Saulius Å tombergas
Saulius Štombergas ( born December 14, 1973 in Klaipėda) is a Lithuanian basketball coach and former player. While he usually ran aground in the club as a small forward, he took in the national team because of the competition in this position by Artūras Karnišovas rather the role of a Power Forwards one. Since 2013 he has been head coach of Zalgiris Kaunas.
Career
Association
In his first season in the squad Zalgiris Kaunas of Štombergas won the 1993 league and cup double in. After three years at Atletas Kaunas, he moved to China to Shanghai Vostok in the CBA, where he was one of the first international stars of the league. Back at Zalgiris Kaunas, he won within the next two seasons two other Lithuanian Championships, the European Cup Winners 'Cup in 1998 and surprisingly the European Champions Cup in 1999. Was followed by a season in Italy with children Bologna ( finalist in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2000 ), in Spain at Saski Baskonia ( finalist in the euro League 2001 ) and in Turkey with Efes Pilsen Istanbul ( league and cup double in 2002). After another Lithuanian Zalgiris Kaunas championship with Štombergas moving in 2003 to UNICS Kazan, where he celebrated winning the FIBA Euro Cup. In this club he played from 2005 to 2007, after he had been active in the 2004/05 season for Fenerbahçe Ülker. 2007 he had his career end known, which he later but only for a short time shifted in favor of a commitment to the Lithuanian second division club Palangos Naglis - Adakris. From 2009 to 2010 Štombergas was active in UNICS Kazan again.
National
Štombergas belonged for years to the most important pillars of the Lithuanian national team. His greatest success with her was winning the 2003 European Championship, where he was captain of the team and was also elected to the All- Tournament team. Other medal winnings he celebrated at the European Championships 1995 ( silver ) and the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000 (both bronze). After the 2004 Olympics, where he was a standard-bearer of the Lithuanian team, and again reached the semifinals, Štombergas ended his career in the national team. In 97 international matches, he scored a total of 1036 points for Lithuania.
Honors
Stombergas belonged in early 2008 to a circle of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the Euro League Basketball and / or basketball interested, actively fifty major personalities of the sport of basketball in Europe in the period 1958 to 2008, determine and subsequently in May 2008 in Madrid ( Spain) honor can. All nominated players have played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the Euro League basketball and belonged respectively to the most prominent ' stars' of their national league teams.