Tiina Salmén

Tiina Salmén
Personal information
Full name Tiina Sofia Salmén[1]
Date of birth (1984-08-03) 3 August 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth Finland
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
HJK Helsinki
2006–2010 Amazon Grimstad
2011 Klepp IL 19 (1)
International career
2004–2011 Finland 77 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tiina Sofia Salmén (born 3 August 1984) is a Finnish former football midfielder, who last played for Klepp IL in Norway's Toppserien.[2] She previously played for HJK Helsinki in Finland's Naisten Liiga and Amazon Grimstad in the Toppserien.

As a member of the Finnish national team, she took part in the 2005 and 2009 European Championships.[3] In 2007, she was named Finnish Women's Player of the Year.[4]

After the 2011 Toppserien season, Salmén and compatriot Miia Niemi both left Klepp and retired from football.[5]

References

  1. ^ "2009 UEFA EUROPEAN WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH PRESS KIT" (PDF). UEFA. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  2. ^ Profile in Klepp's web
  3. ^ Statistics Archived 2012-04-03 at the Wayback Machine in the Football Association of Finland's web
  4. ^ Finland - Women Player of the Year Awards Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
  5. ^ Primstad, Espen (13 November 2011). "Niemi og Salmén legger opp" (in Norwegian). Klepp IL. Archived from the original on 22 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.


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