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Heini Mäkelä
Heini Mäkelä (née Tiilikainen), (born 19 December 1987) is a Finnish footballer who plays as a midfielder. Mäkelä plays for Kuopio MimmiFutis in Kuopio and the Finnish national team as a defender. International career Mäkelä was a member of the Finland team that reached the semi-final of the 2005 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship and the semi-finals of the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship. Heini Mäkelä made her senior for Finland against Scotland on 27 August 2008. Heini Mäkelä was selected to part of the Finnish team at the 2009 European Championships. Mäkelä had to withdraw due to injury and was replaced by Maiju Hirvonen. Mäkelä scored her first goal for the national team against Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ... in a World Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ã…land United
Åland United is a Finnish women's football club based in Lemland, Åland. They compete in the Kansallinen Liiga, the premier women's football league in Finland. In 2004 Åland's clubs Lemlands IF and IF Finströms Kamraterna decided to strengthen the women's football in the region. Their combined team operated under Lemlands IF using name Åland United. United managed promotion to the top national women's league, the Naisten Liiga, in 2005. In 2008 other Ålandic clubs Sunds IF, IFK Mariehamn and Saltviks IF joined in the cooperation and Åland United became an independent, pure women's football club. In 2009 Åland United won the championship and played in the 2010–11 UEFA Women's Champions League. They started in the round of 32 and lost both legs to reigning champion Turbine Potsdam. In subsequent seasons Åland United has been 3rd (2010), 4th (2011), 2nd (2012) and champions (2013) Titles * Finnish League champions: 2009, 2013 * Finnish Women's Cup The Finnish Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy Women's National Football Team
The Italy women's national football team () has represented Italy in international women's football since their inception in 1968. The team is controlled by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), the governing body for football in Italy. Formed in 1968, Italy took part in various unofficial international tournaments, hosting the first unofficial European Competition in 1969 and World Cup in 1970. Italy qualified for both the first World Cup in 1991, where they reached the quarter-finals, and the first European Championship. While Italy were runners-up in the European Championship in 1993 and 1997, they are yet to replicate similar success at the World Cup. In 2019, after a 20-year drought, Italy qualified for the World Cup where they equaled their previous best performance, reaching the quarter-finals. History 1968–1984: Early history and unofficial tournaments The women's national team played its first game on 23 February 1968, in Viareggio against Czechoslovakia. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland Women's International Footballers
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are Finns, ethnic Finns. Finnish language, Finnish, alongside Swedish language, Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental climate, humid continental in the south to the boreal climate, boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded List of lakes of Finland, lakes. Finland was first inh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Women's Footballers
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. It may also refer to: *Finnish language * Suomi (surname) * Suomi, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Suomi College, in Hancock, Michigan, now referred to as Finlandia University * Suomi Island, Western ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1987 Births
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World Cup
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept is the FIFA World Cup for association football, which is widely known simply as "the World Cup." However, there are a number of notable popular team sports competitions labeled "world cups", such as the ICC Cricket World Cup, Rugby World Cup, Rugby League World Cup, and the Hockey World Cup. A world cup is generally, though not always, considered the premier competition in its sport, with the victor attaining the highest honour in that sport and able to lay claim to the title of their sport's best. However, in some sports the Olympic title carries at least as much prestige, while other sports such as diving and artistic gymnastics differentiate between their premier competitions, such as World Championships and Olympic Games, and their "Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maiju Hirvonen
Maiju Hirvonen (born 25 December 1990) is a retired Finnish footballer. Lindstrom spend most of her career at HJK. Since retiring from professional football she is the head coach of Tikkurilan Palloseura Tikkurilan Palloseura (abbreviated TiPS) is a football club from Tikkurila in Vantaa, Finland. The club was established in 1958 and its main catchment areas comprise Tikkurila and Hakunila in Itä-Vantaa (East Vantaa). The women's team competes .... International career Maiju Hirvonen was also part of the Finnish team at the 2009 European Championships. Maiju Hirvonen was a late replacement in the squad for Heini Mäkelä who injured her calf. References 1990 births Living people Kansallinen Liiga players People from Helsinki PK-35 (women) players Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (women) players Finnish women's footballers Finland women's international footballers Women's association football defenders {{Finland-women-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuopio Football Stadium
Kuopio Football Stadium ( fi, Kuopion keskuskenttä), also known as Väre Areena (formerly ''Savon Sanomat Areena'', ''Magnum Areena'') is a multi-use stadium in Kuopio, Finland. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of KuPS and Pallokissat Pallokissat is a women's association football club from Kuopio, Finland, playing in the Finnish women's premier division Naisten Liiga The Kansallinen Liiga ('National League') is the premier division of women's football in Finland. It was p ... . The stadium holds 5,000 and was built in 2005. Gallery File:KuPS vs JIPPO soccer draw.jpg, KuPS Kuopio vs. JIPPO Joensuu File:Magnum Areena Kuopio 2007.jpg, KuPS Kuopio vs. JIPPO Joensuu References External links * Football venues in Finland Football Stadium Kuopion Palloseura Buildings and structures in North Savo Sports venues completed in 1939 {{Finland-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Women's Euro 2009
The 2009 UEFA Women's Championship, or just Women's Euro 2009, was played in Finland between 23 August and 10 September 2009. The host was appointed on 11 July 2006, in a UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Berlin and the Finnish proposal won over the Dutch proposal. The UEFA Women's Championship is a regular tournament involving European national teams from countries affiliated to UEFA, the European governing body, who have qualified for the competition. The competition aims to determine which national women's team is the best in Europe. The 2009 tournament was won by Germany for a seventh time in ten events. They beat England, appearing in their first final since 1984, 6–2 in the final. The Germans also boasted the tournament's leading goalscorer in Inka Grings. Format Twelve teams competed in the competition, an increase of 4 teams from 8 teams that played in previous tournaments. After a preliminary round, 30 teams competed in a qualifying group stage. Those teams were divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland Women's National Football Team
The Scotland women's national football team represents Scotland in international women's football competitions. Since 1998, the team has been governed by the Scottish Football Association (SFA). Scotland qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time in 2019, and qualified for their first UEFA Women's Championship in 2017. As of July 2019, the team was 22nd in the FIFA Women's World Rankings. Although most national football teams represent a sovereign state, as a member of the United Kingdom's Home Nations, Scotland is permitted by FIFA statutes to maintain its own national side that competes in all major tournaments, with the exception of the Women's Olympic Football Tournament. History Church documents recorded women playing football in Carstairs, Lanarkshire, in 1628. Scotland first played a women's international match in May 1881. Women's football struggled for recognition during this early period and was banned by the football authorities in 1921. Club sides wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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