Samuli Yliaska, who spelled in the Veikkausliiga, remained a star flight due to injuries.
Samuli “Sime” Yliaska Today, the best known rock festival, Simerock, is the largest of his nickname rock festival, the largest of the events in Lapland. The sudden end of the football career was contributed to the end of the event organizer.
Simerock will be held in Rovaniemi, where Yliaska pushed into the starry sky of domestic football in the mid-1990s-even if only for a moment.
Rovaniemi, a childhood and adolescence, was a real football city. In the late 1980s, RoPS won two SM bronze medals and advanced in the spring 1988 in the Cup Winner Cup in the quarterfinals, where he fell to Marseille.
The Yliaska route to the RoPS representative team went through several bends as he moved to Sodankylä for four years at the age of 11, whose football conditions were not at Rovaniemi level.
– It was annoying to move, as a football hall had just been opened in Rovaniemi. In Sodankylä, I got the keys from the high school principal to the school hall, where I was training alone crazy, Yliaska remembers.
At the age of 13, Yliaska was brought to the local Sopa representative team, which played the Lapland Vitosivar. The game trips were long, up to 300 kilometers.
– It was probably the world’s shit football series, but the opponents were adult men, which really developed me a lot. When I returned to Rovaniemi at Sports High School, I had evolved past my peers, and they were flying to the walls in duels. After all, I had had to survive in men’s games as a teenager against foresters.
Blue -eyed
Yliaska received his Veikkausliiga debut for the rest of 1993 when Keith Armstrong Raised 19-year-old RoPS to the representative team. For the next season, the first Zambian reinforcements arrived in the Arctic Circle, and the era that ended in the 2010s, which ended with match manipulation sentences.
– At that time, I was so blue -eyed that I didn’t doubt anything. There were seasons when we confirmed the series as early as July, after which we got strange games, Yliaska says.
– Sambia’s performances thrown a lot. One of the central defenders was the best player I had ever seen, but quite rarely did he amused him.
As the later exploration of the 2008-11, 24 matches were revealed. Identified as one of the main factors Zeddy sailet He played in RoPs already over the time.
Ridiculous offer
Yliaska rose to national awareness in the RoPS shirt in 1995.
– It was my first full year and on the other hand my last intact years. I played the button season and I was fifth in the whole series star statistics.
The Bosman rule, who released the club’s non-contracted players, made its income, so RoPS had the last chance to get compensation for the highly raised over-the-back market value.
– I would have liked to continue in RoPS, but the contract offer was so bad that it was forced to reject. It was the worst of the representative team, even though I considered myself one of the best in the team, Yliaska recalls.
– I think the chairman made it intentionally so that the club would still get me compensation.
FC Inter, who rose to the Veikkausliiga season in 1996, wanted an overlap, but the clubs did not reach a consensus. The transfer amount was about one hundred thousand marks, which was the second largest of the season.
The transfer to the Turku cult team seemed to be written in the stars, as even the overwhelming had already had time as a green artist.
– I think the artist speech was only due to my long hair, because I didn’t get artistic in my style of play. I liked the British football and wanted to play in that style myself.
The main task?
Samuli Yliaska is fourth from the left in the picture of the RoPS Plymouth district team. The picture also includes Jani Meriläinen (goalkeeper) and Veikkausliiga goal king from 1998 to Matti Hiukka (ninth left). Samuli Yliaska’s home album
After the peak season, self -confidence was high, but in Turku everything went wrong from the beginning. The first half a year went to recovery from the groin surgery, after which the return in the semi -conditioning crumbled his confidence.
– The outsider does not necessarily realize how much transition to a new environment is affected. This is a sport of self -confidence, and without confidence, there is nothing.
In the 1997 season, Armstrong offered Yliaska an opportunity to revive his career by attracting this Valkeakoski Haka.
– I’ve always got along with the British kouts. In 1995, RoPS coached Graham Williams I was my best coach, but I also liked Keke. When Keke took me hook, I guess he didn’t hate me, even though I had certainly made opinions at a young age.
After the championship season, Haka, who had fallen to number one, went to victory, leaving the gambling time of the acquired over the season.
– Even though we were number one, it was the best team of my career, both skillfully and in their spirit. I was training hard and my confidence recovered.
Yliaska mentions as the main task of the season as a young person Teemu Tainion pushing into the army.
-In addition to “Temen”, Haka had another future Premier League player, Marlon Harewood. I lived with Marlon, and we worked out a lot about my three: I, Marlon and Teme. So I have always remembered praising that two -thirds of our group got into the Premiership.
To Hong Kong?
There was also overall tuning, although his career became increasingly broken with injuries. After a few RoPS seasons, the London agent offered a transfer to the world.
– My agent offered the opportunity to move to Hong Kong, but I said I wanted to go to England, regardless of the series level. In 2001, I played a screening match for non -contracted players in London, which went to the button. We won 2-1 and I made both of our goals.
The top performance scared himself.
– I had praised myself for the agent, but after the game I had to quilt that I wasn’t really that good. I just wanted to be honest because I didn’t want a familiar situation in Turku that I was disappointing after my purchase. At least QPR was interested, but nothing concrete came.
The foreign career eventually covered one match, which Yliaska played in Harrowborough, who was coached by his agent.
In the summer of 2001, the games continued for five more matches in VPS until Yliaska received a star surgeon due to a septum Sakari from Orava Recommendation for ending a gaming career.
– I had been injured since 1995, so I had six years to get used to the idea of quitting. The footballer was my only identity, so at the age of 26 I was out of direction.
Prejudice
Initially, the ex-football professional’s new career choice aroused prejudice.
– Our provincial magazines wrote whether this football man is a bird or a fish when trying to organize a festival, Yliaska says.
– Nowadays it goes the other way around. Nobody remembers that I have played, but I have to tell others about it myself. As I was preparing the juniors for the season, our players were Udelly what it was doing as a coach.
Playing and coaching are already missed, but the king is still in the mind of Yliaska.
– If I hadn’t started as a festival coach, I would have become a coach. Yes, Futis was so important and I took coaching courses during my player time. Nowadays I follow the Premier League and the Veikkausliiga, and I also go to RoPS games.
The current state of football in the hometown makes the man think about.
– I was on the barn in the audience to encourage, after which it was great to be able to represent Rops myself. It is sad that you can no longer see the main series football here.