Comments on: Toni Lehtinen signs for Levadiakos

By: Egan

Egan — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:41:35 +0000

It has gotten cold this week Nikos, which is lovely compared to the dark and wet November and December we had here. I reiterate my desire to winter in Greece though, and return your best wishes for the New Year and (Orthodox) Christmas!

By: Nikos

Nikos — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:35:32 +0000

I forgot : I ‘d like to send my wishes for merry christmas and a happy new year too.

By: Nikos

Nikos — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:33:21 +0000

Egan: I saw your response today .I suppose you know Toni Lehtinen as a player
better than I do.Well ,I hope he helps us .Our winter is sunny here so we can’t really understand what Finnish winter is like…So I guess we may have some visitors in town now…!

By: Egan

Egan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:26:38 +0000

Well, the season is finished and players are on holiday. Most of them had contracts that ran out at the end of October, and even though they can’t actually play for a new club until January, it’s as well to get fixed up asap.

Nikos: He’s quick, skillful and confident. Sometimes over-confident. If he works hard he could become a good player. Good luck to Levadiakos, maybe you’ll get some Finnish tourists down there to see him play? Finnish winter is dark and wet, so a trip to somewhere warmer in the darker months is always a good idea.

By: Bearded Avenger

Bearded Avenger — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:21:08 +0000

Finnbrit, there’s a transfer page here:

http://finnishfootball.wordpress.com/transfers/

I notice that a lot of teams are primarily signing Finnish players. Is that normal at this stage. Also I am slightly confused – I am English/Finnish mongrel and typically none of my Finnish relatives have any interest in football – so none of them can ever answer my queries about Finnish football. Why are clubs signing players at this point? What are the players going to do between now and next season?

By: Nikos

Nikos — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:37:48 +0000

I am a Greek from Levadia.I hope Toni Lehtinen is good because we really need a good striker right now…

By: Egan

Egan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:27:57 +0000

I’ll do something in the next week, finnbrit, there’s a lot to cover.

By: finnbrit

finnbrit — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:02:30 +0000

any possibility update on the transfers so far in vliiga ?

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:26:27 +0000

The Italian players play in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (used to be Serie C2) I think. After speaking to the Bangor players involved it was obvious to them that the Italians were very good.

By: Egan

Egan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:31:32 +0000

This competition confuses the hell out of me, given the disparity in selection criteria. Do you know what kind of team Italy put out? Maybe Finland are playing their Under 21s against semi-pros to toughen them up a bit?

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:40:38 +0000

Thanks, no wonder they won!!

By: Egan

Egan — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:35:40 +0000

They’re all full-time, and some of them even play abroad:

Anssi Jaakkola, AC Siena
Jukka Raitala, HJK > 46’ Petri Viljanen, FC Haka
Ari Nyman, FC Thun
Jonas Portin, FF Jaro
Ville Jalasto, FC Honka
Juha Hakola, FC Flora > 57’ Erfan Zeneli, HJK
Tim Sparv, Halmstads BK (k)
Mehmet Hetemaj, Panionios NFC > 57’ Ilari Äijälä, MyPa
Tomi Petrescu, Tampere United > 46’ Jussi Vasara, FC Honka
Perparim Hetemaj, AEK Ateena > 68’ Jarno Parikka, HJK
Timo Furuholm, FC Inter

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:17:47 +0000

Hello, just a small query.

Last Wednesday (19th November) Wales Under 23s lost 1-0 to Finland under 23s in a tournament.

The Welsh team were made from semi-professional players, at which level do the Finnish team’s players play at?