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Lukas Spalvis
Personal information
Full name Lukas Spalvis
Date of birth (1994-07-27) 27 July 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth Vilnius, Lithuania
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Sporting CP
Number 33
Youth career
2009–2011 SV Weil 1910[1]
2011–2012 SC Freiburg[1]
2012–2013 AaB
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 AaB 53 (26)
2016– Sporting CP 0 (0)
International career‡
2012–2013 Lithuania U19 3 (0)
2014–2015 Lithuania U21 8 (4)
2014– Lithuania 18 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 08 May 2016
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 November 2015

Lukas Spalvis (born 27 July 1994)[2] is a Lithuanian professional footballer playing for Portuguese Primeira Liga side Sporting CP

Early years

Lukas Spalvis was born in Lithuania. When he was six, he emigrated with his mother from Lithuania and settled in Switzerland in Basel. While living in Basel, he went to a German school.[1]

Career

Club

Youth until 2012

Spalvis joined in 2010 the SV Weil 1910 from Weil am Rhein, the German neighboring town of Basel. In 2011 he joined the youth (Fußballschule) of SC Freiburg.


Aalborg BK/ AaB

He joined the club as a youth player in 2012 and was promoted to the first team squad in the summer of 2013. He got his first match for AaB when he was in the line up in the DBU Pokalen game against Silkeborg IF on 29 August 2013. His first Danish Superliga appearance happened on 6 October 2013 when he was subbed in during the 74th minute against Viborg FF.[3]

While playing for AaB, Spalvis has earned the nickname "Zweimal" meaning "twice" in German. He earned this nickname because he, for every match in which he scored a goal, always scored a second goal in the game as well. This streak held for 5 matches, until scoring just one goal against OB on 24 August 2015.

In the first half of the 2015-16 Danish Superliga Season, he had impressively scored 14 goals in 17 league matches, leading to transfer rumors about Spalvis moving to Galatasaray[4] and Sporting Clube de Portugal.[5]

On February 8 2016, it was confirmed, that Spalvis will move to Sporting Clube de Portugal[6] from July 1 2016. He would therefore play in AaB to the end of the 2015-16 Danish Superliga-season.

International

He has played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut in senior team, in a friendly match against Kazakhstan.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 1 May 2016[7]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
AaB 2013–14 Danish Superliga 17 8 5 3 0 0 25 11
2014–15 6 0 0 0 2 0 8 1
2015–16 26 17 1 1 - 27 18
Total 49 25 6 4 2 0 61 30
Career total 49 25 6 4 2 0 61 30

International

As of match played 26 March 2016.[8]
Lithuania national team
Year Apps Goals
2014 4 1
2015 6 1
2016 2 0
Total 12 2

International goals

Scores and results list Lithuania's score first.

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Source
1. 6 June 2014 PGE Arena Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland  Poland 1–0 1–2 Friendly [9]
2. 8 September 2015 LFF Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania  San Marino 2–1 2–1 UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying [10]

Honours

Club

AaB

Individual

  • Lithuanian Footballer of the Year (1): 2015
  • Best player in the fall 2015, Superliga.
  • Player of the Month, Superliga (2): April, 2014 and October, 2015.
  • UEFA Top Scorer

References

  1. ^ a b c "Spalvis og den tyske omvej til den danske top". tipsbladet.dk (in Danish). Tipsbladet ApS. 19 August 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Lukas Spalvis - AaB A/S" (in Danish). aabsport.dk. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Superligakamp AaB-Viborg FF 3-1, 06.10.2013 - SuperStats" (in Danish). superstats.dk. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  4. ^ http://sportas.lrytas.lt/futbolas/lukas-spalvis-atmete-dosnu-kinu-pasiulyma-vilioja-galatasaray.htm
  5. ^ http://www.tipsbladet.dk/nyhed/superliga/aab-i-dialog-med-sporting-lissabon-om-spalvis
  6. ^ http://www.bold.dk/fodbold/nyheder/spalvis-skifter-til-sporting-til-sommer/
  7. ^ "L.Spalvis". http://uk.soccerway.com/. Soccerway. Retrieved 7 January 2016. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  8. ^ Spalvis.html Lukas Spalvis at National-Football-Teams.com
  9. ^ "Poland 2 Lithuania 1". ESPN. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  10. ^ http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/qualifiers/season=2016/matches/round=2000446/match=2014017/postmatch/lineups/index.html


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