Tomas Žvirgždauskas

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Personal information
Tomas Žvirgždauskas
Full name	Tomas Žvirgždauskas
Date of birth	March 18, 1975 (1975-03-18) (age 33)
Place of birth	Vilnius, Soviet Union (now Lithuania)
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Halmstads BK
Number	12
Youth clubs
????-1990	Zalgiris Vilnius
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991-1995 1995-1996 1996 1996-2001 2001-2002 2002-	Zalgiris Vilnius Naestved BK Zalgiris Vilnius Polonia Warszawa Widzew Lodz Halmstads BK	38 0(1) 4 0(0) 12 0(1) 112 0(0) 10 0(0) 136 0(5)
National team
????-1996 1997-	Lithuania U21 Lithuania	030 0(0) 045 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Tomas Žvirgždauskas (born March 18, 1975) is a football defender from Lithuania. He has played 45 international games for Lithuania. His career started in Zalgiris Vilnius, where he won the Lithuanian league title twice. He moved on to the Polish Premier League, where he won the title with Polonia Warszawa and played a short period for Widzew Lodz, he then went on a trial at the israeli club Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C. but failed to get a contract, in September 2002 he signd a contract with the swedish club Halmstads BK.

Halmstads BK's supporters have given him the nickname "Zvirre" since they found his last name hard to pronounce in the beginning.

In his youth he played basketball and his father wanted him to be a boxer, but he stopped when his mother, a doctor, forbade him, due to her fear of seeing him get hurt^[1].