Anna Koivunen comes from a real sports family.
Anna Koivunen has become the number one goalkeeper this year. Aop
Pearl Anna Koivunen made his debut in football value races immediately with zero.
Iceland caused a few really scary -looking hassles on the Turku Veskar site, but Koivunen remained calm all the time.
– I think we scored the box well. Those long throws are challenging. They are difficult to disassemble because the ball is in the air for so long, Koivunen said downstairs in the Stockhorn Arena.
At the very end of the match, the goalkeeper took a tactical injury and played a small breath break in the midst of the Icelandic edition.
– It’s part of the game. Everything has to be done to win. Sometimes it can be delayed by a couple of seconds and enters the opponent’s head.
Every look and gesture of Koivunen exuded confidence. It was as if he had rejected the balls in the European Championship finals all his life.
– As a human being, I’m pretty confident. I know how much work I have done to be a good goalkeeper. I want to be better all the time.
The day after the match, Koivunen was able to analyze his career more closely. It has not traveled the most direct route to the top of football.
– I played volleyball for a long time. I remember I hated the football to the beginning. I don’t even remember why. It was really annoying. I had to become a volleyball professional, Koivunen smiles.
Volleyball background
Undoubtedly, the volleyball may have made only the 23-year-old Koivunen’s Helmar’s number one-in-one much more experienced Let Tamminen and Tinja-Riikka Korpelan instead of.
– I’ve got really good soles from volleyball. Elasticity, ball eye and explosive, he lists.
Koivunen stopped volleyball at the age of 13.
– It was my number one point for a long time. Futis came into the charts a little later. It was a bit of a side hobby.
– But I noticed that I’m pretty good here.
Koivunen kept his goal clean in Iceland. EPA / AOP
Turku Medical School has grown the men’s number one Lukas HradeckyLittle rush Lucas Bergström And now also the pearl’s birch.
– I got a really good goalkeeper coach right from the start, Koivunen thanks Eemeli Repo.
– He has built me as a goalkeeper. It has been important that there has been a reliable coach alongside that has believed me from the start.
Sport
Koivunen also thanks his father for his leading his football career. What “Villain” Koivunen played in a couple of seasons to sneak Vladimir Jursinov Under the TPS league team.
However, mainly the kit is remembered for the Kiekko-67 shirt.
– Yes, I’ve heard some stuff from the stroke. We have to admit that we have not been terribly talked about lately, Koivunen laughs.
Jursinov made sure that hockey players who had not reached the league group in the summer blade. The Russian southeast brought hard physical coaching to Finland.
– We are the same with the stroke. We like to work out hard. I’m not surprised if there was a decent groove.
The father’s hockeyra was over even before the birth of Anna’s daughter. After that, he quickly moved to the service force.
– We are a sports family. Dad has taken me everywhere I wanted to do with Sport.
– I have been able to share a fire with him with him. It has become a certain passion and mental strength.
Koivunen’s European Championship camp actually got a catastrophic start when he was struggling in the Dutch training game.
Vivianne Miema (Orange Shirt) acknowledges the ball from the middle of Finnish baking to the net. Aop
Even then, the father came into the picture.
– I was angry and sad. I thought it was now. The father’s first answer was, “You are not a donor. Tomorrow you will be pulling stronger.”
The answer was seen on Wednesday in Thun. Finland took its first European Championship win in 16 years and Koivunen kept his goal clean.
– I remember when I was taken to the first football training, I immediately had a desire to go to the finish. I want to be the last lock to save the team and be a hero.
– I enjoyed it there.