Tomi Jalo 1958-2009
This week ended with a sad piece of news from Turun Sanomat, saying that Tomi Jalo had died on Wednesday at the age of 50. Jalo was one of the few Finnish footballers to take part in the olympic games, being a part of the Finnish team in Moscow 1980. Jalo played two games for [...]
Veikkausliiga Round 25 preview, part 2
Sunday, October 19, 2008
TamU beat Honka 4-3 in an entertaining game that saw TamU stir up the title race once again. A few weeks ago they got a home win against Inter and now the other title candidate was treated to a defeat at their hands. FC Lahti – IFK Mariehamn A win would guarantee IFK Mariehamn a [...]
JJK win promotion to Veikkausliiga
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Jyväskylä in Central Finland is a town of about 85 000 people and until today it has held a record they should not be proud of: for a long time Jyväskylä has been the biggest town in Finland that has never had a football club in Veikkausliiga, the top flight of Finnish football. In Jyväskylä, [...]
Russia 3 Finland 0: old-school Finnish football is back!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Just last night I thought Finnish football had changed considerably as the U-21 team overturned a deficit to come out as victors against Austria, but little did I know. Tonight, Finland went down 3-0 against Russia and to make it Finnish enough, the first two goals were Finland’s own goals and Arshavin’s strike that settled [...]
U21′s to face Austria, the national team to take on Azerbaijan and Russia
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Finland’s U21 team has a chance of achieving what would be the best achievement in Finnish football so far as they play Austria twice. The winner of the tie will qualify for the U21 European Championships to be held in Sweden next year. Markku Kanerva is unlikely to change his team compared to the group [...]
Inter hold on to their advantage
Monday, October 6, 2008
FC Inter – Honka 0-0 HJK – TPS 1-0 FC Lahti – Haka 1-0 KuPS – MyPa 1-4 VPS – Jaro 2-1 TamU – IFK Mariehamn 1-0 Highlights here, just click the “Veikkausliiga” link below the video. Inter and Honka couldn’t spell out a difference between themselves in the long-awaited game between the two top [...]
Yle vs. Urheilukanava
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Yle started their Veikkausliiga broadcasts today as FF Jaro played FC Lahti. The system in Finland is quite interesting: Urheilukanava broadcast the games from April to September, and Yle are only interested when the title is about to be won. The move from Urheilukanava to Yle may raise the number of people watching, as Urheilukanava [...]
Kuusela packs his bags, Allen to fill in
Monday, September 15, 2008
Following an utterly disappointing season, TPS have sacked head coach Martti Kuusela. Personally, I am shocked with the announcement. Letting your head coach go is not unusual when you don’t get the right result, but there are very few cases in the history of TPS when a head coach has been sacked while the season [...]
Veikkausliiga Round 18 preview, part 1
Saturday, August 23, 2008
FC Lahti and TamU kicked off the 18th round on Friday and the matched ended in a 2-2 draw. Dramatically, TamU were up by one until the 90th minute. Then Jari Litmanen scored in stoppage time and two minutes later Jonne Kemppinen gave the hosts the lead. Nobody expected TamU to get a result anymore, [...]
U21: Finland 1 Sweden 1
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The respective U21 sides of Finland and Sweden had nothing between them as their friendly match in Turku drew to a close, and the result – one goal for each – reflected the proceedings quite well. The hosts started the game well, with Tomi Petrescu, Perparim Hetemaj, Berat Sadik and Tim Sparv all causing trouble [...]
Inter sail on under lucky stars
Monday, August 18, 2008
KuPS – HJK 3-2 VPS – FC KooTeePee 1-1 MyPa – RoPS 1-0 FC Honka – TPS 2-2 TamU – FC Haka 1-1 FC Inter – FC Lahti 1-0 IFK Mariehamn – FF Jaro CANCELLED Inter have signed a great deal with the football gods. They won FC Lahti in front of over 8000 people [...]
The Return of the King
Friday, August 8, 2008
FC Lahti have announced that the legendary #10, Jari Litmanen, is a new addition to their squad. He has been training with the team for a few weeks now and it was quite natural that he decided to bring this season to its conclusion playing for Lahti. “He has been training very well with us, [...]
European draws
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Friday’s UEFA Cup and Champions League draws could have shown the participating Finnish clubs a bit more mercy. TamU’s dreams of making it to the Champions League group stage are pretty much ruled out. They need a perfect performance and some help from the heavens above if they want to cancel out Artmedia’s 3-1 aggregate [...]
Veikkausliiga Round 14 round-up
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
FF Jaro – Tampere United 1-4 RoPS – FC Inter 0-0 HJK – IFK Mariehamn 4-0 MyPa – FC Honka 0-2 FC Haka – VPS 1-0 FC Lahti – FC KooTeePee 1-0 TPS – KuPS 3-3 Click on the game for highlights. TPS-KuPS should appear later. Inter still did not lose, but their form is [...]
Honka sell Maanoja
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Gone is their best defender/defensive midfielder, and their goalkeeper will follow. Honka have announced that Tomi Maanoja will hop on the ferry and move to Stockholm’s AIK. Thursday’s UEFA Cup game against IA Akranes in Iceland will be “Psyko’s” farewell. The transfer fee has not been made public, but rumours are circulating that Honka will [...]
Veikkausliiga Round 14 Preview
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Once again, the games start on Saturday and the last one will be played on Wednesday – so if my predictions go wrong as far as Wednesday’s TPS-KuPS is concerned, I’ll blame it on having to write the preview so early. FF Jaro – Tampere United This is Saturday’s only game. TamU are probably tired [...]
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