Tero Forss

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Tero Forss
Personal information
Date of birth (1968-07-12) 12 July 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Finland
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [1]
Position(s) Forward, midfielder
Team information
Current team
 KaaPo Women (joint-manager)
Youth career
1979–1981 Pyrkivä Turku
1982–1984 ÅIFK
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1985 ÅIFK (9)
1986–1987 SalPa (10)
1988 ÅIFK 22 (11)
1989 Reipas Lahti 27 (10)
1990 RoPS 23 (5)
1991 TPS 20 (6)
1991–1992 RoPS 38 (5)
1993–2001 Inter Turku 182 (74)
1997 → VG-62 (loan) 1 (0)
2001 VG-62 8 (0)
2002–2005 FC Boda 68 (12)
2008–2010 TuWe 18 (1)
International career
1984 Finland U16 4 (0)
1985 Finland U17 7 (1)
Managerial career
2003–2005 FC Boda (player-manager)
2010 TuWe
2015 FC Boda
2016–2017 BK-46
2021– KaaPo Women (joint-manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tero Forss (born 12 July 1968) is a retired Finnish professional footballer, best remembered for his eight years as a forward and midfielder with Inter Turku, for whom he is the record scorer and a member of the club's Hall of Fame. [2] [3] After retiring as a player, he became a manager and managed FC Boda, TuWe and BK-46. [4] [5] As of October 2021, together with Markku Tolonen, he was joint-manager of KaaPo Women. [6]

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Personal life

Forss is a member of a football family. [4] His father (Rainer) was a player, manager and coach and his sons Marcus and Niclas are involved in football. [4]

Honours

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References

  1. ↑ Tero Forss at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ "Briefly in English | FC Inter". fcinter.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Hall of Fame -kunniagalleriaan 16 Inter-legendaa". FC Inter (in Finnish). 19 October 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 "Två generationer Forss fortsätter i BK-46" (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Veikkausliigan Pelaajat" . Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Tero Forss ja Markku Tolonen Naisten valmennuskaksikko!". Kaarinan Pojat (in Finnish). Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  7. ↑ "Tero Forss Veikkausliigan legendaksi". www.turunweikot.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 June 2017.


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