Antti Muurinen

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Antti Muurinen
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Personal information
Date of birth (1954-03-04) 4 March 1954 (age 70)
Place of birth Valkeakoski, Finland
Managerial career
YearsTeam
1981–1987 FC Kontu
1988–1993 FC Kuusysi
1994–1996 Jaro
1997–1999 HJK Helsinki
2000–2005 Finland
2006–2007 FC Lahti
2007–2012 HJK Helsinki
2014 MYPA
2016–2017 HIFK

Antti Muurinen (born March 4, 1954) is a Finnish football coach.

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Muurinen is probably best known as the head coach of the Finnish national team. He led Finland in qualifying campaigns for the 2002 World Cup, Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup, failing to reach the finals each time.

In June 2005 Finnish football fans held a protest against Muurinen, and after a 4–0 defeat against Netherlands, the Finnish FA sacked him. [1]

In 2006, Muurinen was hired as the manager of FC Lahti [2] in Finland's Veikkausliiga. Before the end of the 2007 season he returned to HJK Helsinki, where he managed them from the 1997 to 1999 season. [3]

Muurinen is also known for leading HJK Helsinki into the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 1998–99 season, the only time a Finnish club has managed this feat. He has also won the Finnish championship with HJK Helsinki in 1997, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 as well as with FC Kuusysi in 1989 and 1991, the Finnish Cup with HJK Helsinki in 1998 and 2008, and the Finnish League Cup with FC Lahti in 2007.

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  2. ↑ "Muurinen jätti FC Lahden, HJK:hon loppukaudeksi – Veikkausliiga – Jalkapallo – Sport – MTV.fi" (in Finnish). Mtv3.fi. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  3. ↑ "HJK Helsinki". HJK.fi. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  4. ↑ Kuukauden valmentaja ja pelaaja kohtaavat perjantaina Archived 11 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
  5. ↑ HJK miehitti lokakuun joukkueen Archived 5 February 2013 at archive.today (in Finnish)
  6. ↑ Jaron Helmke huhtikuun Kuukauden pelaaja Archived 2014-05-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
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