Lukas Spalvis

Lukas Spalvis
Personal information
Full name Lukas Spalvis
Date of birth (1994-07-27) 27 July 1994
Place of birth Vilnius, Lithuania
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Sporting CP
Number 33
Youth career
2009–2011 SV Weil 1910[1]
2011–2012 SC Freiburg[1]
2012–2013 AaB
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 AaB 53 (26)
2016– Sporting CP 0 (0)
National team‡
2012–2013 Lithuania U19 3 (0)
2014–2015 Lithuania U21 8 (4)
2014– Lithuania 18 (2)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 08 May 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17 November 2015

Lukas Spalvis (born 27 July 1994)[2] is a Lithuanian professional footballer playing for Portuguese Primeira Liga side Sporting CP

Early years

Lukas Spalvis was born in Lithuania. When he was six, he emigrated with his mother from Lithuania and settled in Switzerland in Basel. While living in Basel, he went to a German school.[1]

Career

Club

Youth until 2012

Spalvis joined in 2010 the SV Weil 1910 from Weil am Rhein, the German neighboring town of Basel. In 2011 he joined the youth (Fußballschule) of SC Freiburg.


Aalborg BK/ AaB

He joined the club as a youth player in 2012 and was promoted to the first team squad in the summer of 2013. He got his first match for AaB when he was in the line up in the DBU Pokalen game against Silkeborg IF on 29 August 2013. His first Danish Superliga appearance happened on 6 October 2013 when he was subbed in during the 74th minute against Viborg FF.[3]

While playing for AaB, Spalvis has earned the nickname "Zweimal" meaning "twice" in German. He earned this nickname because he, for every match in which he scored a goal, always scored a second goal in the game as well. This streak held for 5 matches, until scoring just one goal against OB on 24 August 2015.

In the first half of the 2015-16 Danish Superliga Season, he had impressively scored 14 goals in 17 league matches, leading to transfer rumors about Spalvis moving to Galatasaray[4] and Sporting Clube de Portugal.[5]

On February 8 2016, it was confirmed, that Spalvis will move to Sporting Clube de Portugal[6] from July 1 2016. He would therefore play in AaB to the end of the 2015-16 Danish Superliga-season.

International

He has played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut in senior team, in a friendly match against Kazakhstan.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 1 May 2016[7]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Continental Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
AaB 2013–14 Danish Superliga 17853002511
2014–15 60002081
2015–16 261711-2718
Total 492564206130
Career total 492564206130

International

As of match played 26 March 2016.[8]
Lithuania national team
YearAppsGoals
201441
201561
201620
Total122

International goals

Scores and results list Lithuania's score first.

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Source
1. 6 June 2014 PGE Arena Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland  Poland 1–0 1–2 Friendly [9]
2. 8 September 2015 LFF Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania  San Marino 2–1 2–1 UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying [10]

Honours

Club

AaB

Individual

References


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