(Reuters) - Caretaker coach Igoris Pankratjevas has been put in permanent charge of Lithuania and will lead the Baltic country into the Euro 2016's qualifiers, the domestic football federation said.
"Pankratjevas was the best candidate because he knows the national team well enough to continue the previous work straight away," the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) said in a statement.
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