Otto-Pekka Jurvainen

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Otto-Pekka Jurvainen
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Personal information
Date of birth (1985-02-01) 1 February 1985 (age 38)
Place of birth Helsinki, Finland
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Wingback or Winger
Team information
Current team
HIFK
Number 12
Youth career
1996–1999 PuiU
2000–2004 HJK
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2003Atlantis FC 21 (4)
2004 HJK 6 (0)
2004Klubi 04 9 (0)
2005 Atlantis FC 19 (2)
2006 KäPa 25 (9)
2007–2014 PK-35 199 (22)
2015– HIFK 15 (4)
International career
2000 Finland U15 3 (0)
2001 Finland U16 11 (1)
2002 Finland U17 9 (0)
2003 Finland U18 3 (0)
2004 Finland U19 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 March 2016

Otto-Pekka Jurvainen (born 1 February 1985) is a Finnish footballer, who represents HIFK in the Veikkausliiga, the premier division of football in Finland.

He is a former youth talent of Puistolan Urheilijat of Helsinki. He has played for HJK as a youth player as well. [1] He has represented Finnish national team on different youth levels on 33 occasions. [2] He made his debut in the highest level of Finnish football, Veikkausliiga, on 13 May 2004. During that season, he played in 6 matches in the league for HJK and in 9 matches for the reserve team Klubi 04.

After his spell in HJK, he moved to Atlantis FC in 2005 to play Ykkönen. The next season in 2006, he played for Käpylän Pallo who played in Kakkonen, the third level of Finnish football. The next season, he moved to play for PK-35 of Vantaa, who played on the second highest level in Ykkönen. Jurvainen spent seven years in PK-35 before joining HIFK after the season of 2014, who were promoted to Veikkausliiga.

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References

  1. http://www.pk35vantaa.com/otto-pekka-jurvainen
  2. "Suomalaisen jalkapallon koti". February 2022.