Saulius Mikoliūnas
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 2 May 1984 | ||
Place of birth | Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR | ||
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Position(s) | Right winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Žalgiris Vilnius | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2002–2003 | Šviesa Vilnius | 13 | (1) |
2003 | Ekranas | 16 | (0) |
2004–2009 | FBK Kaunas | 23 | (0) |
2005–2009 | → Hearts (loan) | 102 | (11) |
2009–2013 | Arsenal Kyiv | 78 | (6) |
2013–2014 | Sevastopol | 16 | (0) |
2014–2015 | Shakhtyor Soligorsk | 32 | (4) |
2015– | Žalgiris Vilnius | ||
International career‡ | |||
2004– | Lithuania | 68 | (5) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 December 2015 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 October 2014 |
Saulius Mikoliūnas (born 2 May 1984 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian professional footballer playing for Žalgiris Vilnius. He is a Lithuanian international and has played for Scottish Premier League club Hearts and FBK Kaunas. Mikoliūnas also represented Lithuania at under-21 level.
Hearts
On 2 March 2005, during a match against Rangers at Tynecastle Stadium, Mikoliūnas received a double red card from referee Hugh Dallas. The player was initially sent off for barging linesman Andy Davis after a controversial penalty decision. He received a second card for later swearing at Dallas.[1] Since that incident, Mikoliūnas has been sent off twice more against Rangers, both as a second-half substitute.
Mikoliūnas was a regular in the first team for Hearts, however inconsistency always dogged his Hearts career. He silenced many critics with the winner at Tynecastle vs city rivals Hibernian on 26 December 2006. Mikoliūnas announced on 2 December 2008 that he wanted to leave the Edinburgh club after the 2008–09 season, to take up a new football challenge after spending four years at the club. On 27 April 2009, it was confirmed with immediate effect that the midfielder and his Lithuanian colleague Deividas Česnauskis had left Hearts.[2]
The following month, Mikoliūnas states he was to sign for Swansea City on a free transfer during the summer transfer window, but the move broke down after Swansea manager Roberto Martínez moved to Wigan Athletic.[3]
Eventually, Mikoliūnas signed a three-year contract with Ukrainian side Arsenal Kyiv.[4]
Position
Mikoliūnas is a right-sided winger who sometimes plays in the right-back position.
Honours
FBK Kaunas
- Lithuanian A Lyga: 2004
- Lithuanian Cup: 2004
- Lithuanian Super Cup: 2004
Hearts FC
- Scottish Cup: 2005–06
International
Mikoliūnas has scored four times in his ten-year international career. Having made his debut in 2004, he scored his first international goal in 2007 against Georgia. He followed that up a year later with a second goal, against Romania. On 11 October 2013, in 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification he scored his most recent goal: against Latvia in a 2-0 home vicotry.
Every time that Mikoliūnas has scored for Lithuania, the team have won the match and kept a clean-sheet.
In 2011, he scored again against Poland before in a surprising 2-0 win.
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 2 June 2007 | S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas | Georgia | 1–0 | 1–0 | UEFA Euro 2008 |
2. | 6 September 2008 | Gruia Stadium, Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Romania | 2–0 | 3–0 | FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifying |
3. | 25 March 2011 | S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas | Poland | 1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly match |
4. | 11 October 2013 | LFF stadium, Vilnius | Latvia | 2–0 | 2–0 | FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying |
5. | 9 October 2014 | LFF stadium, Vilnius | Estonia | 1–0 | 1–0 | UEFA Euro 2016 |
References
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External links
- Saulius Mikoliunas career statistics at Soccerbase
- Saulius Mikoliūnas at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Hearts Appearances at londonhearts.com
- Saulius Mikoliūnas at Soccerway
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- 1984 births
- Lithuanian footballers
- Lithuania international footballers
- Lithuanian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Scotland
- Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
- FBK Kaunas footballers
- FC Vilnius players
- Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
- FC Arsenal Kyiv players
- Living people
- Scottish Premier League players
- Ukrainian Premier League players
- Expatriate footballers in Belarus
- FC Shakhtsyor Salihorsk players
- VMFD Žalgiris Vilnius players
- Articles with dead external links from October 2010