The third week of youth football – a successful debut for the thirteen-year-olds and a home run for the fifteen-year-olds.

In the third week of August, the young footballers of the “Šiauliai” football academy managed to win the first points in the new 2022/2023 season.

Samsung Galaxy Watch EJL U18 division: Šiauliai FA – Šiauliai SG – PRSSG 0:0 (2:3) Kaunas Žalgiris FA

Removed: Dominykas Kviklys

On Saturday, the 18-year-olds, led by Rimantas Viktoravičius and Aurim Mančas, welcomed guests from Kaunas – peers of “Kaunas Žalgiris FA” at home. Just like last week – a day earlier, after some of the players played a lot of minutes in the double match of the 18th round of the Optibet First League in Mazeikiai, the next day the youngsters had nothing to do they had to compete less for a team of boys of their own age. On the field, the majority of the match was a close fight – the teams exchanged dangerous attacks both to one side and to the other side, but the latter could not achieve their results. However, in the 68th minute of the match, the referee on the field assigned 11 a one-meter penalty to the goal of the Kaunas team, but the Šiauliai team failed to realize it when Juoz Radavičius’ shot was saved by the opponent’s goalkeeper. After the final signal of the referee, the result on the scoreboard did not change, so the battle for points moved to a 11-meter penalty shoot-out, in which success already accompanied the guests from Kaunas. The result for the Šiauliat team was 2 :3 had to admit nti the advantage of Kaunas and to settle for the first point won in the Samsung Galaxy Watch EJL division.

Samsung Galaxy Watch EJL U15 division: FA “Šiauliai” – Šiauliai SG 3:1 Talenti FA – FK “Riteriai”

Goals: Nikita Tiutiunnyk, Vējas Pocius and Džiugas Dulka.

On Sunday, the 15-year-olds coached by Vilias Lapeikis and Donatas Strockis hosted the guests from Vilnius and recorded their second victory in a row in the debut Samsung Galaxy Watch EJL division. The people of Šiauliai, who dominated most of the match, broke the ice at the visitors’ goal already in the 20th minute of the meeting, when Ukrainian Nikita Tiutiunnyk disarmed the goalkeeper with a precise shot. Not long after, right before the end of the first half, the advantage of the Šiauliai team was doubled by a precise shot by Vēios Pociaus – 2:0. After the break, the team’s coaching staff made a couple of adjustments, which definitely paid off. In the 44th minute of the match, Džiugas Dulka consolidated the advantage of Šiauliai by sending the ball into the goal – 3:1. The guests from Šiauliai still tried to catch up, when Vytenis Rimkus outwitted Ignas Aleksandravičius in the 51st minute, but the Vilnius team could no longer catch up with ours. After this victory, the footballers of the city of the sun are in the 3rd position of the standings.

Lithuanian Youth League U14 division: FA “Šiauliai” 1:1 (5:3) Vilnius “BFA”

Goal: Kipras Šakinskas

Fourteen-year-olds from our academy also won the first points. The confrontation between the students of Donatas Strockis and Vilias Lapeikis and the guests from the capital city marked the dramatic end of the 2nd round, which strained the nerves of more than one fan who came to the Gytarii artificial surface stadium. During all the matches, both football players went hand in hand and created a number of chances at the opponents’ goal, but luck was still lacking to successfully fulfill them. However, already in the 67th minute of the meeting, Kipras Šakinskas had his say, whose accurate shot allowed the people of Šiauliai to take the lead, but already in the last seconds of the referee’s added time, the people of Vilnius managed to equalize the result and moved the fight for points to a penalty shootout. Success was already on the side of the Šiauliai team, and the latter beat the Vilnius team with a score of 5:3 and added 2 very important points to their score.

Lithuanian Youth League U13 division: FA “Šiauliai” 1:0 “Be1” NFA

Goal: Vakiris Gurtajus

The students of Tad Šalkauskas and Remigijaus Vaišnors marked their debut in major football with a minimal victory at home. The promising thirteen-year-olds growing up in Šiauliai welcomed the guests from Kaunas, the European Capital of Culture in 2022, on a hot Thursday afternoon at the Gytarii artificial cover stadium. The sweltering heat was not very generous to either team, but it did not bother the Šiauliai team, and at the end of the first half of the meeting, an accurate shot by Vakaris Gurtaius allowed the latter to take the lead. In the second half, the people from Šiauliai managed to preserve the minimal advantage gained in the first half of the match and after the final signal of Tad Šimkaus, recorded their first victory in the new division of the Lithuanian Youth League.