Romas Mažeikis (born 28 April 1964) is a retired

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who played as a defender for clubs in the Soviet Union, Austria and Germany.

Club career

Born in

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, Mažeikis began playing professional football for

FK Žalgiris Futbolo klubas Žalgiris, commonly known as FK Žalgiris, Žalgiris Vilnius or simply Žalgiris, is a Lithuanian professional football club based in Vilnius. The club competes in the A Lyga, the top flight of Lithuanian football. The club wa ...

Vilnius in the

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. Žalgiris won the league in 1982, and he would spend the next seven seasons playing for the club appearing in 159

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matches. When Žalgiris left the Soviet league in 1990, he joined Georgian side

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for the remainder of the season. Mažeikis returned to the

with

FC Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (''FC Lokomotiv Moskva'', russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб "Локомотив" Москва, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three oc ...

the following season, appearing in 24 matches as the club finished in last place. After relegation, he left for Austrian side

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. He also had brief spells with Georgian side FC Antsi Tbilisi and Lithuanian side

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. In July 1993, Mažeikis moved to Germany where he would finish his career with

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International career

Mažeikis made 19 appearances for the

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from 1990 to 1994.

References

External links

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Profile at KLISF
* 1964 births Living people Soviet men's footballers Lithuanian men's footballers Lithuania men's international footballers Lithuanian expatriate men's footballers Soviet Top League players FK Žalgiris players FK Panerys Vilnius players FC Guria Lanchkhuti players FC Lokomotiv Moscow players VfB Lübeck players Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Germany People from Gargždai Men's association football defenders {{Lithuania-footy-bio-stub