Linas Pilibaitis

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Personal information
Linas Pilibaitis
Date of birth	April 5, 1985 (age 21)
Place of birth	Kretinga, Lithuania
Height	181 cm
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Heart of Midlothian
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002-present 2004 2007-present	FBK Kaunas → Atlantas Klaipėda (loan) → Hearts (loan)	53 (6) 08 (2) 03 (0)
National team²
2006-present	Lithuania	03 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:54, 27 March 2007 (UTC). ² National team caps and goals correct as of 02:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Linas Pilibaitis (born 5 April 1985, in Kretinga) is a Lithuanian professional footballer currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Heart of Midlothian on loan from FBK Kaunas.

Pilibaitis joined Kaunas aged 17 in 2002, gradually working his way into the first team as he developed in the following years. This process was aided by a loan spell at Klaipėda side FK Atlantas in 2004, where he scored his first senior goal. Having played a prominent role in Kaunas's 2006 A Lyga victory, he was loaned to Hearts in January 2007.^[1] He made his debut for the Maroons in a 2-0 victory at Motherwell on 5 March 2007.

Usually played as an attacking midfielder or support striker, Pilibaitis earned his first international cap for Lithuania in 2006.

[edit] References

^ Hearts bring in three new players, BBC Sport, 31 January 2007

[edit] External links

Linas Pilibaitis career stats at Soccerbase
Career appearances at national-football-teams.com
Appearances at londonhearts.com

Heart of Midlothian F.C. - Current Squad

Persondata
NAME	Pilibaitis, Linas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Lithuanian footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kretinga, Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH