Artūras Rimkevičius (14 April 1983 – 23 September 2019) was a
Lithuanian footballer
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who played as a
striker.
He committed suicide by gunshot on 23 September 2019, aged 36.
Career
Club
Artūras played for
FK Tauras Tauragė
Tauragės futbolo klubas, commonly known as FK Tauras or simply Tauras, is a Lithuanian professional football club based in Tauragė. The club competes in the II Lyga, the third tier of Lithuanian football.
History
The club was founded 1922 in t ...
,
FBK Kaunas
Kauno futbolo ir beisbolo klubas, commonly known as FBK Kaunas, was a Lithuanian football club from the city of Kaunas.
History
Banga Kaunas (1960–1993)
Originally the team was founded in 1960 as Banga Kaunas and played its first three years ...
,
FK Liepājas Metalurgs
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,
FK Silute,
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Place ...
, FK Bekentas,
Atlantis FC
Atlantis FC is a Finnish football club, based in Helsinki. It currently plays in the third tier of Finnish football (''Kakkonen'').
History
The club was founded in late 1995 when Johanneksen Dynamo (founded 1980) and FC Norssi (founded 1985) m ...
. and
Asteras Tripoli F.C.
Artūras is the current holder of the Lithuanian football record of most goals scored in a single season, 35.
Artūras was expected to complete a move to Scottish side
Heart of Midlothian in January 2013. However the deal did not go through. He played for 2012 Singapore League Runners-up and League Cup champions,
Brunei DPMM FC.
In May 2014 he returned to Kaunas and signed with
FC Stumbras
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.
National
Artūras made his international debut against
Latvia
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in June 2010, scoring three times for his country in seven caps, one against
Estonia
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and two against
Armenia
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.
International goals
Tributes
Since
2019 A Lyga
The 2019 A Lyga was the 30th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier association football league of Lithuania. The season began on 2 March 2019 and ended on 27 November 2019.
Sūduva Marijampolė began the season as defending champions having won thei ...
season, the A Lyga Top Scorer award has been posthumously renamed as Artūras Rimkevičius Trophy.
References
External links
Artūras Rimkevičius InterviewArtūras Rimkevičius: "No European club has offered me as much as Brunei"
1983 births
2019 deaths
A Lyga players
Men's association football forwards
Asteras Tripolis F.C. players
Atlantis FC players
DPMM FC players
Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. players
Expatriate men's footballers in Brunei
Expatriate men's footballers in Finland
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia
FBK Kaunas footballers
FC Stumbras players
FK Ekranas players
FK Liepājas Metalurgs players
FK Tauras Tauragė players
FC Šiauliai players
FK Šilutė players
Football League (Greece) players
I Lyga players
Kakkonen players
Latvian Higher League players
Lithuania men's international footballers
Lithuanian expatriate men's footballers
Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Brunei
Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Finland
Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia
Lithuanian men's footballers
Singapore Premier League players
Suicides by firearm in Lithuania
Super League Greece players
Ykkönen players
2019 suicides
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