Kęstutis Ruzgys (born 15 September 1962) is a retired

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who played in Soviet Union, Baltic states, Yugoslavia and Germany during his professional career. Ruzgys was born in

Klaipėda Klaipėda (; ; german: Memel; pl, Kłajpeda; russian: Клайпеда; sgs, Klaipieda) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. The capital of the eponymous county, it is the third largest city and the only major seaport in Lithuan ...

. He played with

FK Žalgiris Vilnius FK or fk may refer to: In arts and entertainment: * Flyer Killer, fictional automated robots in the ''Terminator'' film franchise. * Fox Kids, a former American children's television programming block. * Funky Kong, a video game character. Place ...

in the

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in addition to

OFK Beograd OFK Beograd ( sr-Cyrl, ОФК Београд – Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English: ''Belgrade Youth Football Club'') is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, more precisely in Karaburm ...

in the

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

. He won a total of three caps for the Lithuania national team, scoring no goals, while playing in

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as a professional for OFK Beograd. He ended his career playing in Germany with

Sportfreunde Siegen Sportfreunde Siegen is a German association football club based in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia. After going through insolvency in 2008, the first team was forcibly relegated to the fifth-tier NRW-Liga. Promotion to fourth division Regionallig ...

. His son Manfredas Ruzgis, born in 1997, is also a footballer, and debuted for

in 2016 aged 19.

Honours

*Granitas Klaipėda ** Lithuanian Championship: 1984 ** Lithuanian Cup: 1983 and 1986 *Sirijus Klaipėda ** Lithuanian Championship: 1990 ** Lithuanian Cup: 1990 *National Team ** Baltic Cup:

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* 1962 births Living people Sportspeople from Klaipėda Lithuanian men's footballers Lithuania men's international footballers Lithuanian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football forwards Soviet Top League players FK Atlantas players FK Žalgiris players FK Sirijus Klaipėda players FC Daugava Riga players OFK Beograd players Expatriate men's footballers in Yugoslavia Sportfreunde Siegen players Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Soviet men's footballers Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Yugoslavia Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Germany {{Lithuania-footy-bio-stub