Tomas Žvirgždauskas in 2010 |
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Tomas Žvirgždauskas | ||
| Date of birth | 18 March 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Vilnius, Soviet Union (Lithuania) |
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| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Halmstads BK | ||
| Number | 12 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| -1990 | Zalgiris Vilnius | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1991-1995 | Zalgiris Vilnius | 38 | (1) |
| 1995-1996 | Naestved BK | 4 | |
| 1996 | Zalgiris Vilnius | 12 | (1) |
| 1996-2001 | Polonia Warszawa | 112 | |
| 2001-2002 | Widzew Lodz | 10 | (1) |
| 2002- | Halmstads BK | 211 | (6) |
| National team‡ | |||
| -1996 | Lithuania U21 | ||
| 1998- | Lithuania | 56 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 March 2009. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Tomas Žvirgždauskas (born 18 March 1975) is a football defender from Lithuania, who plays defender for Halmstads BK.
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His career started in Zalgiris Vilnius, where he won the Lithuanian league title twice. In 1995, he moved to Danish team, Naestved BK, but only played a few games before moving back to Zalgiris Vilnius the following year. His return to Lithuania was short, as he moved yet again shortly thereafter to the Polish Premier League and the team Polonia Warszawa, where he won the title. He later played a short period for Widzew Lodz, then going on a trial at the Israeli club, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, but failed to get a contract.[1] In September of 2002, he signed a contract with the Swedish club, Halmstads BK.
Žvirgždauskas has played 45 international games for Lithuania.
In 2006, he received a 1-month ban after assaulting IK Brage forward, Mats Theander, in a friendly match.[2]
He lives with hes wife, Aorsra, and their two children, Patricia and Jostas. His father died in 1993 due to a heart attack.[1]
In his youth, he played basketball. While his father wanted him to be a boxer, he stopped when his mother, a doctor, forbade him, due to her fear of seeing him get hurt.[3]
In every league he have played he have used nicknames rather than his own last name due to pronunciation difficulties, in Lithuania he was called Žvirgždas, in Poland Zvirac and in Sweden Zvirre.[4]
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