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Markku Kanerva Personal information Full name Markku Kanerva Date of birth 24 May 1964 Place of birth Helsinki, Finland Playing position Defender Club information Current club Finland Number Manager Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1983–1990 HJK Helsinki 184 (26) 1991–1992 IF Elfsborg 44 (3) 1993 FinnPa 26 (1) 1994–1995 HJK Helsinki 42 (1) 1996 FC Honka 1 (0) 1996–1998 HJK Helsinki 37 (1) National team 1986–1995 Finland 59 (1) Teams managed 2003 FC Viikingit 2004–2010 Finland U21 2011- Finland (assistant) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Markku Kanerva (born 24 May 1964) is a Finnish football manager and former player. He is currently managing the Finnish national team.
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Playing career
Kanerva, who is known by the nickname "Rive", was born in Helsinki. In Finland he played as a central defender and full back in his hometown clubs HJK (1983–1990 and 1994–1998) and the season 1994 in the then local rivals FinnPa. The seasons 1991 and 1992 he played in the Swedish team IF Elfsborg. At international level Kanerva went on to win 59 caps, and scored one goals for the Finnish national team. His last years as a player were shadowed by injuries but he was still an important part of the HJK defence. His playing career ended in 1998 which included the historical Champions League participation. At the Finnish top league he played total of 291 matches and scored 29 goals.
Coaching career
Kanerva worked as a school teacher already during his playing career, but since then he has been concentrating on football coaching. In 2001 and 2002 he was an assistant coach of Jyrki Heliskoski and Keith Armstrong in his former club HJK, and in 2003 he was the head coach of the East Helsinki club FC Viikingit. As the head coach of under-21 side he led the team to the 2009 European Championships final tournament. In the same year he was awarded the Coach of the Year in Finland.
On 29 November 2010 it was announced that Kanerva would coach the Finnish national team for the Spring period in 2011 while the Finnish FA will be seaking a new head coach.[1][2] Mika Laurikainen will take his place as the U21 coach.
Sources
- (Finnish) Veikkausliigan verkkonäyttely: MARKKU KANERVA
- National Football Team profile
- World Football profile
References
Finland squad – 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship 1 Jaakkola • 2 Jalasto • 3 Raitala • 4 Portin • 5 Turunen • 6 Sparv • 7 Hämäläinen • 8 M.Hetemaj • 9 Sadik • 10 Otaru • 11 Parikka • 12 Masalin • 13 Kärkkäinen • 14 Aho • 15 Äijälä • 16 P.Hetemaj • 17 Hakola • 18 Vasara • 19 Kokko • 20 Pukki • 21 Viljanen • 22 Toivio • 23 Lehtovaara • Coach: Kanerva
Finland national football team – Öhman (1922) · Fabra (1936–37) · Obitz (1939) · Mårtensson (1945) · Tammisalo (1946) · Lehtonen (1947–55) · Weinreich (1955–58) · Lehtonen (1959–61) · Laaksonen (1962–74) · Kosma (1975) · Rytkönen (1975–78) · Malm (1979–81) · Kuusela (1982–87) · Vakkila (1988–92) · Lindholm (1993–94) · Ikäläinen (1994–96) · Møller Nielsen (1996–99) · Muurinen (2000–05) · Heliskoski (2005) · Hodgson (2006–07) · Baxter (2008–10) · Huttunen (2010) · Kanerva (2011) · Paatelainen (2011–) Categories:- 1964 births
- Living people
- Finnish footballers
- Finland international footballers
- Finnish football managers
- Finnish expatriate footballers
- Finnish expatriates in Sweden
- Expatriate footballers in Sweden
- Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players
- IF Elfsborg players
- FC Honka players
- FinnPa players
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