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Lithuania Sports

Of the three Baltic states, Lithuania is probably best known as a sports nation. This is primarily because of its national basketball teams, which are consistently among the top three or four in the world.

Football (Soccer): Basketball has long been No. 1 in Lithuania, but football's increasingly popular. Lithuania's international matches are played at Zalgiris Stadium, located just north of the river in central Vilnius at Rinktines 3. For more information contact the Lithuanian Football Association, Seimyniskiu 15, tel. 263-8741.

In the Lithuanian Premiership, champions Kareda Siauliai FC are always on track to win again. The other two strong teams in Lithuania are Ekranas Panevezys FC and Zalgiris Vilnius FC.

Hockey: Lithuania doesn't have a strong hockey system, so most good players go abroad. To the deep disappointment, and even embarrassment of many Lithuanians, the nation's top hockey player, Darius Kasparaitis, plays for the Russian national team. Pittsburgh's Kasparaitis is considered one of the most valuable and hard-checking defensemen in the NHL. A rising Lithuanian star is Philadelphia's 20-year-old winger Dainius Zubrus.

Basketball: In domestic leagues, the perennial powerhouse is Zalgiris Kaunas, which has also brought in several ex-NBA players; they were European champions in 1999. Having won the prestigious European Cup over all other clubs in Europe in 1997, Zalgiris earned a place in the EuroLeague, the top echelon of basketball on the continent-and then won its championship in 1999. Lithuania has two players in the NBA, both of them star centers: Arvydas Sabonis of Portland and Zydrunas Ilgauskas of Cleveland. In 1998, despite a much-publicized victory over the US team in the World Championships, Lithuania faltered and lost in the latter rounds. The national team won bronze in the last two Olympics.

Lithuanian basketball is back on top of the world, well, at least of Europe—after winning the European Championships for the first time since the then-dominant Lithuanians won in 1939 and 1937. The September, 2003 victory over favored Spain by a 93-84 margin prompted displays of euphoria in the streets of basketball-crazed Lithuania, which has long been to European basketball what Indiana is to the United States.

By making it to the finals, Lithuania automatically qualified for the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where they will be favorites for a medal. They had only one NBA player at the European Championships in Sweden, but could have three in Athens—should twin towers Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who plays for Cleveland, and Robertas Javtokas, who plays for San Antonio, be fully fit to play by then.

One ESPN analyst waxed poetically about what he described how Lithuanians are “loaded with sharp-shooters who need just a little bit of daylight to knock down a 3-pointer” and “who rarely make mistakes.” And Lithuanian fans, he went on, “are the rowdiest fans in the world. They blow ear-piercing whistles that sound like a massive swarm of killer bees from the jump ball to the final buzzer—but only when the opponents are on offense.”
Since independence, Lithuania has won three Olympic bronze medals. During Communist rule, Lithuanians made up the bulk of the gold-medal-winning Soviet teams, and they comprised the core of Soviet teams that won the European Championship eight straight times starting in 1957. Many considered Lithuania a chief pioneer of European basketball before the war—at a time when few countries on the continent paid the sport much heed.

         

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