Algimantas Briaunys (born 3 November 1964) is a

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n professional

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coach and a former

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. He played the position of

. He won a total of four international caps for the

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Coaching career

From 2003 to 2004, Briaunys was manager of

FK Atlantas FK Atlantas was a Lithuanian professional football club based in the port city of Klaipėda. The club's name has changed several times. It was established in 1962 as ''Granitas'', and became ''PSK Aras'' in 1993. Since 1996, when FK Sirijus Kl ...

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lfe.lt In 2005, he then worked as goalkeeper coach for

FC Flora FC Flora, commonly known as Flora Tallinn, or simply as Flora, is an Estonian professional football club based in Tallinn that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home ground is Lilleküla Stadium. Fo ...

and later from 2006 to 2008 for

FCI Levadia Tallinn Football Club Infonet Levadia Tallinn, commonly known as FCI Levadia, or simply as Levadia, is a professional Association football , football club based in Tallinn that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football league sy ...

. In 2009, Briaunys was appointed manager of

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. He left in 2010 and became assistant manager of

in 2011 and later also goalkeeper coach at the club. At the end of 2011, Briaunys was hired as goalkeeper coach of

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and in September 2012, he was appointed manager of the club. He left the manager post in April 2013 and continued as goalkeeper coach of the club. In July 2019, he joined

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as assistant manager and in September 2019, he became manager for the rest of the season after the departure of Viačeslavu Geraščenka.

Honours

;Flora *

Meistriliiga Meistriliiga (), officially known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons, and commonly known as the Premium Liiga, is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football championship. The league was founded i ...

champion: 1993–94, 1994–95 *

runner-up: 1995–96 *

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winner: 1994–95 ;Žalgiris *

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runner-up: 1996–97, 1997–98 *

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winner: 1997 ;Liepājas Metalurgs *

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runner-up:

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

bronze:

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

;Atlantas *

runner-up:

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

Individual

Manager of the Month: June/July 2016

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* 1964 births People from Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast Living people Soviet men's footballers FK Atlantas players FK Sirijus Klaipėda players Lithuanian men's footballers FC Presnya Moscow players Lithuanian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Russian Premier League players FC Halychyna Drohobych players Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine FC Flora players Expatriate men's footballers in Estonia Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Estonia F.C. Copenhagen players Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Pärnu JK Tervis players FK Žalgiris players FK Liepājas Metalurgs players Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia Lithuania men's international footballers Lithuanian football managers Lithuanian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Russia JK Sillamäe Kalev managers Expatriate football managers in Estonia Men's association football goalkeepers Meistriliiga players {{Lithuania-footy-bio-stub