TPS management made heavy decisions on Wednesday night. The traditional club leadership positions need to get more Turku people.
The TPS season is over, but a lot is happening in the club’s background. Tomi Natri / All Over Press
The SM League team TPS announced on Thursday that sports director Rauli Urama and head coach Tommi Miettinen have been kicked out of the company.
According to information received by Iltalehti, the matter was sealed with a meeting of HC TPS Turku Oy’s Board of Directors on Wednesday evening.
Back in December, TPS used a two -year option clause in head coach Miettinen.
– The option had to be used in good time that we had no view of athletic success. Then we went through the things that we wanted to change. Those things did not change, you will be chairman of TPS I guess Koskinen For Iltalehti, reasons behind Miettinen’s kicks.
Miettinen coached the Turku team for the last two seasons.
Alien?
Tommi Miettinen had two years of contract in Turku. The value of the two -year contract is probably approximately EUR 350,000. Roni
Is it possible that TPS will next hire a foreign head coach?
– There is no comment on that when that type of crop has not been made. Categorically, it is not excluded, Koskinen replies.
According to Koskinen, TPS does not have the name of a new sports director or head coach.
– The search has been launched, things have not been prepared.
Urama worked as TPS Sports Director since 2020. The man’s kicks were reportedly influenced by the fact that the club’s A, B and C juniors were weakly performed this season.
More Turku residents
Kai Koskinen is the chairman of the hockey side of TPS. Joel Maalmi
It has been a long time in the Turku area that there are very few people of Turku or Turku -based coaching or operational leadership in the club’s league team.
Chairman of the Board of Directors is from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Urama is from Rauma corners and Miettinen from Kuopio, assistant coach from outside Turku. Managing director Aki Holma is from Tampere.
Koskinen does not directly promise that TPS’s leadership will be in turmoil.
– The best possible people are being sought for open tasks. If there are no people from Turku in the management, that’s not a good thing. But Turku is not categorically guided by choices.
The background of the club’s background company is firmly in the local hands.
Westerlund station?
Erkka Westerlund is in many TPS. AOP / Tomi Natri
Former Lions head coach Erkka Westerlund enjoys great confidence in the TPS organization, even though the man has no TPS background.
Westerlund is a member of the board and part of the three -person management team. Westerlund’s continuation of the club’s sports leadership will be resolved later.
– At the same time, when the new sports director is selected, the entire sports leadership will be rethought. The whole thing is considered from a clean table.
– I will not comment on the government issue, or its composition, Koskinen says.
The Turku season in the Finnish Champions League was weak. TPS finished 12th in the regular season. The team was in Playout-Vaara until the last regular season round.
TPS fell in the first round of the playoffs against SaiPa.