Titas Krapikas
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 3 January 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Kaunas, Lithuania | ||
Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Spezia | ||
Number | 12 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2015 | NFA | ||
2015–2019 | Sampdoria | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2016–2019 | Sampdoria | 0 | (0) |
2019– | Spezia | 6 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2015 | Lithuania U17 | 3 | (0) |
2016–2017 | Lithuania U19 | 9 | (0) |
2017– | Lithuania U21 | 13 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:54, 21 August 2020 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 September 2019 |
Titas Krapikas (born 3 January 1999) is a Lithuanian football player. He plays in Italy for Spezia.
Club career
He joined Italian club Sampdoria in 2015 and began playing for their Under-19 squad in the 2016–17 season.[1] In the 2016–17 Serie A season, he also appeared on the bench for the senior squad on 22 occasions, but did not see time on the field. For the next 2 seasons, he mostly stayed with the junior squad, getting 11 call-ups to the senior team in total.
On 28 June 2019 he signed a 3-year contract with an additional 2-year extension option with Serie B club Spezia.[2]
He made his Serie B debut for Spezia on 24 August 2019 in a game against Cittadella.[3] He established himself as Spezia's first-choice goalkeeper early in the season.
International career
Krapikas started to play in the national youth teams of Lithuania in 2015. He played 3 matches with the U-17 team, 2 of them in the qualifications of European Under-17 Championship 2016 in Azerbaijan.
The following year, he moved to the U-19 team. He remained there for 2 years, playing 9 times, 2 in the qualifications of the European Under-19 Championship 2017 in Georgia and 3 in the European Under-19 Championship 2018 in Finland.
In 2017 he began his performance in the U-21 team. After 5 friendly matches, on 7 September 2018, he debuted in the official race. He played in the qualification and main competition of European Under-21 Championship 2019 in Italy and San Marino. In the home game in Gargždai against Georgia, where he played as a starter, the final score was 0–0.[4]
References
- ^ Titas Krapikas at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)
- ^ "Mercato: Titas Krapikas nuovo portiere aquilotto" (Press release) (in Italian). Spezia. 28 June 2019.
- ^ "Cittadella v Spezia game report". Soccerway. 24 August 2019.
- ^ "Lituania U21-Georgia U21". Retrieved 30 August 2019.
External links
- Titas Krapikas at Soccerway
- 1999 births
- Sportspeople from Kaunas
- Living people
- Lithuanian footballers
- Lithuania youth international footballers
- Lithuania under-21 international footballers
- Association football goalkeepers
- U.C. Sampdoria players
- Spezia Calcio players
- Serie B players
- Lithuanian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Lithuanian football biography stubs