The FF Jaro Sentinel
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at FF Jaro
Matias Paavola and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market12 Oct 2026
FF Jaro promote Amos Kamara from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Amos Kamara has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Oct 2026
Eero Lam steps up from the FF Jaro academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Eero Lam has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Rasmus Leislahti
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rasmus Leislahti, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Elias Tamminen knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FF Jaro, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Senne Vits question follows FF Jaro around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Senne Vits’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Elliot Holmäng has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at FF Jaro will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hensen Anponsa remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at FF Jaro would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Matias Paavola has settled at FF Jaro
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Fabian Østigård Ness
- Squad Hensen Anponsa back in training