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We knew it would be a tough competition, and the starting match against France was the toughest possible introduction to Le Tournoi. 

Mark H, Rich, Keke & Mark W discuss the three games for the Finland Women's team, and how this prepares them for upcoming World Cup qualifiers and Euro 2022 in the UK.

Blog: show notes and links https://finnishfootballshow.com/2022/02/24/le-tournoi-2022-helmarit-passion-and-fight/

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Le Tournoi, Caen & Le Havre, 22–26.2.2022

The 2022 Tournoi de France will be the third edition of the tournament, it is an invitational women's football tournament held annually in France and this year takes place from 16th to 22nd February. Joining Finland and hosts France this year are Brazil and the Netherlands.

Rich and Keke look forward to the action, discuss the form of the Helmarit and consider the threat of their opponents! 😨

Blog: show notes and links https://finnishfootballshow.com/2022/02/15/helmarit-le-tournoi-2022/ 

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After a dark, very cold winter break, the Finnish football scene burst into life this past week, as we saw competitive action in the Liigacup.

Keke, Rich & Mark W get together to discuss this first round of results, as well as the draw for the revamped Suomen Cup and the imminent release of the Veikkausliiga fixtures.

They also reflect on closed-season transfers and look back at the Futsal Euros in Amsterdam. That should keep us all busy for a while...

Blog: https://finnishfootballshow.com/2022/02/05/liigacup-veikkausliiga-suomen-cup-transfers-futsal/

 

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Keke, Mark H and Mark W are joined by another Huuhkajat star, Rasmus Schüller, who has over 50 Finland caps to his name. A serial winner, who has five Veikkausliiga titles, including three League & Cup doubles 🙌🏼  Rasmus is tough tackling, smooth passing, no nonsense, central midfielder currently with Djurgårdens IF in Stockholm.

Rade tells us how it felt to start in the Veikkausliiga, for Honka at the age of 18,  the challenge of making the step-up to HJK Helsinki, his MLS adventure in Minnesota. He also shares some VERY interesting insights into the ill-fated Hans Backe era of the Finland national team and why Markku Kanerva has enjoyed such success in the Nations League and Euro 2020.

Blog: show notes and links https://finnishfootballshow.com/2022/01/13/in-conversation-with-rasmus-schuller/

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For our final show of 2021, we decided to broadcast it as a Facebook Live video and publish the results as a series of podcasts over the Christmas holiday. This was recorded on Monday 20.12.2021.

In this episode, the FFS team look back at some of the standout Finnish players in 2022. We reminisce about our trip to Helsinki to watch Finland vs France (the first time all four FFS-ers were all together). Rich introduces a new range of FFS mugs, while Mark W surprises Keke with some JJK merch.

Show Notes and links https://finnishfootballshow.com/2021/12/26/ffs-xmas-live-show/

FFS Finnish Player of the Year

• Carljohan Eriksen
• Linda Sällström
• Teemu Pukki
• Lukáš Hrádecký
• Joel Pohjanpalo
• Daniel O'Shaughnessy
• Rasmus Schüller

FFS Interviewees in 2021

• Sauli Väisänen
• Paula Myllyoja
• Emma Koivisto
• Niila Arajuuri
• Joni Kauko
• Robert Taylor
• Tinni Korpela

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For our final show of 2021, we decided to broadcast it as a Facebook Live video and publish the results as a series of podcasts over the Christmas holiday. This was recorded on Monday 20.12.2021.

In this episode, we are also joined by Mark H, fresh from putting the kids to bed! We are also joined by FFS fan Erno, so we talk with both of them about Tim Sparv retiring. And we ask Erno's opinion on the future of the Huuhkajat without him, Paulus Arajuuri and Joona Toivio in the squad.

We talk about the confirmed fixtures for the 2022-23 Nations League, which sees Finland play four games in 12 days in early-June. This is also the time for the launch our new, 2022 range of FFS merch at https://www.teepublic.com/user/finnish-football-show

Apparel, phone cases, tote bags and pin badges, with a new design for 2022 – so you can support the Finnish Football Show AND support your team.

 

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For our final show of 2021, we decided to broadcast it as a Facebook Live video and publish the results as a series of podcasts over the Christmas holiday. This was recorded on Monday 20.12.2021.

The FFS team were grateful to Boris Wistuba-Marino for jumping into our Facebook Live show right at the beginning. Boris is a youth coach at Espoon Palloseura, Kitman at HJK Helsinki and the 'funny sidekick' on the Pallo ja Pullo podcast.

Boris talked to us about the recent announcement that Time Sparv will retire from playing football 😥 and how he came to be a youth coach in Finland.

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Having recovered from our recent city break in Helsinki to watch the Huuhkajat, the FFS team get together (virtually, again) to discuss today's draw from the 2022/23 Nations League competition.

We also break down the, recently announced, changes to the Suomen Cup for 2022. As well as welcoming back the prodigal Cup, as the closed-season Liigacup makes a welcome return. We look at recent news and look forward to our Facebook Live show on Monday 20th December.

Xmas 2022 Live Show Facebook Event on 20.12.2021 https://fb.me/e/1w92EVyoQ

 

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Playing away against the old enemy is never easy, but when your closest rival is also ranked number 2 in the world, you know you're in for a battle. That is what Finland faced but they also made sure they went down fighting against Sweden; standing toe-to-toe and attempting to play their own game.

The other result in the group, Ireland 1-1 Slovakia, leaves the standings wide open at the halfway stage. Mark W and Keke discuss the action after the final whistle.

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While the FFS team were marching to the France vs Finland game this week, Mark W whipped out his recorder to capture some of the atmosphere. We thought you might like to hear it.

Read Mark H's match report of Finland 0-2 France
https://finnishfootballshow.com/2021/11/17/match-report-finland-0-2-france/

 

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