Dominykas Galkevičius (born 16 October 1986) is a Lithuanian former professional

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who played as a

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. He is currently the head coach of Kauno Žalgiris' B-team.

Club career

In November 2010, he came on trial to

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. In 2011, he joined

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on a two-and-a-half-year contract. In January 2013, Galkevičius joined the

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. He left the club in September 2013, joining the

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club Naftan Novopolotsk. From 2017 to 2018, he played for Stumbras. In December 2018, he moved to Kauno Žalgiris.

International career

On 25 May 2010, he made his international debut against

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Coaching career

He decided to retire at the end of 2019 and was hired as head coach for

FK Kauno Žalgiris Futbolo klubas Kauno Žalgiris (''Football club Kauno Žalgiris'') is a professional football club based in Kaunas Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states b ...

' B-team.Trenerio keliu pasukęs D.Galkevičius: „Neplanavau baigti karjeros“
15min.lt, 5 January 2020

Honours

Ekranas *

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2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

* Lithuanian Cup: 2009–10 Sūduva * A Lyga:

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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* * * 1986 births Living people Lithuanian men's footballers Lithuania men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders FK Jonava players FK Ekranas players Zagłębie Lubin players FC Belshina Bobruisk players FK Daugava (2003) players FC Naftan Novopolotsk players FK Klaipėdos Granitas players FK Atlantas players FK Sūduva players FC Stumbras players FK Kauno Žalgiris players A Lyga players Ekstraklasa players Belarusian Premier League players Latvian Higher League players Lithuanian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia Lithuanian football managers {{Lithuania-footy-bio-stub