Inter Turku U18

Finnish Veikkausliiga U18
8 Aug 2026
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The Inter Turku Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A brace, and Loic Essomba takes the afternoon — 9.37

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Loic Essomba provided it, and the 9.37 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Alie Conteh, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.08

A mark of 8.08 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Janne-Pekka Laine delivers — 7.57

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Janne-Pekka Laine scored, was marked 7.57, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Robert Ivanov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Robert Ivanov and Inter Turku agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Eetu Huuhtanen 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 Inter Turku this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Loic Essomba sends Inter Turku past HJK

It finished 4‑3, and it was Loic Essomba’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Inter Turku.

Match

7 goals as Inter Turku and HJK go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Inter Turku and HJK, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

A row about effort at Inter Turku

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Prosper Ahiabu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

Inter Turku supporters have found a favourite in Alie Conteh

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Alie Conteh 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.

In brief