The Tampere resident became enthusiastic about the rally with “a hundred”.

Raipe can throw in. Vesa Koivunen

Raimo “Raipe” Helminen was made a 10-year-old face of the hockey magazine in the fall of 2003.

The idea was huge. The modest lynx man would be styled in the same way as the mega star of the football David Beckham.

British was a mammoth name already in 2003 and in the summer he had moved from Manchester United Real Madrid galactico.

– It was the world’s toughest football brand and the most watched player at the time. He was on the cover of Vogue and all the fashion magazines, in the hockey magazine Jussi tribe prime.

– Ok it Leppänen Marko [jutun toimittaja] Invented the extreme that if people are surprised by this. Raipe got along with a hundred.

Teammates remembered

This was what the cover photo of the ice hockey magazine in the fall of 2003. Hockey

The swallowed pearl was initially planted on a barber bench. The result was a brush rising in the middle of the dome, which was colored white.

On top of it, the hockey legend got a striped shirt with open buttons revealing the breasts.

Heimo says that Raipe carried her Becks room with pride. There was no hurry back to the barber, even though there was a new feature on the head that everyone was sure to quote.

– I remember that a bit of it became Raipe’s fucking in the booth, Heimo smiles.

According to the power firm of the hockey, Helminen got the clothes used in the shooting.

The craze of the forty

Raipe Helminen was the captain of Ilves in 2003. Vesa Koivunen

The article itself discusses the identity crisis of Finnish hockey and who would be the next bow in Finland. This is not the case at the time of shooting at 39-year-old Raipe, even with play, it is stated in the first paragraph.

– Raipe is Raipe. He will not become Beckham, a Finnish hockey. And no one wants it, the least he himself, Leppänen underlines in the story.

At the end is a list of names that could be a good “golden boy”. Raipe names the NHL as his own favorite Tuomo Ruudu.

The barber gig was a case, with MTV’s scoreboard and Iltalehti.

Raipe made a promise to IL, which is known to have kept to this day.

– This was the experience, but for the second time I don’t let my hair dye. When I get older, my hair becomes gray by itself. Actually, this is my forty craze, he carved 22 years ago.

If SaiPa wins the championship, the players know what their coach demands.

The appearance of the hockey legend has changed surprisingly little in 22 years. Mikko Lieri/AOP

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