Antero Simo Tapani Kivelä (born 26 December 1955) is a retired Finnish

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

goaltender. After his playing career, Kivelä coached several ice hockey,

rinkball Rinkball is a winter team sport played on ice with ice skates and is most popular in Finland, where it is known as ''kaukalopallo''. This ball sport originated in Sweden in the 1960s and from there landed in Finland in the 1970s. The objective ...

and

ringette Ringette is a contact sport, non-contact winter team sport played on ice hockey rinks using Ice skates#Ice hockey skates, ice hockey skates, straight sticks with drag-tips, and a #Equipment, blue, rubber, pneumatic ring designed for use on ice ...

teams in Finland. Kivelä is also member of the

city council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counc ...

Pori ) , website www.pori.fi Pori (; sv, Björneborg ) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River, west of Tampere, north of Turku and north-w ...

for the Left Alliance. Kivelä played his entire career for

Ässät Pori Ässät or Ässä may refer to: * HC Ässät Pori Oy, Finnish sports club **Porin Ässät (men's ice hockey) **Porin Ässät (women's ice hockey) **Porin Ässät (men's football) ** PATA (esports) *, Finnish band from Oulu *S Group, Finnish Consum ...

. He made 58 appearances in the Finland national team and took part at the

1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected ...

in Lake Placid.Sports-Reference.com
/ref> Kivelä is also the chairman of women's soccer club

NiceFutis NiceFutis is a women's association football club from Pori, Finland. It was established in 1989 as the women's section of PPT Pori was disbanded. NiceFutis has played in the Finnish women's premier division Kansallainen Liiga since 2008. The ...

Coaching career

After his playing career in ice hockey, Kivelä went on to coach in various sports.

Rinkball

Kivelä coached in

Ice hockey

Kivelä coached , Närpes Kraft, ,

Jokipojat Joensunn Kiekko-Pojat is a Finnish semi-professional ice hockey team that plays in the Mestis. The full name of the club is ''Joensuun Kiekko ry''. It has spent three seasons in the top flight of Finnish hockey, season 1971–72 in SM-sarja and ...

, and

Porin Ässät Porin may refer to: * Porin (protein), a transmembrane protein * ''Porin'' (opera), a Croatian grand opera, first performed in 1897 * Porin (music award) Porin is a Croatian music award founded by Croatian Phonographic Association, Croatian Mus ...

(league A and B) in ice hockey.

Ringette

Kivelä coached ringette from 1989-2015. He was a head coach in the Finnish national ringette league, , for the ringette club for more than ten seasons.Luvian Kiekko -82 homepage
(in Finnish)

Sources

International Hockey Database

References

1955 births Living people Sportspeople from Pori Ässät players Finnish ice hockey goaltenders Ice hockey players at the 1980 Winter Olympics Left Alliance (Finland) politicians Olympic ice hockey players of Finland Ringette coaches Ringette {{Finland-icehockey-goaltender-stub