Veikko Asikainen
Appearance
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 18 April 1918 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 14 June 2002 | (aged 84)||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1934–1946 | TPS Turku | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1946–1957 | FC Haka | ||||||||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1938–1955 | Finland | 56 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Veikko Asikainen (18 April 1918 – 14 June 2002) was a Finnish footballer. He earned 56[1] caps at international level between 1938 and 1955. He was also part of Finland's squad at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[2] At club level Asikainen played for TPS and Haka.[3]
Honours
[edit]- Finnish Championship: 1939, 1941
- Finnish Cup: 1955
References
[edit]- ^ Finland – International Player Records
- ^ "Veikko Asikainen". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- ^ "Legendat FC TPS". Archived from the original on 2012-04-30. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
External links
[edit]- Veikko Asikainen at National-Football-Teams.com
- Veikko Asikainen at WorldFootball.net
Categories:
- 1918 births
- 2002 deaths
- Finnish men's footballers
- Finland men's international footballers
- Turun Palloseura footballers
- FC Haka players
- Footballers from Turku
- Olympic footballers for Finland
- Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Men's association football midfielders
- 20th-century Finnish sportsmen
- Finnish football biography stubs