The Executive Committee of the \u201cLietuvos krep\u0161inis\u201d<\/strong> association approved Dainius Adomaitis<\/strong> as the new head coach of the Lithuanian men\u2019s national team on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 52-year-old replaces Rimas Kurtinaitis<\/strong>, who resigned earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to resolve the coaching situation as quickly as possible and allow the new head coach to begin working on the national team candidate list, the association decided not to wait for its presidential elections on October 14<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Tuesday, secretary general Dominykas Domarkas<\/strong> invited all four candidates for the presidency to a meeting. By mutual agreement, they decided to propose Adomaitis as the new head coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 52-year-old accepted the proposal, which was officially approved by the association\u2019s Executive Committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adomaitis previously coached the Lithuanian national team from 2016 to 2019<\/strong>, replacing Jonas Kazlauskas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the past four years, he worked in Japan as head coach of Alvark Tokyo<\/strong> in the country\u2019s top division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adomaitis immediately faces a major challenge in the 2027 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lithuania will host Serbia on November 26<\/strong> in a crucial game before traveling to face Bosnia and Herzegovina on November 29<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 52-year-old returns to the Lithuanian national team after previously coaching the country from 2016 to 2019. He replaces Rimas Kurtinaitis, who resigned this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":536020,"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":[369,383],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-536021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-teams","category-world-cup","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-alle-16.36.46.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536021","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536022,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536021\/revisions\/536022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536021"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=536021"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=536021"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=536021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lithuania makes decision before presidential elections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Adomaitis returns after 2016-19 stint<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Serbia challenge awaits in November<\/h2>\n\n\n\n