Jorma Johan Sigurd Vaihela (30 September 1925 – 9 February 2006) was a Finnish international

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who played as an

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Club career

Born in

Raahe Raahe (; sv, Brahestad; ) is a town and municipality of Finland. Founded by Swedish statesman and Governor General of Finland Count Per Brahe the Younger in 1649, it is one of 10 historic wooden towns (or town centers) remaining in Finland. Exam ...

, Vaihela played club football in Finland for

TuTo TUTO Hockey (Turun Toverit) is a Finnish ice hockey team based at the Kupittaan jäähalli (capacity 2,875, inauguration in November 2006). Established in 1929, TUTO plays in Turku, Finland, and is one of two clubs in that city (the other being ...

, PoPa and RU-38, and in Sweden for

IK Oddevold IK Oddevold is a Swedish football club located in Uddevalla, the name "Oddevold" being an older form of Uddevalla. The club, formed on 3 July 1932, currently plays in Sweden's third-flight league, Division 1. They play most of their home game ...

. He started his career playing for

Turun Toverit Turun Toverit (TuTo) is a sports club based in Turku, Finland. It was established in 1929. Today it is best known of its ice hockey section TuTo Hockey. Other sections include sports like football, basketball, volleyball, wrestling and athletics. ...

in TUL league for 2 seasons where he scored 6 goals. In

Mestaruussarja Mestaruussarja (Championship series) was the top division of Finnish football from 1930 to 1989. It was replaced by Veikkausliiga in 1990. In 1930 league format was used for the first time to decide the Finnish champion. Before that from 1908 to ...

he played 31 games and scored 7 goals. Between 1949 and 1953 he also played in second tier Suomensarja where he scored 30 goals in 5 seasons.

International career

Vaihela earned 34 caps at international level between 1947 and 1954, scoring 13 goals. Vaihela also participated in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

Personal life

Vaihela's son

Seppo Seppo is a masculine given name of Finnish origin. It has two distinct origins; Seppo is a character in the Kalevala, whose name is derived from the Finnish word ''seppä'', meaning smith, and the name is also a diminutive for Sebastian in Finlan ...

played international bandy for Sweden, and worked as the chairman of

IFK Göteborg Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or simply Göteborg, is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it is the ...

from 2007 to 2012, and before that as president for the

Swedish Bandy Association The Swedish Bandy Association ( sv, Svenska Bandyförbundet) is the governing body of bandy in Sweden. It organizes the bandy leagues, Elitserien and Allsvenskan for men and Damallsvenskan for women, and the men's and women's national teams. It ...

.SVT">Sveriges television, SVT
: "Seppo Vaihela lamnar bandyforbundet", 20 February 2006 retrieved 21 July 2017

References

1925 births 2006 deaths Finnish footballers Finland international footballers Olympic footballers of Finland Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics IK Oddevold players Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Turun Toverit players Rosenlewin Urheilijat-38 players Porin Palloilijat players Association football inside forwards Finnish expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Sweden People from Raahe Sportspeople from North Ostrobothnia {{Finland-footy-forward-stub