Pekka Hämäläinen (25 October 1938 – 4 June 2013) was a Finnish

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 f ...

player and administrator.

Career

Hämäläinen played for

HIFK HIFK, the Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, Helsingfors (IFK, Helsingfors) rf (officially abbreviated IFK Helsingfors, colloquially often Helsingfors IFK or Helsingin IFK) is a multi-sport association based in Helsinki, Finland. Formed in 1897 on ...

, winning the national championship in 1961, and playing for them in the

1962–63 European Cup The 1962–63 European Cup was the eighth season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football tournament. The competition was won by AC Milan, who beat two-time defending champions Benfica in the final at Wembley Stadium, London, on 22 May ...

.Wanhat legendat: Pekka Hämäläinen
hifkfotboll.fi, 19 September 2011 He was the President of the

Football Association of Finland The Football Association of Finland (, SPL; ) is the governing body of football (soccer), football and futsal in Finland. It was founded in Helsinki on 19 May 1907. The SPL organises the Finland national football team, men's and Finland women's ...

between 1997 and 2009.

Honours

HIFK *

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 (1908-1929) ...

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

Palloliiton entinen puheenjohtaja Pekka Hämäläinen on kuollut

Yle Yleisradio Oy (; ), abbreviated as Yle () (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a joint-stock comp ...

, 4 June 2013 Individual *

Captain's Ball: 2011

References

1938 births 2013 deaths Finnish men's footballers Association football executives HIFK Fotboll players Mestaruussarja players Men's association football defenders Football Association of Finland executives 20th-century Finnish sportsmen Finnish Football Hall of Fame inductees {{Finland-footy-defender-stub