (the football club Zalgiris, in 1993 and 1994), the winner of the 1997/1998 Belgian Championship and the Belgian Super Cup in 1998 in the "Bruges" Winner of the Scottish Cup 2005/2006 with the team "Heart of Midlothian."

The best football player of Lithuania

In addition to the above, in the career of Jankauskas Edgaras there were many other achievements and triumphs. The Lithuanian footballer is the best in his country in the last century. In 1995, the Lithuanian national football team summoned a 20-year-old striker, who subsequently defended the colors of his national team until 2010. He was an irreplaceable, authoritative football player of the Lithuanian squad.

Biography: the beginning of a footballer's career

The future leader of the team was born on March 12, 1975 in the city of Vilnius (Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR). Pretty early began his professional career as a player, he played in the youth club "Paneris". In 1991, he bought the club "Zalgiris", and the young football player will make his debut in the newly created top division of the Lithuanian championship. In the new club, the player quickly adapts and sometimes leaves in the starting lineup.

His game was just amazing, so the coaching staff positively reacted to considering his candidacy for the main team, regardless of age. Together with the team "Zalgiris" Jankauskas Edgaras became the winner of the Lithuanian Cup in 1993. It was a debut cup triumph for a young Lithuanian striker. With each season his game became better and more professional, and the next season the team repeated last year's success, again winning the national Cup of Lithuania in football (1994).

Years spent in Russian championships

After Lithuania, Jankauskas moved to the Russian championship. Here he spent only two seasons, for which he managed to join the Moscow teams - CSKA and Torpedo. In the Russian football championship Jankauskas often went out to play in the first team. In 1996, as part of the "army team", he played 18 matches, in which he managed to score 9 goals. This is a very ranking statistics for the forward of the Russian championship. In the "Torpedo" (in 1997) Lithuanian football player also played only one season. Here he scored 10 times in 29 matches.

Edgaras Jankauskas: achievements of the Lithuanian striker in European championships

With the departure of the Russian championship in the career of Yankauskas Edgaras, a series of transfer transitions began, which lasted just over one decade. For his football life he changed 16 European (and not only!) Clubs. Jankauskas managed to play in Belgium, Spain, Portugal, France, Scotland, Cyprus and even the United States of America. Together with "Brugge" he became the owner of the gold medals of the Belgian championship, and having moved to "Porto" and completely conquered such European cups as the UEFA Cup and the Champions League. In 2006, he played for the Scottish club "Hearts", with whom he managed to achieve a triumph in the national cup.

Completion of his career in FC "Torch"

In 2011, Yankauskas Edgaras returned to Russian football, where he began to play for the team "Torch" from the lower division. In the Voronezh club, the Lithuanian center forward played only 10 matches, in which he failed to score a scored goal. In the same year, the player decides to end his career as a football player and begin coaching.

Coach career: Lokomotiv, Hearts, Trakai and the Lithuanian national football team

Having played all over Europe, Jankauskas Edgaras acquired an invaluable experience, which he adopted from leading coaches. In addition, the Lithuanian striker already owned many foreign languages. In 2011, he is accepted as a coach and interpreter in the Moscow club "Lokomotiv". After spending one season in Russia, Jankauskas moved to Scotland, where he holds the post of head coach in the familiar club "Hearts". By the way, the owner of the "Heart of Midlothian" was Lithuanian Vladimir Romanov, with whom Yankauskas maintained friendly communication. In 2014, the coach returned to his homeland and began to train the Lithuanian club "Trakai". Since 2016, he is the head coach of the Lithuanian national football team.