Tiina Sofia Salmén (born 3 August 1984) is a Finnish former

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, who last played for

Klepp IL Klepp IL is a Norwegian sports club from the municipality of Klepp. It was founded on 1 October 1919, and has sections for football, handball and gymnastics as well as the less active sections for athletics and orienteering. Best known for t ...

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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 ...

. She previously played for

HJK Helsinki Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (), commonly known as HJK Helsinki (), or simply as HJK (), is a Finnish football club based in Helsinki. The club competes in Veikkausliiga, the top division of the Finnish football league system. Founded in 1907, the ...

in Finland's Naisten Liiga and

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in the Toppserien. As a member of the Finnish national team, she took part in the

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

and

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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. In 2007, she was named Finnish Women's Player of the Year. After the 2011 Toppserien season, Salmén and compatriot Miia Niemi both left Klepp and retired from football.

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1984 births Living people Finnish women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Norway Finland women's international footballers Finnish expatriate women's footballers Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (women) players Kansallinen Liiga players Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Toppserien players Women's association football midfielders Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Finnish sportswomen {{Finland-footy-midfielder-stub