Sanna Irene Malaska (born 6 April 1983) is a
Finnish
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* 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
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football coach
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Guidance/instruction
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Transportation
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and former
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
, currently running the female youth teams at
HJK Helsinki
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (), commonly known as HJK Helsinki, or simply as HJK, is a professional football club based in Helsinki, Finland. The club competes in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. Founded in 1907, the club has spent most of its history i ...
of the
Naisten Liiga
The Kansallinen Liiga ('National League') is the premier division of women's football in Finland. It was previously called the Jalkapallon naisten SM-sarja ('Women's Football Finnish Championship Series') during 1974 to 2006 and the Naisten Lii ...
. As well as for HJK, she has played for
Sunnanå SK of
Sweden's
Damallsvenskan
The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...
,
Prainsa Zaragoza in the
Spanish
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Superleague and
Amazon Grimstad
Amazon Grimstad FK is a Professional Norwegian women's football club from Grimstad. It is named after the Amazons of Greek mythology.
It was founded in 1999 when the women's football section split from FK Jerv. The senior team currently plays ...
in
Norway
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's
Toppserien
The Toppserien is the top level of women's association football in Norway. It was founded in 1984.
History
Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in 1 ...
.
She has been a member of the
Finnish national team, taking part in the
2005 and
2009 European Championships. She last appeared in 2010.
Profile
in the Football Association of Finland's website
References
External links
*
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1983 births
Living people
Finnish women's footballers
Finland women's international footballers
Expatriate women's footballers in Norway
Expatriate women's footballers in Spain
Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (women) players
Kansallinen Liiga players
Footballers from Helsinki
Damallsvenskan players
Liga F players
Finnish expatriate women's footballers
Sunnanå SK players
Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Toppserien players
Zaragoza CFF players
Women's association football defenders
Women's association football midfielders
21st-century Finnish women
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