{"id":404843,"date":"2024-09-17T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=404843"},"modified":"2024-09-17T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:24:23","slug":"rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/","title":{"rendered":"Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an ugly loss in the final of the San Juan Olympic qualifying tournament against Puerto Rico, Kazys Maksvytis resigned from his position as coach of the Lithuanian national team. Since then, Lithuania has been searching for a coach. However, the newly elected president of the Lithuanian basketball federation, Mindaugas Balciunas, has identified <strong>Rimas Kurtinaitis as the leading candidate for Lithuania&#8217;s head coaching position.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know, we have already had meetings with Kurtinaitis,\u201d Balciunas confirmed at a press conference. \u201cI know the reasons why the deal has not been finalized yet. I have to present other candidates for the Executive Committee, but I believe that in the next two weeks we will have all the answers, including the decision of Kurtinaitis, who is undoubtedly our leading candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old coach currently works as head coach of Sabah BC in Azerbaijan. He previously worked for Rytas Vilnius, VEF Riga, Khimki BC and BC Wolves Vilnius. As a coach, Kurtinaitis has won three EuroCup titles (2009, 2012, 2015), twice the Lithuanian Basketball League (2009, 2010), twice the Lithuanian Federation Cup (2009, 2010) and the VTB League (2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindaugas Balciunas has identified Rimas Kurtinaitis as the leading candidate for Lithuania&#8217;s head coaching position. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":404840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[209,271],"tags":[2015,5779],"rumors":[],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-404843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-lithuania","tag-lithuania","tag-rimas-kurtinaitis-en","typology-rumors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mindaugas Balciunas has identified Rimas Kurtinaitis as the leading candidate for Lithuania&#039;s head coaching position.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mindaugas Balciunas has identified Rimas Kurtinaitis as the leading candidate for Lithuania&#039;s head coaching position.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sportando\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-17T15:24:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"341\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mario Alberto Vasaturo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mario Alberto Vasaturo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mario Alberto Vasaturo\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc51678f115753674a19841ed032e098\"},\"headline\":\"Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-17T15:24:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":188,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lithuania\",\"Rimas Kurtinaitis\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Europe\",\"Lithuania\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/\",\"name\":\"Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-17T15:24:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc51678f115753674a19841ed032e098\"},\"description\":\"Mindaugas Balciunas has identified Rimas Kurtinaitis as the leading candidate for Lithuania's head coaching position.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg\",\"width\":512,\"height\":341},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/\",\"name\":\"Sportando\",\"description\":\"Risultati di basket, notizie di pallacanestro, classifiche, Basket mercato, statistiche, roster, rumors NBA e tanto altro sul mondo della Pallacanestro\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc51678f115753674a19841ed032e098\",\"name\":\"Mario Alberto Vasaturo\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/43a0ede48f3a5fc6d42b7e2b2559ec2e129860f962260975457c4b754f453140?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/43a0ede48f3a5fc6d42b7e2b2559ec2e129860f962260975457c4b754f453140?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/43a0ede48f3a5fc6d42b7e2b2559ec2e129860f962260975457c4b754f453140?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Mario Alberto Vasaturo\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/author\\\/mariovasaturo\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania","description":"Mindaugas Balciunas has identified Rimas Kurtinaitis as the leading candidate for Lithuania's head coaching position.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania","og_description":"Mindaugas Balciunas has identified Rimas Kurtinaitis as the leading candidate for Lithuania's head coaching position.","og_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/","og_site_name":"Sportando","article_published_time":"2024-09-17T15:24:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":512,"height":341,"url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mario Alberto Vasaturo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mario Alberto Vasaturo","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/"},"author":{"name":"Mario Alberto Vasaturo","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/#\/schema\/person\/cc51678f115753674a19841ed032e098"},"headline":"Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania","datePublished":"2024-09-17T15:24:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/"},"wordCount":188,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg","keywords":["Lithuania","Rimas Kurtinaitis"],"articleSection":["Europe","Lithuania"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/","url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/","name":"Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg","datePublished":"2024-09-17T15:24:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/#\/schema\/person\/cc51678f115753674a19841ed032e098"},"description":"Mindaugas Balciunas has identified Rimas Kurtinaitis as the leading candidate for Lithuania's head coaching position.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg","width":512,"height":341},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rimas-kurtinaitis-is-the-leading-candidate-for-coaching-lithuania\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rimas Kurtinaitis is the leading candidate for coaching Lithuania"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/","name":"Sportando","description":"Risultati di basket, notizie di pallacanestro, classifiche, Basket mercato, statistiche, roster, rumors NBA e tanto altro sul mondo della Pallacanestro","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/#\/schema\/person\/cc51678f115753674a19841ed032e098","name":"Mario Alberto Vasaturo","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43a0ede48f3a5fc6d42b7e2b2559ec2e129860f962260975457c4b754f453140?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43a0ede48f3a5fc6d42b7e2b2559ec2e129860f962260975457c4b754f453140?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43a0ede48f3a5fc6d42b7e2b2559ec2e129860f962260975457c4b754f453140?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Mario Alberto Vasaturo"},"url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/author\/mariovasaturo\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/rimas-kurtinaitis.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404843"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=404843"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=404843"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=404843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}