Jorma Vaihela
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Jorma Johan Sigurd Vaihela | ||
Date of birth | 30 September 1925 | ||
Place of birth | Raahe, Finland | ||
Date of death | 9 February 2006 | (aged 80)||
Place of death | Kungälv, Sweden | ||
Position(s) | Inside forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
– | RU-38 | ? | (?) |
– | PoPa | ? | (?) |
– | TuTo | ? | (?) |
1954–1957[1] | IK Oddevold | 34 | (0) |
International career | |||
1947–1954 | Finland | 34 | (13) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jorma Johan Sigurd Vaihela (30 September 1925 – 9 February 2006) was a Finnish international footballer who played as an inside forward.
Career
Club career
Vaihela played club football in Finland for RU-38, PoPa and TuTo, and in Sweden for IK Oddevold.
International career
Vaihela 34 caps at international level between 1947 and 1954, scoring 13 goals.[2] Vaihela also participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics.[3]
Personal life
Vaihela's son Seppo Vaihela played international bandy for Sweden. He worked as the chairman of IFK Göteborg from 2007 to 2012[4] and before that as president for the Swedish Bandy Association.[5]
References
- ^ "Oddevold.se - Spelare år för år 1951-2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
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- ^ "Jorma Vaihela". Sports Reference. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- ^ Seppo Vaihela slutar som klubbdirektör, IFK Göteborg (in Swedish). Archived 22 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 77 March 2013
- ^ SVT: "Seppo Vaihela lamnar bandyforbundet", 20 feb 2006, retrieved 21 July 2017
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from May 2011
- 1925 births
- 2006 deaths
- Finnish footballers
- Finland international footballers
- Olympic footballers of Finland
- Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- IK Oddevold players
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
- Turun Toverit players
- RU-38 players
- Porin Palloilijat players
- Association footballers not categorized by position
- Finnish football biography stubs