Juha Hakola

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Juha Hakola
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Juha Hakola with VPS in 2018.
Personal information
Full name Juha Pekka Hakola
Date of birth (1987-10-27) 27 October 1987 (age 35)
Place of birth Espoo, Finland
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 Grankulla IFK
Number 7
Youth career
0000−2006 HJK Helsinki
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006 Klubi 04 2 (0)
2007–2009 Flora Tallinn 65 (25)
2009–2010 Heracles Almelo 32 (1)
2010–2011 Willem II 17 (3)
2011–2013 Ferencváros 26 (3)
2013 KuPS 8 (3)
2014 Aris Limassol 11 (1)
2014–2016 KuPS 46 (5)
2017–2018 VPS 63 (9)
2019 Honka 24 (5)
2020– Grankulla IFK 23 (3)
International career‡
2007–2008 Finland U21 8 (0)
2007–2009 Finland U23 1 (0)
2009– Finland 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 November 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 February 2009

Juha Pekka Hakola (born 27 October 1987) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Grankulla IFK in the Kakkonen.

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Club career

Hakola played two seasons for FC Flora Tallinn. Hakola was named the Meistriliiga Footballer of the Year for his performances for Flora in 2007. In 2007, he also went on trial with RCD Espanyol. On 30 December it was announced that Hakola signed a 1.5-year contract with Heracles Almelo in the Dutch Eredivisie. [2] He made his league debut for the new team on 17 January 2009 against ADO Den Haag. Hakola scored his first goal in Eredivisie from a freekick on 19 April 2009 against NAC Breda.

On 25 June 2010 Hakola signed a 2+1 year contract with Willem II. [3] Next summer however, following Willem's relegation from Eredivisie, Hakola left the club and signed a two-year contract with Ferencváros in Hungary.

In 2013, he had a brief stint in his home country, playing for KuPS. Next year, Hakola signed a contract with Aris Limassol.

Hakola signed with FC Honka for the 2019 season. The deal was announced already on 15 November 2018. [4]

In June 2020, Hakola signed with Grankulla IFK. [5]

International career

Hakola was nominated for the Finland national football team on 5 February 2009 [6] for a friendly international match with Portugal, he entered as a substitute late in the game. He had been a member of the under 21 national team, and also has one cap for the under 23 team.

Honours

Ferencváros

Individual

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References

  1. ↑ "A Ferencvárosi Torna Club hivatalos honlapja - Official site of Ferencváros Budapest". Archived from the original on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  2. ↑ "De Bruijn Media Language Tools 2007". Elfmagazine.nl. Retrieved 27 April 2010.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ Lasnik en Hakola naar Willem II (in Dutch)
  4. ↑ Hongan sopimustilanne kaudelle 2019 hyvällä mallilla Archived 21 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine , esporthonka.fi, 15 November 2018
  5. ↑ "Juha Hakola Grankulla IFK:hon - Juha Hakola förstärker GrIFK". GrIFK Fotboll (in Finnish). 5 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "Suomen Palloliitto – Artikkeliarkisto". Palloliitto.fi. 5 February 2009. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
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Preceded by Meistriliiga Footballer of
the Season
2007		Succeeded by
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