Antti Muurinen

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Antti Muurinen
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Muurinen in 2017
Personal information
Date of birth (1954-03-04) 4 March 1954 (age 71)
Place of birth Valkeakoski, Finland
Managerial career
YearsTeam
1981–1987 KontU
1988–1993 Kuusysi
1994–1996 Jaro
1997–1999 HJK Helsinki
2000–2005 Finland
2006–2007 Lahti
2007–2012 HJK Helsinki
2014 MYPA
2016–2017 HIFK

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

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Muurinen served as the head coach of the Finland national team. He led Finland in qualifying campaigns for the 2002 World Cup, UEFA Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup, although the team failed to reach the finals in each instance.

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

In 2006, Muurinen was appointed manager of FC Lahti [2] in Finland's Veikkausliiga. Before the end of the 2007 season he returned to HJK Helsinki, a club he had previously managed from 1997 to 1999. [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 achieved 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.

He was inducted into the Finnish Football Hall of Fame in 2019.

Honours

Double

Individual

References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20111005170301/http://www.futismaailma.com/taustat/vapaapotku.php?id=27. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2010.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "Muurinen jätti FC Lahden, HJK:hon loppukaudeksi – Veikkausliiga – Jalkapallo – Sport – MTV.fi" (in Finnish). Mtv3.fi. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  3. "HJK Helsinki". HJK.fi. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  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 2 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)