Andrius Wieliczka ( lit. Andrius Velička ; April 5, 1979, Kaunas , USSR ) - Lithuanian footballer.
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Content
- 1 Club career
- 2 National team of Lithuania
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Club career
Wieliczka began his career in Kaunas . Over the 12 years of playing for Kaunas, Wieliczka has been hired three times: the first time in Anzhi Makhachkala, the second in Irtysh Pavlodar, the third in the Heart of Midlotian Edinburgh. During his career in Kaunas, Andrius played over 150 games for the club and scored over 100 goals.
He joined the team on a leasehold basis in the summer of 2006 and his debut took place on September 9, 2006 in the Scottish Championship in a match with St. Mirren . The match ended in a Hart of Midlothian defeat for acting coach Neil McCann. [2] On October 15, Wieliczka scored his first two goals in Edinburgh in a game with the Hibernian . [3]
A two-year rental at Hearts has been successful for the Lithuanian. He scored a 500 Hearts goal in the Scottish League in a match against the Rangers on Ibroks .
Rumors in the press connecting him with the move to the Norwegian Viking club were confirmed when it turned out that Hearts had accepted a bet of £ 1 million. . On February 26, 2008, he signed a four-year contract with the Viking and completed the move. Wieliczka scored his first goal for the Vikings in his debut match against Hamarkameratene on April 6, 2008 (3: 2) and Wieliczka said that he could not be happy with his goal, because otherwise the team had to play to win the match . He played 18 games and scored 6 goals in Norway.
Lithuanian national team
He made his debut in the national team in the match Lithuania - Moldova on August 16, 1998. At the 80th minute of the meeting, Wieliczka replaced Valdas Trakis . [4] The next match for Andrius was the match in April 2002 against Yugoslavia .
The player scored his first goal for the national team on July 3, 2003 in Valga in a match against Estonia . At 72 minutes after his strike, the score was 3: 1. The result of the match: the victory of the Lithuanians with a score of 5: 1. [5]
Notes
- ↑ Transfermarkt.com - 2000.
- ↑ Hearts 0-1 St. Mirren Archived February 17, 2009 at Wayback Machine Soccerbase, September 9, 2006
- ↑ Hibernian 2-2 Hearts BBC Sport website, October 15, 2006
- ↑ Lithuania 1-1 Moldova Archived on August 12, 2012.
- ↑ Estonia 1-5 Lithuania Archived on June 21, 2008. Omnitel.net, June 15, 2008