Kimmo Tauriainen

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Kimmo Tauriainen
Personal information
Date of birth (1972-03-16) 16 March 1972 (age 51)
Place of birth Rovaniemi, Finland [1]
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1983–1989 RoPs
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1989–1992 RoPs 21 (0)
1993–1996 Kontu 75 (11)
1996 KePS 21 (2)
1997 GBK 5 (0)
1998–2001 Atlantis 103 (16)
2002 Start 23 (4)
2003 Jokerit 22 (0)
2004–2005 MyPa 15 (3)
2006 Atlantis 24 (9)
Total309(45)
International career
1991 Finland U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kimmo Tauriainen (born 16 March 1972) is a Finnish former footballer.

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Career

He has played for RoPS, KePS, Kontu, FC Jokerit, MyPa and Atlantis FC. He also played one season in Norwegian IK Start. He won the Finnish Cup with Atlantis FC in 2001 and with MyPa in 2004. Tauriainen has also won Finnish championship in 2005 with MyPa.

Tauriainen returned to Atlantis from MyPa in 2006. He had to end his professional career because of knee injury after season 2006.

Personal life

He is the brother of fellow professional footballers Pasi Tauriainen and Vesa Tauriainen, and the uncle of Jimi Tauriainen and Julius Tauriainen. [2]

Nowadays Kimmo works as a sales person in Duosport. Kimmo is also getting married during summer 2009 with singer Maria.

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References

  1. 1 2 Kimmo Tauriainen at WorldFootball.net
  2. "Suomalainen futislupaus solmi ammattilaissopimuksen Chelsean kanssa" [The Finnish football star signed a professional contract with Chelsea]. mtvuutiset.fi (in Finnish). 9 March 2021.