Oskari Multala

Defensive Midfielder - Ilves U20
3 Dec 2026
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Process

Marked for Oskari Multala

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The Ilves Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Wages eat 232% of everything Ilves earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Goudouss Bamba in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ilves this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Faris Krkalić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Faris Krkalić, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Ilves Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Ilves out

Out, 1‑1 to FF Jaro, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Otso Virtanen decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Player ratings

A debut Oskari Multala will not forget — 7.29

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.29 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market

Breidablik join the queue for Oskari Paavola

Add another name to the list: Breidablik have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Oskari Paavola. The answer from Ilves has not changed — yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Ilves

Stanislav Baranov 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Stanislav Baranov

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Jorge Troncoso

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Sauli Väisänen in the eights

A performance of 8.45 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Maksim Stjopin misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

In brief