Titas Krapikas

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Titas Krapikas
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-01-03) 3 January 1999 (age 22)
Place of birth Kaunas, Lithuania
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Spezia
Number 12
Youth career
0000–2015 NFA
2015–2019 Sampdoria
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2019 Sampdoria 0 (0)
2019– Spezia 6 (0)
National team‡
2015 Lithuania U17 3 (0)
2016–2017 Lithuania U19 9 (0)
2017– Lithuania U21 13 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:54, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10 September 2019

Titas Krapikas (born 3 January 1999) is a Lithuanian professional football who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Spezia.

Club career[]

Krapikas joined Italian club Sampdoria in 2015 and began playing for their Under-19 squad in the 2016–17 season.[1] In the 2016–17 Serie A season, he also appeared on the bench for the senior squad on 22 occasions, but did not see time on the field. For the next two seasons, he mostly stayed with the junior squad, getting 11 call-ups to the senior team in total.

On 28 June 2019, he signed a three-year contract with an additional two-year extension option with Serie B club Spezia.[2]

He made his Serie B debut for Spezia on 24 August 2019 in a game against Cittadella.[3] He established himself as Spezia's first-choice goalkeeper early in the season.

International career[]

Krapikas started to play in the national youth teams of Lithuania in 2015. He played three matches with the U-17 team, two of them in the qualifications of European Under-17 Championship 2016 in Azerbaijan.

The following year, he moved to the U-19 team. He remained there for two years, playing nine times, two in the qualifications of the European Under-19 Championship 2017 in Georgia and three in the European Under-19 Championship 2018 in Finland.

In 2017 he began his performance in the U-21 team. After 5 friendly matches, on 7 September 2018, he debuted in the official race. He played in the qualification and main competition of European Under-21 Championship 2019 in Italy and San Marino. In the home game in Gargždai against Georgia, where he played as a starter, the final score was 0–0.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Titas Krapikas at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)
  2. ^ "Mercato: Titas Krapikas nuovo portiere aquilotto" (Press release) (in Italian). Spezia. 28 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Cittadella v Spezia game report". Soccerway. 24 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Lituania U21-Georgia U21". Retrieved 30 August 2019.

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