The Lithuanian national team handball player signed a long-term contract with the title-winning German club

One of the most promising Lithuanian handball players Rome Aukštikalnis linked the future with the famous Grosswallstadt club for a long time. The 20-year-old forward has signed a three-year contract with the multiple German champion and EHF Champions Cup winner.

The Grosswallstadt club currently competes in the second most powerful German league, but they do not hide their aspirations to return to the first Bundesliga. Grosswallstadt handball players have won the German championship 6 times and are inferior to only three clubs in this country according to this indicator. True, the last time Grosswallstadt won the Bundesliga was back in 1990.

Grosswallstadt has also achieved impressive victories in the international arena. Grosswallstadt twice in 1979 and 1980. became the strongest handball club in Europe, winning the EHF Champions Cup tournament (now the Champions League), winning the EHF Cup Winners’ Cup twice (1986-1987), as well as the EHF Cup (1984) and the EHF Challenge Cup (2000).

“It’s nice to receive such confidence from the Grosswallstadt club. I attended a preview for Grosswallstadt and after only a couple of training sessions, the club made a quick decision and immediately offered me a three-year contract. A long-term contract demonstrates mutual trust and provides certainty and stability for several years to come. All that remains is to work even harder in training and become an important part of the new team as soon as possible. The ambitions of the club to return to the ranks of the strongest German teams and play in the highest league are also leading forward. I am very happy with the new step in my career and am looking forward to a new challenge”, said R. Aukštikalnis.

“We invited Roma for a preview and just a few training sessions were enough to make sure that he is needed for our team. We were looking for a center player and we saw that Roma is a perfect fit for our team both because of his technical qualities and reading of the game, as well as because of his prospects of becoming an important part of the team”, said handinis.lt, the assistant to the head coach of the Grosswallstadt team and a former long-time Lithuanian who works in the youth academy. national team goalkeeper Povilas Babarskas.

R. Aukštikalnis, who started his career in Vilnius “Amber” team, later improved for half a year at the youth academy of Denmark’s top league club “Skjern”, and last February he moved to Rostock “Empor” club. The forward scored 22 goals in 18 games for Empor in Germany’s second division, but Empor were relegated to the third-tier division last season.

This season, R. Aukštikalnis scored 55 goals in 26 games and helped the Empor team get to the playoffs, where they are fighting for a ticket to the second league.

The Lithuanian will join the Grosswallstadt club at the end of July, when preparations for the next season begin.

R. Aukštikalnis will soon return to the Lithuanian national team, with whom he will fight for a ticket to 2025. world championship. In the decisive stage of the selection, Lithuanian handball players will meet with the Hungarian national team, which won the ticket to the Olympic Games in Paris. The first match will take place on May 9. The return match will be played on May 12 at Twinsbet Arena in Vilnius. in Hungary.