Johan ″Jonne″ Aksel Alho (9 February 1907 – 14 September 1982) was a Finnish footballer and a football referee.

Football

Player career

Alho started his career in the Helsinki working-class side Töölön Vesa, winning the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation's (TUL) Championship in 1930. At the time, the football in Finland was split in two due to the 1918 Finnish Civil War. In 1931, Alho was a member of the TUL football team participating the Workers' Summer Olympiad in Vienna. In the fall of 1931, three Vesa players, Alho, Valdemar Virtanen and

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, switched to the bourgeois HJK Helsinki. Between 1931 and 1936, Alho played six seasons for HJK in the Finnish top tier Mestaruussarja.

As a referee

After his playing career, Alho was a

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international referee in 1941–1956 and 1958–1961. He officiated 11 internationals including the first round match between

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and Norway at the

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. In 1959, Alho refereed Finnish Cup final.

Other sports

Alho also played

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for Töölön Vesa, winning the TUL Championship in 1929. As a bandy referee, he officiated the match between Norway and

at the

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where bandy was held as a

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References

1907 births 1982 deaths Footballers from Helsinki Association football defenders Finnish footballers Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players Mestaruussarja players Finnish football referees Olympic football referees Finnish bandy players 20th-century Finnish people {{Finland-footy-defender-stub