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Escape To Suomi: March 2015
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News, stories and highlights of football in Finland. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Tulos: Adieu, Adu and other things you may have missed. The latest update on what's been going on in Finnish football - it's been a busy fortnight or so. The big transfer news was a rather large surprise - former United States international Freddy Adu signed for KuPS! Image via KuPS.fi. Malmi and Lahti players join together. I did an interview with Tero Koskela. About the innovative management behind his club FC Midtjylland....
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Escape To Suomi: Guardian Football Weekly - Sami Hyypiä's wife
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News, stories and highlights of football in Finland. Tuesday, January 15, 2013. Guardian Football Weekly - Sami Hyypiä's wife. Frequent listeners to the Guardian's Football Weekly podcast may well tune in as much for the conversation about random everyday stuff as much as the latest football news. Anyway, to clear things up, I don't think Mrs Hyypiä (aka model Susanna Rissanen) could ever be described as heavy-set, and here is the photographic evidence. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Before World Cu...
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Escape To Suomi: Kuningas Litmanen
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News, stories and highlights of football in Finland. Just to let you know, this isn't strictly a review, more just an accompaniment if you're watching the DVD). The film opens in Amsterdam to the singing of crowds, the backdrops of the Amsterdam Arena, of the Nou Camp, and the famous This Is Anfield sign. Dutch sports journalist David Endt speaks about how Litmanen is heart, watching him is like jazz. Photos of Jari in action for MYPA, Ajax and Barcelona merge into one another. We return to Lahti in 2010...
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Escape To Suomi: ETS elsewhere
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News, stories and highlights of football in Finland. Finland At The 1912 Olympics. In Bed With Maradona, August 2012. When Saturday C omes, No vember 2012. Ataullah Guerra part of the growing Trinidad contingent in Finland. T he Home O f Caribbean Football, May 2013. Les Rosbifs in Finland. Les Rosbifs, June 2013. Why you should have heard of. Tim Väyrynen. The Inside Left, October 2013. Ones to watch in 2014 - Patrick O'Shaughnessy. The Emerald Exiles, December 2013. Bundesliga Fanatic, January 2014.
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Escape To Suomi: Interview with Finland international Tim Sparv
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News, stories and highlights of football in Finland. Monday, November 03, 2014. Interview with Finland international Tim Sparv. In the latest interview on ETS, Finland and FC Midtjylland midfielder Tim Sparv generously answered some of my questions. Make sure you follow him on Twitter. And catch up with his regular column for Pohjalainen. Tim in action for Finland v Hungary in March 2014 (Getty). You're a well-travelled man. How is Denmark different from the other places you've played in? That's possible...
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Escape To Suomi: October 2014
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News, stories and highlights of football in Finland. Sunday, October 26, 2014. Veikkausliiga week 33 - farewell 2014. Due to a busy weekend at work, I've not got a lot of time - I'll do a full season review blog after next weekend's Cup Final. Saturday saw SJK confirm their silver medal in their debut season, while Lahti finished a very good third and VPS ended in fourth - which will put them into the Europa League, if HJK complete the double against Inter on the first. IFK Mariehamn - TPS 3-1. Thursday,...
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Escape To Suomi: November 2014
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News, stories and highlights of football in Finland. Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Interview with Nikolai Alho. In the latest in the ETS series of interviews, HJK and Finland U21 international Nikolai Alho tells me about qualifying for the Europa League group stage, his musical projects. And supporting Burnley? You can buy Niko's latest single Gimme All Dat on iTunes - click here for more info. See below for the video. Niko celebrates HJK's win over Rapid Wien (photo via Faneille. On your Instagram, you po...
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Escape To Suomi: July 2015
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News, stories and highlights of football in Finland. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Interview with RoPS manager Juha Malinen. In the latest interview for ETS, I spoke to RoPS manager Juha Malinen about his views on various aspects of Finnish football and beyond. RoPS are exceeding everyone's expectations in Veikkausliiga this year. What key changes have you made to get such good results? Are there any teams in the world who you look to for inspiration? Which is the best team you've ever seen? Teams who, on th...
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Escape To Suomi: December 2014
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News, stories and highlights of football in Finland. Tuesday, December 30, 2014. ETS 2015 - who to support? In 2015, the ETS family will be rolling into Finland by car for a few weeks in midsummer. I've previously mentioned the trip here. The VIP section at Union Plaani - I've been promised it for a match. Will we both be allowed into a game? Or is it because Woody is black? I'm not after anything from this initiative, purely a chance to find out a little more about Finland, meet some new friends and hop...
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Escape To Suomi: February 2015
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News, stories and highlights of football in Finland. Friday, February 20, 2015. Interview with KuPS defender Dani Hatakka. Yet another interview, this time with Finland U21 defender Dani Hatakka, who has recently signed for KuPS after leaving Honka. Enjoy. Dani in his new KuPS colours - photo via KuPS.fi. You were the second highest scorer at the recent Commonwealth Cup with four goals - is that something you've worked on over the summer? Hatakka from the half-way line - Vine via Oskari Karppinen. As cra...
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