Juho Ojanen (born 2 January 2002) is a Finnish

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who plays as a

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for

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side

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Club career

Early life

Born in

Espoo Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in the Republic of Finland. It is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordering the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi ...

, Ojanen joined the academy of Honka in 2006.

Honka

On 18 January 2018 Honka announced that it had signed a multi-year contract with his own protégé Juho Ojanen.

Greuther Fürth II

After a year in Honka´s senior squad it was announced that Ojanen was leaving the team in an international transfer. It was later announced that his new team was Greuther Fürth.

Klubi 04

On 17 May 2022 HJK reported that Ojanen had ended his contract with Greuther Fürth and would join HJK`s reserve team

Klubi 04 Klubi 04 is a Finland, Finnish football (soccer), football club based in Helsinki. It is the reserve team of Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi for whom a number of the players are also registered. History Klubi 04 was founded in 2004 when HJK bought FC ...

for the summer before joining

Harvard

On 1 August 2022 it was reported that

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would add Ojanen and seven other first-years ahead of 2022 men’s soccer season.

International career

Ojanen has competed on the Finland national teams at the U15-U21 levels and has been a member of the national team program since 2017. He has 26 caps for Finland youth national teams. He won the International Federation Cup in Latvia with the Finland U17 team in 2018 and captained the Finland U15 and U16 sides in 2017 and 2018.

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2002 births Living people Footballers from Espoo Harvard University alumni Finnish men's footballers Finland men's youth international footballers Men's association football midfielders Veikkausliiga players Regionalliga players FC Honka players SpVgg Greuther Fürth players SpVgg Greuther Fürth II players Klubi 04 players Harvard Crimson men's soccer players Finnish expatriate men's footballers Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Finnish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States {{Finland-footy-midfielder-stub