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Michael S Collins wrote:I missed Lahti getting an equaliser vs Club Brugge, 2-2.

Jari Litmanen still dominating the game. Oh how much he would love to get through this round and face AFC Ajax in the play-off round.

The best season preview written in English can be found here:
http://www.nordicfootball.info/category ... 9-preview/

Last year I started a topic on the 2008 season, but due to several reasons I was unable to post updates on a regular basis. Here I am once again, and this time I’ll try to keep you better up-to-date. As usual: feel free to ask me anything about the Finnish top-flight or any other aspects of Finnish ...

Hm, not a very good start for Tampere United. Hope they will be better in the next games. Round #7 22.05. MyPa - FC Lahti 2-0 FF Jaro - FC Haka 0-4 RoPS - TPS 1-0 FC Inter - VPS 2-0 TamU - FC KooTeePee 4-2 IFK Mariehamn - KuPS 1-1 FC Honka - HJK 1-0 TamU finally got their first victory of the seaso...

biagio wrote:did you ever look at inter rooster?

Besides Materazzi there are: Francesco Toldo, Paolo Orlandoni and Mario Balotelli. Now which one of these would have deserved a place in the national team?

Tomorrow it's HJK against the reigning champions TamU, who have started the season withouth victories. Well, TamU didn't stand a chance and HJK finished with a comfortable 5-1 -victory. Best performances were given by Polish hat-trick hero Tomasz Sajdak and the Sierraleonean Medo who scored possibl...

Veikkausliiga (Finland): 1. Helsinki (HJK) 570 000 2. Espoo (FC Honka) 240 000 3. Tampere (TamU) 208 000 4. Turku (FC Inter, TPS) 175 000 5. Lahti (FC Lahti) 100 000 6. Kuopio (KuPS) 91 000 7. Rovaniemi (RoPS) 59 000 8. Vaasa (VPS) 58 000 9. Kotka (FC KooTeePee) 55 000 10. Valkeakoski (FC Haka) 20 ...

Round #6 18.05. FC KooTeePee - FC Inter 0-2 VPS - KuPS 2-0 RoPS - IFK Mariehamn 3-1 TPS - FF Jaro 4-0 FC Haka - MyPa 0-3 FC Lahti - FC Honka 1-0 19.05. HJK - TamU tomorrow No real surprises today. FC Inter kept their place on the top by beating the bottom team KooTeePee 2-0. Both goals were scored ...

Round #5 15.05. FC Honka - FC Haka 7-0 IFK Mariehamn - VPS 0-2 FF Jaro - RoPS 1-1 KuPS - FC KooTeePee 2-0 FC Inter - HJK 1-1 TamU - FC Lahti 0-2 MyPa - TPS 1-0 A full round was played today and some interesting results. FC Honka demolished FC Haka in a match I was witnessing myself. The result came...

Thank you and well guessed. Actually literally it just means "Ball Club" (ball = "pallo", football = "jalkapallo"). Most of these clubs practise several ball sports and not only football, so the "universal" name is more suitable.

But now Hodgson has gone will Finland be the same? The new lad on the bench is Stuart Baxter, so it's the second Englishman in row coaching our NT towards the first big tournament. The first friendly matches have already shown that not much will change from the "Hodgson era". The unbreaka...

The fan scene in Finland is relatively small but active nevertheless. Here's a youtube-link just to give you an idea of the atmosphere in Finland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBCifQOsBE8

I didn't notice a topic for the Finnish premier division, so I took the risk and opened one. Feel free to ask me any questions about the Finnish top-flight if you're interested. Here are the 14 teams competing in Veikkausliiga this year (home town in parenthesis): http://www.veikkausliiga.com/images...