Tykkimiehet FC

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Tykkimiehet FC (1054874)

Full name	Tykkimiehet Football Club
Nickname(s)	Tykärit, TFC
Founded	January 2006
League	Finland
Region	Päijät-Häme
Stadium	Vesivehmaan Highbury (Capacity 27,580)
Fan Club	Punamustat ("Red and Black", about 1900 members)
Manager	Simon Bunni
Captain	Joeli Odber-De-Baubeta
Youth Team
Name	Tykkipojat
Trainer	Artturi Härkönen
Captain	Olli Hongisto
League	De Beste
All-Time Leaders
League/Cup Appearances	Joeli Odber-De-Baubeta, 80 (124 total)
Total Appearances	Holger Robertsson, 151 (75 in league/cup)
Best player (All-time, fan vote, before season 36)	Charles Forjaz

Tykkimiehet FC is a Finnish Hattrick club. The club plays nowadays in Finnish League VI.604. The word "Tykkimiehet" is Finnish and means "The Gunners". Club's Youth Team is called Tykkipojat, straight translation is "The Cannon Boys", as Tykkimiehet and Gunners can also mean "Cannon Men".

Contents 1 Youth team 2 History 2.1 Season 28 2.2 Season 29 2.3 Season 30 2.4 Season 31 2.5 Season 32 2.6 Season 33 2.7 Season 34 2.8 Season 35 2.9 Season 36 2.10 Season 37 3 Famous Players 3.1 Hall of Fame Players 3.2 Non-HoF retired legends 3.3 Legends still playing in The Club 3.4 Legends playing elsewhere 4 Legendary Events 4.1 Tykkimiehet FC - ZC Kukkila 4.2 Jorvinpallo - Tykkimiehet FC 4.3 The All-Star Day 5 Stadium 6 See Also

Youth team

Tykkimiehet FC's Youth Team is called Tykkipojat, as said before. Youth team's coach is Artturi Härkönen. There are three youth coaches, they are called Jukka Varis, Aki Laaksonen and Juho Ylikorpi. Usually the team's captain is the goalkeeper Ilkka Neiglick. Tykkipojat played it's first season in a league called Slaya's Junior League. Then the team went abroad to a league called Donnykleuterschool. There Tykkipojat took the championship three times in as many seasons. After some different leagues, they joined to their current league called De Beste.

History

Season 28

Tykkimiehet FC was founded 12.1.2006, when there was season 28 ongoing in Finland. Tykkimiehet arrived to it's league, IX.175, after one game. Tykkimiehet finished sixth on it's first season.

Season 29

Though the team was only sixth in it's league last season, it promoted to eighth division to a league named VIII.1130. The team had improved a lot from it's starting season and finished third.

Season 30

On season 30 Tykkimiehet tried to promote to seventh division. After long battling against other teams, Tykkimiehet finished only second and failed to promote. Fans almost got bored to hanging in same league for so long, but the future seemed better...

Season 31

Finally on season 31 Tykärit managed to promote to seventh division after exciting matches.

Season 32

First, Tykkimiehet tried to just avoid the relegation and maybe reach bit more higher, but with a great surprise, Tykkimiehet won the championship and promoted immediately to sixth division. Many new players had bought and when the next season started, the team was ready to face the first big challenge in sixth division.

Season 33

The Club accomplished it's minimum objective and stayed clear out of the relegation. Tykkimiehet finished fifth place in a league called VI.604.

Season 34

Second season in VI.604 was harder than the first: there wasnt't a clearly weaker team and a bot team like last season. Still Tykkimiehet stayed in it's league and finished sixth.

Season 35

The Club finished sixth again, but the place in the league was bit clear already, because there were two bot teams. Tykkimiehet failed to climb up higher than sixth.

Season 36

Season 36 seemed easier at the start: there were two bot teams and only one team was clearly better. The Club's aim was to finish fifth, but sometimes even the third place was possible. But Tykkimiehet lost some important matches in the end and finished "only" fourth. The Cup performance (fifth round) was great, though. In the middle of the season the coach, Aiman Sye, who had been in the job since September 2007, retired and Simon Bunni took the control.

Season 37

In the first round, Tykkimiehet won one of it's main opponents, IF Pemar 2-0 away. It was a great start to the season, which the team tries to finish at least fourth, and third place will be very nice. Tykkimiehet made a record by being the leader after three rounds. Before that, Tykkimiehet was fourth after two rounds at best.

Famous Players

Information about players coming soon!

Hall of Fame Players

Tykkimiehet FC has an own Hall of Fame, where some retired TFC legends may come after their career. There are currently seven players in Hall of Fame, one of them being a former coach.

• Paavo Heiskanen

Heiskanen was the first player of Tykkimiehet that got promoted to the Hall of Fame. He started his career in Tykkimiehet and never went to another club. On first seasons of Tykkimiehet, Heiskanen was a vital link in the team's defence. He also made some great goals, usually with his head.

• Jori Pöntinen

Pöntinen retired and went to Hall of Fame a day after Paavo Heiskanen. Pöntinen also played as a defender, usually as a full-back. He scored lots of goals and even one hat-trick despite his position and was one of the fan's favourites. He played totally 40 matches.

• Petri Laru

Laru wasn't great player, but still almost the best of the best: Laru is known as a very "funny" person and did things like selling Hot-Dogs during the game, being in the line-up at the same time! Even opponent team's fans clapped, or laughed, to him when the line-up was announced before the game. Nowadays he doesn't play at all (Thank God!) but sells Hot-Dogs near the pitch before matches and at half-time.

• Ludovic Kondo

Kondo was the second coach of Tykkimiehet. He bought many solid players to positions where they were needed. He was also formidable tactician, but he still not managed to promote the team to the seventh division.

• Valter Zeba

Zeba was first foreign Hall of Fame -player. That Croatian superstriker scored 23 goals in 48 matches. Many of those goals were important in eighth and also seventh division. Fans think that Zeba was one of the most important players in season 31, when Tykkimiehet promoted to VII and it's history changed forever.

• Iikka Pikkarainen

Along with Laru, Pikkarainen's glorius matches are all friendlies. He was the first player of the Club who scored a Hat-Trick. This game was a friendly against ZC Kukkila, and this match is probably the legendariest match in TFC's history. To see why, check it out in Hattrick (80462466) or see below from this page. Pikkarainen has also scored one league goal.

• Henrik Fogelholt

Fogelholt was promoted to the Hall of Fame after he announced to end his career. He started his career in Tykkimiehet when the whole club was formed and ended it in May 2008. The Finnish wingback with Swedish descent also scored 21 goals and played 115. Even so he wasn't as legendary as Heiskanen, Pöntinen or Zeba and not as funny as Laru, Pikkarainen or Kissa, but he still is a honorable member of the Hall of Fame.

• Toni Kissa

The latest player promoted to Hall of Fame, Kissa, belongs to the same category as Laru and Pikkarainen as a legendary Friendly match player and humoristic attitude. Most important thing about him is that his surname Kissa means "Cat" in English. Mostly because of his name he was bought from Lamminpää Predators in September 2006 for 1000 euros. He played 42 matches, most of them friendlies, and he didn't score any league or cup goals.

Non-HoF retired legends

Some legends of The Club have been sold to another club and then retired, or retired in Tykkimiehet without entering to the Hall of Fame. They are not in Hall of Fame but still on hearts of the fans.

• Charles Forjaz

Forjaz was the first player who reached the excellent skill, in playmaking. He was a dominant player in TFC's midfield for many seasons. After those many unforgettable performances, he was sold because a new midfield star was arising - Jouke Reckers. Unfortunately, Forjaz's new team quitted Hattrick after some time. Nowadays, Forjaz plays for TFC's Senior Reserve team. He was selected to the best player of Tykkimiehet FC in fan vote before season 36.

• Miika Hannonen

Hannonen was the original goalkeeper of Tykkimiehet and kept that position for some time. Then he became a backup keeper. The first team goalkeepers came and went, but Hannonen kept his position as a backup. But this time also ended, when a new goalkeeper from Tykkipojat, Juho Tolpanniemi, was promoted to the seniors and Hannonen was sold. Then his team quitted Hattrick and like Forjaz, Hannonen came back to his most memorable team to play in Senior Reserves.

• Joonas Tupamäki

Tupamäki was one of the original players of Tykkimiehet and a tough member of the team's defence line. This line, Fogelholt-Tupamäki-Heiskanen-Pöntinen, was also compared with Arsenal's legendary defence line Winteburn-Adams-Bould-Dixon. Later, Tupamäki's skills just weren't good enough and he retired without entering the Hall of Fame like many others who have retired in TFC.

• Jaakko Sunden

Sunden is considered as the best Tykkimiehet FC youth pull ever. He was a top-class winger and midfielder as he was promoted to senior team as 19 years old. Couple of days later, 12th September 2006, he was sold with 396 000 euros, which was clearly the biggest transfer fee in Tykkimiehet on that time. But accidentally, after some seasons, his team retired and so did Sunden. It was a total disaster in TFC fan's opinions. Nowadays he plays in Tykkimiehet FC Reserve team and best professional TFC youth player is Olli-Pekka Ämmänkoski.

Legends still playing in The Club

Of course some of the greatest are legends when they are still living, i.e. playing still in Tykkimiehet.

• Joeli Odber-De-Baubeta

• Holger Robertsson

Holger Robertsson is a true legend, no Charles Forjaz or even Petri Laru can be compared with him. This Swedish striker was bought in the first days of Tykkimiehet for a huge 70 000 euro transfer fee (on those times some fans thought that he was very overpriced...) as 18 years old. Ludovic Kondo trained him to a midfielder, too. He became an important player, but some seasons later he lost his place in starting eleven. Still he managed to have some appearances in a season, and soon he was the first player to have 100 appearances in Tykkimiehet. In November 2008, he played his 150th match in league defeat against FC Perätila. It was an incredible achievement and somehow sharply half of his 150 matches were friendlies and another half league and cup matches!

• Ricky Ramos

• Jouke Reckers

• Teemu Rautapää

• Alessandro Wyssmann

Legends playing elsewhere

Some great players have been sold in spite of their reputation and praise of the fans.

• Sami Kauhanen

• Arvo Kojo

• Alex Evora

• Hector Denis

• Rãzvan Galos

• Vidas Mergiunas

• Marco Zanzi

Legendary Events

Tykkimiehet FC - ZC Kukkila

This friendly match is the favourite of many Tykkimiehet fans. There happened many legendary things: first, Tykkimiehet scored 7 beautiful goals. Then, Joeli Odber-De-Baubeta, who has played most games in TFC shirt, head-butted the opponent and was sent off. Remember, that Zinedine Zidane's head butt was about two months after that... Also, Iikka Pikkarainen scored three goals and a Hat-Trick, first time in The Club's history. Also Petri Laru almost played a clean sheet, but one player called Antonello Spinola made a mistake on 86th minute and so Laru just couldn't make a save. A month later Spinola was sold...

Jorvinpallo - Tykkimiehet FC

This game was played in the 12th round of season 32, TFC's only season in seventh division. Tykkimiehet fought hard to promote to the sixth division, but was 1-0 behind against Jorvinpallo, one of the promotion candidates, still in 70th minute. The team's coach Aiman Sye was frustated and went to the toilet and then to buy some beer near the stadium. When he came back, he saw that Jorvinpallo was going to make a kick-off. "What the hell is going on", Sye said, "did we equalise?" Assistant coach Paavo Heiskanen answered negatively. "What then?" Sye asked and almost gone crazy. Then he looked at the scoreboard and noticed that TFC's striker Rãzvan Galos, who also was the league's best goalscorer that season, had scored two goals in two minutes. Sye gone crazy and did some hilarious dancing moves. The game was won by Tykkimiehet and those three points maybe decided the promotion battle for Tykkimiehet.

The All-Star Day

In every season break, Tykkimiehet organises an event called The All-Star Day. It's usually in Satuday, week 15 but on last season break it was in week 16. In The All-Star Day, players of Tykkimiehet FC play some All-Stars matches like First Team against Second Team, Finnish players against Foreigners and so on. Later on the day and sometimes in Sunday, the TFC leadership announces the best players of Tykkimiehet in each category, such as best goalkeeper, most valuable player and best signing. The All-Star Day's events are always reported to Clubhouse (in Finnish).

Stadium

Tykkimiehet FC's Stadium is called Vesivehmaan Highbury. It means Vesivehmaa's Highbury, Vesivehmaa is the name of The Club's home village. Stadium's capacity is 27580. It was first 12000-seater, then 14000-seater for a long time and being present for couple of seasons after a large revonation.

See Also

• User:Jopetshow
• Tykkimiehet FC/Petri Laru
• Tykkimiehet FC/Joeli Baubeta
• The official home page of Tykkimiehet FC