Marked for Taavi Kangaskokko
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Niki Hasselman was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SJK Akatemia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Taavi Kangaskokko is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Noah Rantasalmi and SJK Akatemia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at SJK Akatemia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Niki Hasselman is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Adam Zahedi breaks a bone — 44 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Taavi Kangaskokko and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at SJK Akatemia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Niki Hasselman is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Taavi Kangaskokko is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Niki Hasselman and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aniis Machaal was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑3 to TPS, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at SJK Akatemia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Nobody left the SJK Akatemia dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Topias Töllinen and SJK Akatemia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Rasmus Hradecky left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Taavi Kangaskokko was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Zahedi, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Eerik Salmivuori and SJK Akatemia agree another 4 years.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SJK Akatemia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sayibu Yakubu falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at SJK Akatemia, another week without a signature from Lucas Kyllönen.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.