2011 was a season to remember for HJK. Not only did ‘Klubi' won their third consecutive title
and the Finnish Cup (overall their 24th league championship and 11th cup victory), but they did
this in a swashbuckling fashion. The Helsinki team finished the season with a 24-point lead to
second-place Inter and scored a whopping 86 goals in 33 matches while conceding only 23.
The Veikkausliiga finished this weekend as Mason Trafford, Josh Wicks, and IFK Mariehamn capped off
a successful season by tying Honka while Etchu Tabe and relegated RoPS went down to VPS.
Mason Trafford and Josh Wicks look to help IFK Mariehamn notch a win against Honka while Etchu Tabe
and relegated RoPS take on VPS in the final round of the Veikkausliiga season.
By Alan Duffy
The Finnish Third Division doesn't sound like the most exciting league in the world, however,
that's until you meet Brazil's Marcello Matrone, who plies his trade with HIK.
You see, Matrone is determined to add a bit of showbiz glamour to the Finnish game, something he
did in rather under-rehearsed fashion when he scored against Honka recently, as you will see from
the video below.
Did you miss NFN's three-part Veikkausliiga preview? Don't worry, you can find it here, just
click on the linka. Part I -Part II - Part III.
Nordic Football News has once again brought you the most definitive Veikkausliiga preview
concievable. Now for the final part, our standings prediction.
The 2011 Veikkausliiga season kicks-off in two months so let's not waste any time trying to make
up witty introductions to the ever so fascinating world of Veikkausliiga transfer tittle-tattle and
instead, mimicking the transfer market behaviour of most Finnish top tier teams, the Merry-go-round
is just going to plunge in among the transfers news and take any piece it can get its hands on.
The 2011 Veikkausliiga season kicks-off in two months so let's not waste any time trying to make
up witty introductions to the ever so fascinating world of Veikkausliiga transfer tittle-tattle and
instead, mimicking the transfer market behaviour of most Finnish top tier teams, the Merry-go-round
is just going to plunge in among the transfers news and take any piece it can get its hands on.
When you go for a Sunday stroll around the Finnish transfer circus at this time of the year,
in this bleak financial and meteorological climate, you would expect to see a sad merry-go-round
sitting stranded in the cold, transfer ponies buried under five feet of snow, emptiness echoing in
the absence of laughter, shrieks of joy and the sound of little feet of transfer rumours scampering
merrily around the ride.
