Benjaminas Zelkevičius

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Benjaminas Zelkevičius
Personal information
Date of birth (1944-02-06) 6 February 1944
Place of birthVilnius, Lithuania
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing positionManager
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1963-1967Žalgiris Vilnius
1968Shakhtar Donetsk19(3)
1969-1973Žalgiris Vilnius181(29)
Teams managed
1977-1982Žalgiris Vilnius
1985-1991Žalgiris Vilnius
1990-1991Lithuania
1992FK Austria Wien (assistant)
1995-1997Lithuania
1997KAMAZ-Chally
1998Rotor Volgograd (assistant)
1999Shinnik Yaroslavl
2000Baltika Kaliningrad (consultant)
2001-2002Lithuania
2002-2003Baltika Kaliningrad
2004-2007Liepājas Metalurgs
2009Luch-Energiya Vladivostok
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Benjaminas Zelkevičius (born 6 February 1944) is a football coach and a former striker from Lithuania. Zelkevičius has been manager of the Lithuania national football team on three separate occasions: from 1990–1991, 1995–1997, and 2001–2002. As player he had played 331 matches for the FK Žalgiris Vilnius (50 goals).

He had coached also FK Žalgiris Vilnius and Russian football club Kaliningrad.

During his playing career, he played for FC Shakhtar Donetsk in the Soviet Top League and for Žalgiris Vilnius in the Soviet First League.[1]

Honours

Champion of Latvia 2005

References

  1. "Zelkevichius Benjaminas". KLISF. Retrieved 2010-03-18. 
Preceded by
Viktors Lukins
FHK Liepājas Metalurgs manager
2004-2007
Succeeded by
Jurijs Andrejevs



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