How quiz-show winnings kick-started coach's career - with Old Trafford next

Dambrauskas says he had known since the age of 12 he would not make it as a player, but coaching would keep him close to football.He arrived in London in August 2002 aged 25 on a student visa with limited English.What followed would be eight years of hard work where he would coach for community projects, at a semi-professional club, within professional youth programmes - and hold down multiple jobs while raising two children. In 2004 he enrolled on a course in sports science and coaching at London Metropolitan University, the first real step in his career.Then he started out coaching by volunteering with the Access to Sports Project for deprived children in Finsbury Park.He went on to work with London Tigers, a charitable community organisation which runs teams from junior level right through to semi-professional.Starting out as a volunteer, across five years he progressed to manage the first team in non-league football in the Spartan South Midlands League, FA Cup and FA Vase.Dambrauskas became the first Lithuanian to achieve a Uefa coaching licence through the London Football Association."I went on every possible course, every possible conference, London Football Coaches Associati...