Where is the USSR football player now and what the Olympics took to see: 35 years ago he left for Europe

He still lives on two countries. In November 2003, to the 50th anniversary of UEFA, Olympic champion Seoul Arminas Narbecovas He was called the Lithuanian Football Federation to the best Lithuanian football player for half a century. In the 80s, he, together with Arvidas Janonis, shone as part of Salgiris, and with the collapse of the country left the Moscow Lokomotiv to Austria, where he played before 2009. For these 20 years he managed to change seven clubs, take three championships and two cups of the country with Austria, win the second league with Admi Wacker and the regional league with Winner Shport Club ”, get a prize to the best football player of the regional league at 38 years old and even Austrian citizenship.“ At 38, I was recognized as the best player and the best defender of the country's regional championship. In defense, you run much less. The teammates congratulate them, and I shout to them: “Idiots, you don’t need to congratulate me, but cry! If I'm 38 Best, how do you play all?! ” And they answer me: “You are a dunce, Arminas, you don’t understand your happiness!” Narbekovas laughed. After his career was completed, Arminas worked as an assistant to the head coach in Austrian clubs, his native “Salgiris” and the national team of Lithuania, and then headed the youth, Spartak from Jurmala and Atlantas. Narbekovas moved away from coaching affairs and opened a football academy for young children in Lithuania. Until now, he is engaged in her and lives on two countries – Lithuania and Austria.PHOTOHis family lives in Vienna, who does not want to move. But Arminas does not insist: “Children already have an absolutely local mentality. And how else, if the son of Arminas was only four years old, when we arrived in Austria, and Claudia’s daughter was born there? ”Now more than 1000 children are training at the Narbekovas Academy, with whom about 40 coaches and athletics specialists work. After the death in 2024, the Arminas partner Antanas Vinciilius, the Academy became part of the Vilnius football Academy under the leadership of the ex-impaired Lithuanian national team Darwidas Shyarnas.