Vytas Gašpuitis Joins Dunfermline

DAFC are delighted to announce the signing of Lithuanian internationalist, Vytas Gašpuitis.

Vytas is a 6ft 5” central defender, who can play on either the right or left side and is comfortable playing in a back three, if required.

All being well, Vytas will be a DAFC player for the next two and half years, but due to the extra restrictions imposed by Brexit in terms of the new immigration rules, coupled with the current challenges imposed by the Covid lockdown, there is still further paperwork to be completed to obtain a long term visa for Vytas. However, Vytas will be free to train and play with the squad.

Manager Stevie Crawford said:-

“We were scouring and leaving no stone uncovered. Vytas was brought to our attention by an agent but Andrius Skerla has played a big part in this when we started doing our homework. You cannot go out physically and watch a player just now. Vytas has broken into the Lithuanian international team recently, he is 26, he can play left centre back, right centre back and as third centre back if you are playing three.

“He is at a good age for a centre half to come to a club that gives him an opportunity to play in the UK. Once he got speaking to the chairman and myself he has been happy to commit himself for two and a half years.”

Dunfermline Athletic would like to thank the SFA Exceptions Panel and Vytas’s agent, KVD player agency for their help and patience, and once again Thorntons Law LLP for their expertise and diligence. In addition, our thanks must go to Pars Legend, Andrius Skerla (who was the Assistant National Coach of Lithuania) who was instrumental in bringing Vytas to East End Park.

We look forward to integrating Vytas into the squad in the coming days. He entered a period of self isolation after an exhausting 21 hour journey to Dunfermline on Sunday, after leaving his family in Lithuania travelling via Latvia, France, Manchester and then on to Edinburgh!

Finally, we would also like to pass on our sincere thanks to Marie Hendry who has kindly offered to provide Vytas with his food shopping during his period of self isolation, and Sandy Wyse who has kindly offered to provide tuition lessons to Vytas to further improve his already very good English. Once again, the Pars Family rallies in support!

We welcome Vytas to our club.