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A two-year employment contract will be signed with the 43-year-old soccer strategist from Vilnius, and the coach will start work on January 11, when this year’s FC Hegelmann Litauen club’s first training session will take place.
Artūras Ramoška, the chief strategist of last year’s team, will also work on the new coach’s team, will be a member of the Skerla staff and will work with the club’s goalkeepers. Another specialist remains in the team: Tadas Vilkevičius.
“Why we chose Andrius? As a player, he has accumulated extensive experience in international football, as well as during his short coaching career he has already worked for the Lithuanian national and youth team.
We believe that as a specialist he has a very high potential to improve and become a very good coach. I think this year we will have a great coaching staff.
I expect quality work and dedication from the coach. The most important thing is to have quality and useful training for the players, so that our young people improve, of which we will have more than this year ”, said Dainius Šumauskas, executive director of FC Hegelmann Litauen, about the new club coach.
During his football career, the new Blue-Baltic coach played in Vilnius Žalgiris, Eindhoven PSV (Netherlands), Danfermlain Athletic (Scotland), Tomsk Tom (Russia), Vilnius Vėtra, Kiela Korona (Poland), in the Jagiellonia clubs of Białystok (Poland).
After finishing his football career, A. Skerla became Vilnius “Žalgiris” assistant, later he was appointed head coach of the capital club’s reserve team.
From 2017 to 2019, A. Skerla served as the head of the Lithuanian Under-21 team. as an assistant coach and also held the position of Chief Director of the Technical Department of the Lithuanian Football Federation.
During 2020 European Championship Selection and 2020-2021. He worked for the UEFA League of Nations in the country’s national team at the Valdas Urbonas headquarters.
In addition, former Vilnius soccer player Žalgiris has been working as head coach of the Lithuanian U-15 youth team since early 2020.
The new Blue and White strategist is the second player to play the most games for the men’s national soccer team: 84. He has scored 1 goal.
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