Tiina Salmén

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Tiina Salmén
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Personal information
Full name Tiina Sofia Salmén [1]
Date of birth (1984-08-03) 3 August 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth Finland
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
HJK Helsinki
2006–2010 Amazon Grimstad
2011 Klepp IL 19 (1)
International career
2004–2011 Finland 77 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tiina Sofia Salmén (born 3 August 1984) is a Finnish former football midfielder, who last played for Klepp IL in Norway's Toppserien. [2] She previously played for HJK Helsinki in Finland's Naisten Liiga and Amazon Grimstad in the Toppserien.

As a member of the Finnish national team, she took part in the 2005 and 2009 European Championships. [3] In 2007, she was named Finnish Women's Player of the Year. [4]

After the 2011 Toppserien season, Salmén and compatriot Miia Niemi both left Klepp and retired from football. [5]

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References

  1. "2009 UEFA EUROPEAN WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH PRESS KIT" (PDF). UEFA . Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  2. Profile in Klepp's web
  3. Statistics Archived 2012-04-03 at the Wayback Machine in the Football Association of Finland's web
  4. Finland - Women Player of the Year Awards Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
  5. Primstad, Espen (13 November 2011). "Niemi og Salmén legger opp" (in Norwegian). Klepp IL. Archived from the original on 22 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.