Official: Žaliūkas extends contract with "Hearts" © EuroFootball.com

Marius Žaliūkas has signed a new contract with the Edinburgh club and will represent them until the summer of 2013.

The Lithuanian national team member has formally belonged to "FBK Kaunas" for the past four years and was only loaned to the Scottish team. This footballer's contract was supposed to expire in December of this year.

Negotiations for an extension of the contract were stuck for a while, so Žaliūkas was removed from the main team, but returned to it a few weeks ago.

At the moment, the Lithuanian is the team captain.