Valdas Ivanauskas
Valdas Ivanauskas ( born July 31, 1966 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian football coach and former football player.
Playing career
Clubs
Ivanauskas ' first club was Vėtra Vilnius Rūdiškės, where he played in youth. About Zalgiris Vilnius, then in the highest Soviet League play, he came to Moscow, where he played at CSKA Moscow. Then he went back to his home and played four years at his former club Zalgiris Vilnius, with whom in 1990 he won the Baltic League, but then switched back to Moscow to city club locomotive. 1991, when the Soviet Union was finally disintegrate, he went to Austria for FK Austria Wien. He won between 1991 and 1993 with Austria, the Austrian Championship three times, and in 1992 the trophy. Ivanauskas was twice simplifying internal scorer in 1993 one of his hits to the " Goal of the Year " in Austria was chosen.
From 1993 to 1997 he played 91 Bundesliga games for Hamburger SV, in which he scored 13 goals and was the first player from Lithuania in German professional football. Because of his fiery, impetuous nature, he received in the Bundesliga nicknamed " Ivan the Terrible ". A change to VfL Wolfsburg failed in 1997 at the objection of his wife Beatrix, who could not imagine living in Wolfsburg. It was followed by a change back to Austria, for SV Austria Salzburg. From 1999 to 2001 he played again in Germany at SV Wilhelmshaven, with whom he descended from the Regionalliga Nord in the league. He ended his career as an active player at BV Cloppenburg after one season as a sweeper of the then Oberliga.
National
He made his international debut in 1988 for the national team of the USSR, for whom he played five games. After the restoration of Lithuania's independence, he completed 28 caps (8 goals) for Lithuania national team.
Coaching career
Ivanauskas In 2002 he obtained his coaching license at the German Sport University in Cologne in 2003 and worked as an assistant coach of the Lithuanian national team during qualifying for the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal.
As a club coach Ivanauskas worked in the 2004/05 season at the FBK Kaunas in Lithuania and was then assistant coach in Scotland Heart of Midlothian. The Scottish club has a Lithuanian President and thus close ties to the home country of Ivanauskas. After working as assistant coach Graham Rix in March 2006 he became first for interim head coach. After winning the National Cup and the second place in the league but there was no doubt more to his skills and Ivanauskas finally became a head coach. This office he had to resign in March 2007 due to ongoing health problems, however.
On 21 September 2007 took the Thuringian the second division FC Carl Zeiss Jena. Ivanauskas but could not meet the expectations placed on him and was therefore discharged on 22 December of the same year. After a brief involvement with the Lithuanian club Banga Gargždai he took over on 14 November 2008 as the interim coach the U-18 national team of Lithuania. Other coaches offices he held at standard Sumqayıt in Azerbaijan, at FK Šiauliai in Lithuania and FC Dila Gori in Georgia.
Achievements
As a player
- Austrian Champion: 1991, 1992 and 1993 with FK Austria Wien
- Austrian Cup Winners' Cup: 1992 with FK Austria Wien
- Austrian Supercup Winner: 1991, 1992 and 1993 with FK Austria Wien
- Player of the year in Lithuania: 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994
- Baltic League Tournament winner: 1990
- Baltic Cup winner: 1994 ( Baltikummeister )
As coach
- Lithuanian champion: 2005 ( FBK Kaunas)
- Scottish Cup Winners' Cup: 2006 ( Heart of Midlothian )
Awards
- Player of the year in Lithuania: 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994