Kalle Parviainen

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Kalle Parviainen
Kalle Parviainen KuPS.jpg
Parviainen with KuPS in 2005
Personal information
Date of birth (1982-10-03) 3 October 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Kuopio, Finland [1]
Height1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder, striker, defender
Team information
Current team
 Inter Turku
(sporting director)
Number 5
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2001–2005 KuPS 117 (26)
2006–2010 Haka 63 (7)
2011–2013 Inter Turku 4 (0)
International career‡
2010 Finland 1 (0)
Managerial career
2024– Inter Turku (sporting director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 June 2014
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 May 2010

Kalle Parviainen (born 3 October 1982) is a Finnish former professional football striker who currently works as the sporting director of the Veikkausliiga side Inter Turku in Finland.

While Parviainen was the leading scorer at his previous club, KuPS, he has played mostly as a defender at FC Haka. Versatile Parviainen played as a midfielder before becoming a striker. On 26 October 2010 he signed a three-year contract with FC Inter. [2]

He made his national team debut on 29 May 2010, in a friendly against Poland.

After his retirement from playing career, Parviainen has worked as a youth coach and academy director of his former club Inter Turku, and for the Finnish FA. Currently he serves as a sporting director of Inter Turku since 2024.

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References

  1. ↑ "Veikkausliiga - Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
  2. ↑ Parviainen joins Inter Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)


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