Artūras Rimkevičius (14 April 1983 – 23 September 2019) was a Lithuanian

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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 FK Liepājas Metalurgs ( lv, Futbola klubs "Liepājas metalurgs") was a Latvian football club in the city of Liepāja and playing in the Virslīga. They played at the Daugava Stadium (capacity 5,083). In 2005 Liepājas Metalurgs became the fir ...

, FK Silute,

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, 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 Football Club Stumbras was a professional football club, based in Kaunas, Lithuania, which played in A Lyga, the top tier of Lithuanian football. Founded in 2013 on the basis of the NFA, the club has reached the heights of Lithuanian football in ...

National

Artūras made his international debut against

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in June 2010, scoring three times for his country in seven caps, one against

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and two against

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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 Interview

Artūras 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 {{Lithuania-footy-bio-stub