Marked for Atte Joronen
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad29 Jan 2035
Tempers go at HIFK
Hernán Taborda 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.
Squad29 Jan 2035
Words at HIFK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stepan Oganesyan 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.
Squad29 Jan 2035
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tim Pukki commits to HIFK for another 3 years.
In brief
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Squad
The manager has not finished forgetting Atte Joronen's mistake
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces23 Oct 2034
The mood at HIFK has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad23 Oct 2034
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at HIFK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Oct 2034
Stepan Oganesyan 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Jul 2034
Carlos Gómez is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Carlos Gómez: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match5 Jul 2034
HIFK through in the cup
A 1‑1 win over Inter Turku, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match8 Jul 2034
HIFK taken apart
0‑3 to RoPS, 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.
Player ratings10 Jul 2034
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Jul 2034
Tempers go at HIFK
Hernán Taborda 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.
Squad10 Jul 2034
Words at HIFK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stepan Oganesyan 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.
Squad10 Jul 2034
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rodrigo Meccia and HIFK agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom10 Jul 2034
Inquest at HIFK
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Player ratings10 Jul 2034
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Dec 2033
Tempers go at HIFK
Hernán Taborda 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.
Squad19 Dec 2033
Niko Hukka 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.
Squad19 Dec 2033
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Atte Joronen and HIFK agree another 3 years.