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Helsinki, Finland
Joined April 2016
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Keskinen ✈️Aberdeen Sarr ✈️Kolding Haarala ✈️Djurgården? Stavitski ✈️Mjällby? Lots of attacking transfers out of the league this summer, so where to find replacements? Here's a 🧵on what Ykkösliiga has to offer AKA there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see:
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Haven't been posting much recently for a couple of reasons: 1) I worked a really interesting project in 2025 at IF Gnistan that spanned a lot of things, which also meant that I didn't want to do too much sharing. This project has now ended, so I'll have more freedom to post.
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2) Hate to complain about platforms, but just generally, haven't really used this app for the last year so I'll be posting elsewhere (check my bio for the link, I'd encourage you to sign up if you haven't).
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Olen jutellut useiden seurojen kanssa tästä samasta aiheesta viimeisen muutaman kuukauden aikana: kaikki tarvitsevat lisää paukkuja rekrytointiin, mutta mikään seura ei halua priorisoida sitä.
Kävin keskustelemassa Vesa Vasaran kanssa Interin olemattomasta skouttausosastosta, Serge Atakayista, hankintatarpeista ja muusta. #veikkausliiga ts.fi/urheilu/6501441
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Yegbe myös viimeisimmässä Ghanan maajoukkueessa.
Terry Yegbe on FD:n vuoden vuoden joukkueessa, eli valittu useimmiten pelipaikallaan FD:n kierroksen joukkueeseen #Veikkausliiga
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Talvitie is great, obviously, but I increasingly wonder about his shot locations.
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Miksiköhän tässä jutussa ei käydä läpi analyysin löydöksiä ollenkaan? Jutun lopussa linkki dokkariin, mutta se on 95 sivua pitkä, olisi ehkä ihan hyvä summeerata se jollain tavalla.
📣Miesten kansainvälisen jalkapallon analyysi 2024 julkaistu Analyysi tarkastelee: 🔹Suomen vahvuuksia ja kehityskohteita muihin eurooppalaisiin joukkueisiin verrattuna 🔹Suomen kehitystrendejä viimeisen kuuden vuoden aikana palloliitto.fi/ajankohtaista…
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Löydökset muuten herättävät jonkun verran ajatuksia, rustaan ne tähän ketjuun kun ehdin.
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Funny how Google has just completely forgot about EIF
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500k€ tv-/mainosrahan lisäksi tulee siis 300k€. Osahan on jo tuon puoli milliä upottanut pelaajiin ja keventänyt toimistoa. Kylmää kyytiä voi tulla putoamisen jälkeen. Eikö tuosta 500k€ voisi korvamerkitä osan esim. junnutoimintaan? #Veikkausliiga
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Replying to @HarriLaine
Voisi, ja pitäisi. Huimaa miettiä, että liigapaikan "arvo" on nykyisin vajaa miljoona, kun 10 vuotta sitten se oli käytännössä nolla. #veikkausliiga'ssa ei voi enää valittaa niukkuutta. Ei ole syytä, miksei organisaatio olisi kunnossa tai satsattaisi junnuihin/olosuhteisiin.
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Hytönen, Arifi, Jukkola poised to make their Finland U21 debuts as 22 year-olds
⚽ #Pikkuhuuhkajat nimetty syksyn EM-karsintaotteluihin Armeniaa ja Romaniaa vastaan! 🦉 Kisapaikkaa ensi vuoden alle 21-vuotiaiden EM-kisoihin jahdataan Armenia-vierasottelussa Jerevanissa perjantaina 6.9. ja Romania-kotiottelussa Tampereella tiistaina 10.9. 👉 Liput myynnissä Tampereen otteluun! palloliitto.fi/liput/pikkuhu… palloliitto.fi/ajankohtaista…
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Naamo has played inside a lot this season in different phases but this is quite clearly him playing RCB, ie not occasionally inverting.
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Pontus Lindberg ('07) is one to watch for KäPa in this match. First start of the season in the league. CB whose carrying attribute is his ability on the ball. Will be interesting to see how it translates to adult football - expect some silly turnovers - but ceiling is high.
Miehistö Turkuun⚔️ Podelle kauden debyyttiottelu🔥 Kuningas ja Salmi penkillä✅ #ykkösliiga #käpylänpallo @ykkosliiga
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According to transfermarkt, 10 players have gotten minutes at RB or RWB for Finland since the start of 2022. How many can you name? (One is probably a third cb erroneously listed as RB in a 4 but that’s part of the challenge)
Markku Kanerva: ”Adam Ståhl kiinnostaa ja prosessi on käynnissä" Huuhkajien päävalmentaja Kanerva avaa ruotsalaiseen Djurgårdenin puolustaja Adam Ståhliin liittyvää uutisointia⤵️ palloliitto.fi/ajankohtaista… #huuhkajat
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Good to see the’ve found a long term successor to Alho/Soiri is my point!
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Goalkeeper evaluation is tricky, but I think Maukonen has looked excellent at YNT level, especially reflex saves and stuff requiring athleticism. Duarte deserves praise for a) putting him in goal and b) sticking with him after the 5-5, where he would have been an easy scapegoat.
Osku Maukosen tuplatorjunta pitää lukemat entisellään 👐 65' FC Lahti-EIF 2–0 📺 ruutu.fi/stream/4557182 #Veikkausliiga #LAHEIF
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I like Dario Naamo a lot, and have spent a lot of time watching him, and I'm convinced that people misprofile him because he 'feels' like your prototypical attacking ex-winger fullback. He's less about this:
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There are a couple of additional positives that would come from a system like this. It would, for example, also help the bigger teams blood coaches - like SJK did with Grieve, and HJK did with Koskela.
Replying to @Minor_LS
To ensure the top player developers get their players playing at the right level, maybe allow teams to purchase a guaranteed slot in the second tier? In a way, it's what they're doing anyway, with a load of negative externalities. The only downside for this I can think of is...
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It would also, sort of, serve as a parachute for the top academies. So when Honka went bankrupt this fall, they could have kept at least some of their young players, let them play in Ykkösliiga, and retain some of the potential value.
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There's a silly thing happening in Finnish football right now, where teams are stuck in an arms race to get their second teams promoted to a high enough level (essentially Ykkösliiga at this point) to attract the best young players. Have a 🧵:
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This creates these situations where organisations end up loading up their second teams with older players...
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Slight misrepresentation of office work here, there’s also a bit of email.
Lee Erwinin toimisto sijaitsee boksissa, jossa mies on tehnyt tuhoisaa jälkeä. Eipä ihme, että myös futiksen ulkopuolella toimistotyö kiinnostaa. 🤩 Lue juttu👇 🔗 hjk.fi/artikkelit/miehet/kum… #HJK #Veikkausliiga | Bolt.Works
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Sorry for spreading poorly labeled ads on your timelines.
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Lots of reasons to back your coach at this point, but there was a mention of 'data' in this interview, so I sort of take that as an invitation. Note that we don't have access to A) their KPIs or B) their physical data, both of which might contain green shoots, BUT...
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...up until today, what would you guess Sibila's xG rate (xG For / (xG For + xG Against)) was in the league, versus Korkeakunnas' in 2024?
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Lots of talk recently about how the #Veikkausliiga is different from last year, and I wonder just how much that one crazy game early in the season affected the public perception
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