Lassi Hurskainen

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Lassi Hurskainen
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Personal information
Full name Lassi Elias Hurskainen
Date of birth (1987-04-08) 8 April 1987 (age 36)
Place of birth Joensuu, Finland
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
SexyPöxyt
Number 1
Youth career
1995–2000 Joensuu Ratanat
2001–2002 Joensuun Pallo
2003–2005 Jippo Juniors
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008–2011 UNC Asheville Bulldogs 74 (0)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006 SC Riverball 24 (0)
2007 JIPPO 19 (0)
2008–2012 SC Riverball 38 (1)
2013–2014 JIPPO 30 (0)
2014–2015 HIFK 16 (0)
2015–2016 Töölön Taisto 22 (0)
2018– SexyPöxyt 23 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lassi Elias Hurskainen (born 8 April 1987) is a Finnish footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for UNC Asheville Men's Soccer before graduating from UNC Asheville in Fall of 2011.

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After moving back to Finland, Hurskainen played for JIPPO in Joensuu during 2013–2014. In 2014 Hurskainen moved to Helsinki and joined HIFK Fotboll (Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Helsingfors), a club founded in 1897. The football section was established in 1907, the same year that the Football Association of Finland was founded. During the season 2014 the team won the Finnish Football League First Division and was promoted into the highest tier of Finnish football, Veikkausliiga. At the same time Hurskainen decided to focus more on football trick shot videos that he had already started to produce during his stay in UNC Asheville. Currently Hurskainen plays football as a goalkeeper for SexyPöxyt, a club playing in a Finnish Football League Third Division.

Personal life

Hurskainen grew up in Joensuu, Finland and attended the Joensuun Lyseon Lukio (Upper secondary school). In 2007, Hurskainen served in the Finnish Defense Forces.

YouTube videos

On 14 February 2011, Hurskainen had with the help of two friends from UNC Asheville created a football trick shot video inspired by various other sports trick shot videos and uploaded it to YouTube. The video's view count grew to an upwards of 3 million over the course of the next couple weeks and months. The video and subsequent videos were featured on ESPN, Good Morning America, and various global local news channels respectively. [1]

Hurskainen has continued producing football trick shot videos after moving back to Finland. He also worked as a producer for a Finnish Sports TV program Elixir [2] hosting the show for over two years (2013–2015). His own YouTube channel has over 30.000 subscribers and with less than 70 videos he has reached over 11 million viewers. His TOP 3 most viewed videos have been:

  1. Lassi Hurskainen Goalkeeper Tricks, [3] over 4,100,000 views
  2. Lassi Hurskainen Angry Birds, [4] over 3,500,000 views
  3. World Record Football Punch | Robert Helenius vs. Lassi Hurskainen, [5] over 3,000,000 views

In 2016 Hurskainen co-founded a new company called Trick&Treat focusing on social videos. [6]

Honours and awards

Individual

Stats

UNCA Career [18]

ClassYearGPMinGAGAASavesShutouts
Fr.2008–09191904241.20773
So.2009–10181622291.611082
Jr.2010–11181664311.68963
Sr.2011–12191797341.701273
Career2008–127468881181.5440811

UNCA Year Overviews [19]

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References

  1. Original Trick Shot Video
  2. "Elixir.fi | Tervetuloa Elixir CMS Oy:n nettisivulle". www.elixir.fi. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  3. Lassi Hurskainen (14 February 2011), Lassi Hurskainen Goalkeeper Tricks , retrieved 25 March 2016
  4. Lassi Hurskainen (3 October 2011), Lassi Hurskainen Angry Birds , retrieved 25 March 2016
  5. Lassi Hurskainen (13 August 2014), World Record Football Punch: Robert Helenius vs. Lassi Hurskainen , retrieved 25 March 2016
  6. FOOTPONG | Pongfinity vs. Lassi Hurskainen, 23 March 2016, retrieved 25 March 2016
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