FF Jaro U20

12 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process
15 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at FF Jaro

Severi Kähkönen 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.

Squad

Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandros Parras 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Thanasis Papadoudis

“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.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at FF Jaro

Thanasis Papadoudis 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.

Squad

Severi Kähkönen 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.

Squad

Cliques at FF Jaro

It is the quietest kind of dressing-room problem and the one that lasts longest, because nobody has done anything anyone can be disciplined for. 2 players sit outside all 3 groups entirely, which is the detail that tends to matter.

In brief

13 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Luca Weckström keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FF Jaro may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Johan Brunell has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FF Jaro they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Thanasis Papadoudis 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 FF Jaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

12 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Adam Vidjeskog: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FF Jaro have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at FF Jaro

Diogo Tomás 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.

Squad

Alexandros Parras 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.

In brief

11 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Michael Ogungbaro says FF Jaro went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Diogo Tomás 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 FF Jaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Severi Kähkönen 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Real improvement from Thanasis Papadoudis at FF Jaro

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Thanasis Papadoudis is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at FF Jaro

Diogo Tomás 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.

Boardroom

292% of the income goes out in wages at FF Jaro

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

9 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Johan Brunell has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FF Jaro they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Diogo Tomás 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 FF Jaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandros Parras 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.

In brief

8 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at FF Jaro

Thanasis Papadoudis 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.

Squad

Severi Kähkönen 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.

Squad

Diogo Tomás gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

7 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Thanasis Papadoudis 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 FF Jaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Diogo Tomás 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.

Boardroom

FF Jaro beat the market to Wille Nuñez from IFK Mariehamn

IFK Mariehamn will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Wille Nuñez has pre-agreed a move to FF Jaro, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

In brief

6 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Severi Kähkönen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at FF Jaro

Diogo Tomás 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.

Squad

Alexandros Parras 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.

Match

FF Jaro see off FC Lahti

Three points for FF Jaro, 2‑1 the final word against FC Lahti in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Boardroom

354% of the income goes out in wages at FF Jaro

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Thanasis Papadoudis

“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.

In brief

5 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

A brace, and Herman Sjögrell takes the afternoon — 9.18

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Herman Sjögrell provided it, and the 9.18 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Senne Vits keeps FF Jaro in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Johan Brunell has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FF Jaro they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Johan Brunell signs for HIFK while still at FF Jaro

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Johan Brunell has agreed terms with HIFK for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Diogo Tomás 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 FF Jaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Herman Sjögrell sends FF Jaro past KuPS

It finished 3‑2, and it was Herman Sjögrell’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FF Jaro.

Squad

Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Severi Kähkönen 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Adam Vidjeskog

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.94, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Senne Vits gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

4 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put FF Jaro out

Out, 0‑1 to HJK, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match

No end in sight to FF Jaro's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FF Jaro has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Severi Kähkönen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at FF Jaro

Thanasis Papadoudis 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.

Squad

Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diogo Tomás 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Diogo Tomás

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

Squad

Too much change too quickly at FF Jaro

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Match

FF Jaro share the spoils with HIFK

A 1‑1 draw with HIFK leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market

The Severi Kähkönen question follows FF Jaro around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Severi Kähkönen’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

3 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Senne Vits decides it from twelve yards

4 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.

Match

FF Jaro march on in the cup

Ilves are out and FF Jaro go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Joas Vikström sends FF Jaro through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Joas Vikström obliged against Ilves. 2‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is FF Jaro.

Match

4 matches without a win for FF Jaro

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around FF Jaro are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Diogo Tomás 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 FF Jaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandros Parras 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Luca Weckström

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

Player ratings

The kick that got away from Aron Bjonbäck

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Player ratings

Emmanuel Mendy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

2 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Rudi Vikström at 19 — 9.01

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Rudi Vikström did not need any: 9.01, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Diogo Tomás 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 FF Jaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Severi Kähkönen 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.

The terraces

FF Jaro supporters have found a favourite in Rudi Vikström

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Rudi Vikström has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Herman Sjögrell was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.10. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

No hiding place for Oliver Kass Kawo

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

Squad

This league is too small for Diogo Tomás

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. FF Jaro will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market

48 months and counting on Senne Vits

Still no offer on the table, and Senne Vits’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Match

FF Jaro share the spoils with VPS

A 1‑1 draw with VPS leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

1 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Rudi Vikström could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.38

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.38, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Squad

Herman Sjögrell signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Herman Sjögrell commits to FF Jaro for another 4 years.

Squad

Severi Kähkönen 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 FF Jaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ola Kamara 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.

Squad

Senne Vits gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Adam Vidjeskog in the eights

A performance of 8.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market

Nobody at FF Jaro has picked up the phone to Herman Sjögrell

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Match

Honours even between FF Jaro and SJK

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

Antonio Hotta is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FF Jaro has been clear about where Antonio Hotta stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief