AT THE end of October 2018, HJK were crowned Finnish champions for the sixth time in the last eight years and the 29thtime in their history. Football has to compete with other national pastimes in Finland, such as Pesäpallo, which is often referred to as “Finnish Baseball”, a fast-moving bat and ball game that was […]
IT’S GOOD NEWS that the Nordic football associations are considering making a joint-bid for either Euro 2024 or 2028. The region has been under-used by UEFA and FIFA, hosting one European Championship in 1992, one World Cup in 1958 (neutral Sweden after WW2) and three European Cup-Winners Cups (Goteborg, Copenhagen and Stockholm). The plan is […]
NORDIC FOOTBALL would be lost without its three letter acronyms. Teams are frequently known by their TLAs rather than their full title, and it is just as well, because some club names require you to take a slug of oxygen when you start talking football. This certainly applies to Finland, where the latest champions Seinäjoen […]
