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Niko Hämäläinen
Nicholas Antero "Niko" Hämäläinen (born 5 March 1997) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Veikkausliiga club KuPS. Born and raised in the United States, he plays for the Finland national team thanks to his eligibility through his Finnish father. He represented Finland at various youth levels before making his senior debut against Estonia on 11 January 2019. Club career Queens Park Rangers On 18 September 2014, Hämäläinen signed for Queens Park Rangers from the FC Dallas Academy. Former West Ham midfielder Ian Bishop, a family friend, arranged a trial for Hämäläinen, where he was spotted by QPR. 2015–16: Dagenham & Redbridge loan On 6 August 2015, Hämäläinen signed on an emergency loan deal at Dagenham & Redbridge until 5 September 2015. Hämäläinen made his professional debut on 12 August 2015, in Dagenham & Redbridge's 1–4 loss to Charlton Athletic in the League Cup. He was named in the starting eleven and was replaced by Ash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland National Under-21 Football Team
The Finland national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Finland. The team qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, UEFA Euro U21 Championship final tournament for the first time in 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2009, under head coach Markku Kanerva. 15 years later, coached by Mika Lehkosuo, they qualified for the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2025 UEFA Euro U21 Championship tournament in Slovakia, for the second time in the nation's history, after defeating Norway in the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs, qualification play-offs. UEFA European Championship Record 2009 UEFA Euro Under-21 qualification 2023 UEFA Euro Under-21 qualification 2025 UEFA Euro Under-21 qualification Current squad The following players have been called up in the squad for the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament between 11 June and 28 June 2025 in Slovakia. *'' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation. MLS is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The league is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. The predecessor of MLS was the North American Soccer League (1968–84), North American Soccer League (NASL), which existed from 1968 until 1984. MLS was founded in 1993 as part of the United States' successful bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The 1996 Major League Soccer season, inaugural season took place in 1996 with ten teams. MLS experienced financial and operational struggles in its first few years, losing millions of dollars and folding two teams in 2002. Since then, developments such as the proliferation of soccer-specific stadiums around the league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield Wednesday F
Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is Historic counties of England, historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its southern suburbs were transferred from Derbyshire to the city council. It is the largest settlement in South Yorkshire and the third largest of Northern England. The city is in the North Midlands, in the eastern foothills of the Pennines and the valleys of the River Don, Yorkshire, River Don with its four tributaries: the River Loxley, Loxley, the Porter Brook, the River Rivelin, Rivelin and the River Sheaf, Sheaf. Sixty-one per cent of Sheffield's entire area is green space and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park and is the fifth-largest city in England. There are more than 250 parks, woodlands and gardens in the city, which is estimated to contain aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulham F
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Chelsea, with which it shares the area known as West Brompton. Over the Thames, Fulham faces Wandsworth, Putney, the London Wetland Centre in Barnes, London, Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. First recorded by name in 691, it was an extensive Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo-Saxon estate, the Fulham Palace, Manor of Fulham, and then a parish. Its domain stretched from modern-day Chiswick in the west to Chelsea, London, Chelsea in the southeast; and from Harlesden in the northwest to Kensal Green in the northeast bordered by the littoral of Counter's Creek and the Manor of Kensington. It originally included today's Hammersmith. Between 1900 and 1965, it was demarcated as the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham, before its me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West London Derby
The West London derby is the name given to a football derby played between any two of Brentford, Chelsea, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers, all of whom are situated within West London. This particular derby is less prominent than other such derbies in English football, owing to the teams frequently being in separate divisions. Chelsea did not face Fulham between 1986 and 2001, and have played Brentford only seven times since 1950. QPR did not face Brentford between 1966 and 2001, and did not play Chelsea between 1996 and 2008. The derby's most common match, Chelsea vs Fulham, has taken place 83 times. By contrast, the North London derby has been contested almost 200 times, and the Merseyside derby over 230 times. The 2011–12 season campaign was the first instance of three of the west London clubs competing in the top flight in the same season: Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers and Fulham. This happened for the second time in the 2022–23 Premier League, 2022–23 season, with Brent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Lynch
Joel John Lynch (born 3 October 1987) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for UAE Second Division League club Precision. He previously played for Brighton & Hove Albion, Nottingham Forest, Huddersfield Town and Queens Park Rangers. Born in England, he has represented the Wales national team. Club career Brighton & Hove Albion Lynch came through Brighton & Hove Albion's youth set up and was part of a history breaking youth team which saw them reach the quarter-finals of the FA Youth Cup. His reward, along with teammate Joe Gatting, was a place in the squad for the first team which saw him make his debut against Southampton on 3 January 2006. In summer 2006, Lynch signed a professional three-year contract with Brighton, a deal which was later extended. Lynch attracted the interest of several Premier League and Championship clubs during his career with Brighton, with Nottingham Forest and Portsmouth keeping a close scrutiny on the player. After starting the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Hemmings
Ashley Josiah Hemmings (born 3 March 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for club Dagenham & Redbridge. Hemmings began his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers before being released in 2012, by then having also had loan spells at Cheltenham Town, Torquay United and Plymouth Argyle. Club career Wolverhampton Wanderers Hemmings was born in Lewisham, London. He is a product of Wolverhampton Wanderers' academy, having been with the club since age nine. He signed a professional contract age 17 in February 2009 and soon went on loan for a month to gain first team experience at League One club Cheltenham Town, where he made his senior debut against Millwall. He made his Wolves debut as a substitute against Barnsley on 25 April 2009 in which the club clinched the Championship title; he also featured as a substitute against Doncaster Rovers a week later on the final day of the season. At the end of the 2009–10 season, Hemming signed a two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football League Cup
The English Football League Cup, often referred to as the League Cup and currently known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout competition in men's domestic football in England. Organised by the English Football League (EFL), it is open to any football club (association football), club within the top four levels of the English football league system (92 clubs in total) comprising the top-level Premier League, and the three divisions of the English Football League's own league competition (EFL Championship, Championship, EFL League One, League One and EFL League Two, League Two). First held in 1960–61 Football League Cup, 1960–61 as the Football League Cup, it is one of two major domestic knockout trophies in English football, alongside the FA Cup, and one of the three top-tier domestic football competitions in England, alongside the Premier League and FA Cup. It concludes in late-February, long before the other tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlton Athletic F
Charlton may refer to: People * Charlton (surname) * Charlton (given name) Places Australia * Charlton, Queensland * Charlton, Victoria * Division of Charlton, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales Canada * Charlton, Ontario * Charlton Island, Nunavut England * Hundred of Charlton, a hundred in the Wokingham area of Berkshire * Charlton, Bristol, a village in Gloucestershire near Bristol, demolished in 1949 * Charlton, Hampshire * Charlton, Hertfordshire * Charlton, London, formerly a village, now a district * Charlton, Northamptonshire * Charlton, Northumberland * Charlton, Oxfordshire, a List of United Kingdom locations: Char-Che#Char, location in Wantage * Charlton, Shropshire, a List of United Kingdom locations: Char-Che#Char, location * Charlton, Kilmersdon, Mendip district, Somerset * Charlton, Shepton Mallet, Mendip district, Somerset * Charlton, Taunton Deane, Somerset * Charlton, Surrey (formerly Middlesex) * Charlton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Bishop (footballer)
Ian William Bishop (born 29 May 1965) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played in the Premier League for West Ham United and Manchester City, as well as in Major League Soccer for Miami Fusion and in the Football League with Everton, Crewe Alexandra, Carlisle United, AFC Bournemouth and Rochdale. He has also played in Wales for Barry Town, in the United States with New Orleans Shell Shockers and for non-league side Radcliffe Borough. He was capped once at England B level. Since retirement, Bishop has worked as a technical director for Evergreen FC. He has also played as a professional poker player and now resides in Miami, Florida. Career Bishop was born in inner city Liverpool but shortly afterwards moved to the new Cantril Farm housing estate, and on leaving school in July 1981 he joined Everton, turning professional for the 1983–84 season under the management of Howard Kendall – who had taken over during the same s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Ham United F
West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''vest'' in Romanian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος Hesperus, hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin Occident, occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב (maarav) 'west' from עֶרֶב (erev) 'evening'. West is sometimes abbreviated as W. Naviga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
