Länsitalo with Lahti in 2015 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1990-06-30) 30 June 1990 (age 34) | ||
Place of birth | Pori, Finland | ||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Right winger | ||
Youth career | |||
1995–2000 | ASV Birkenheide | ||
2000–2004 | FC Thayngen | ||
2004–2006 | FC Schaffhausen | ||
2006–2007 | Pleasant Valley Spartans | ||
2007–2008 | FC Reipas | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2009–2014 | Lahti | 96 | (16) |
2014 | FSV 08 Bissingen | 1 | (0) |
2015–2017 | Lahti | 39 | (4) |
Total | 136 | (20) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jussi Länsitalo (born 30 June 1990) is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as a right winger.
Career
Länsitalo began his professional career with Lahti, and was the club top goalscorer in the 2013 Veikkausliiga season, before suffering a serious knee injury in a match against VPS in June 2013. In July 2014, he moved to German club FSV 08 Bissingen competing in the sixth-tier Verbandsliga Württemberg, where he would play while studying. He returned to Lahti in January 2015, and had a stint plagued by another knee injury, before retiring from football in December 2016, to become sales manager of the club.
References
- "Jussi Länsitalo - Stats centre". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ "Jussi Länsitalon ura jatkuu Saksassa". Kymppipaikka (in Finnish). 26 July 2014.
- Raninen, Aatu (22 April 2015). "Jussi Länsitalo kulki lähtöruudun kautta". Uusi Lahti (in Finnish).
- "FC Lahti saamassa luottopakkinsa sairastuvalta – En halunnut lopettaa loukkaantumiseen". Yle Urheilu (in Finnish). 18 March 2016.
- Luoma, Katja (20 April 2019). "Myyntipäällikkö Jussi Länsitalo jättää FC Lahden". Etelä-Suomen Sanomat (in Finnish).
External links
- Jussi Länsitalo at FC Lahti
- Jussi Länsitalo at Soccerway
- Jussi Länsitalo at WorldFootball.net
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Pori
- Footballers from Satakunta
- Finnish men's footballers
- 21st-century Finnish sportsmen
- Men's association football forwards
- FC Schaffhausen players
- FC Lahti players
- Veikkausliiga players
- Finnish expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Germany