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We have received some commitments from a couple of our youth that they are going to stick with our program. Being an amateur club, it's pretty common for there to be lots of turnover in the club - anyone who gets a sniff of some pay is off to take i...
Hello, allow me to introduce myself. I am Mohammad Abd Karim, 27 years old, and passionate about football. Growing up in the tiny sultanate of Brunei Darussalam, I have always enjoyed everything football. Sadly, from an early age, a hear...
A 27 year old local footballer sets out to coach in his home nation
Monday, June 12th, 2023 It has now become public how upset Titi is, with the Finnish Soccer Free Press identifying the spat. We have full on insurrection and an across the board poor morale. Funny, when we were winning games, everyone was...
Saturday, June 10th, 2023 Indeed ToTe/2022 were not as good as their parent club. Didn't stop us from playing well and dropping points at home. We rescued a draw in the 88th minute in what was a game where again we struggled to finish. &n...
Friday, June 9th, 2023. Like lambs to slaughter. 6-1. All six conceded in 46' It was a rout. An absolute humiliation and embarrassment. But at least the petty players got all the play time they wanted. You want to...
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 5 wins in a row. And a player mutiny. This group of volunteer players seem to think they are more effective at managing then their volunteer manager. Both Matias Juntenen and Titi are with abysmal morale and...
Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 It's been awhile since I've written, so quite a bit to catch up on! We had some wonderful weather for the match in Tampere against ACE. We put together a very strong opening and parlayed that into a 4-2 victory, th...
Saturday, May 27, 2023 It wasn't pretty, but we took a 1-0 home victory from STPS. We definitely should have shown a little more offensive prowess, especially off of 18 shots and 68% possession. But a win is a win is a win, and I was prou...
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 First off, we brought a new pair of youngsters into our U-20 program. Eelis Eklund, age 16, moves from our youth squad where he is a midfielder to the U20 team. He agreed to commit to 3 years with OPS. Jari...
Thursday, May 18th, 2023 I have made the decision to move Aapo Haanpaa, Armend Jakupi, and Luukas Manninen up to the Senior squad, bringing our team size to 26. We have 16 in on our U-20 squad. Our U-20s will take on KTU U-20s on this upc...
Monday, May 15th, 2023 Well sweet Mary, someone awoke the beasts and they let loose a flurry! I was anticipating we could get our mojo back, but playing a team equivalent to us in the table - especially with our present form - I wasn't anticipa...
May 12th, 2023 Well the wheels have completely come off at this point. We are losing to bottom feeders, which makes me think our path to become one is well established. A complete trash performance on finishing saw us lose the 2-1 to winl...
May 9th, 2023 Can't beat a top team and the referee in the same match. Clearly the league had no intention in us playing a competitive game as they sent Petri Tarkianen - some hack of a 4th division referee to give the match to MUSA today. &nbs...
Saturday, May 6th That was a dog of a match against KoIPS. There was really no reason we should have walked away with points in that game; we pulled out a 1-1 draw, but really it was a rescue more than anything else. As is typical, we had...
May 3rd, 2023 It was a very busy last couple of days! We can start by reviewing our match with TamU/2, a 1-0 victory that came with a lot of drama. We definitely had a different style than TamU/2 - we pride ourselves in controlling posses...
Sunday, April 30th, 2023 After our last U-20 game, I realized that there are a few players that are going to need a loan to get more regular playing time, as our U-20 team doesn't have a competition in which it plays in. Thankfully we have an a...
Thursday, April 27, 2023 After our U20's match I immediately approached both Kevin Ayina and Ville Bjorkland to thank them for playing the match without being members of the club. They both told me they had a lot of fun. I asked both to m...
Monday, April 24th, 2023 That was a really busy weekend in Oulu. Both our senior side and our U20 team had matches this week in town, so it was a full day on the pitch both Saturday and Sunday. On Friday we recognized Samuli Aalto and Art...
Friday, April 21, 2023 Well, I had my pre-match press conference with Benjamin Oksanen of the Oulu Soccer Gazette Wednesday morning. Benjamin's a fairly respectful journalist, so I appreciate his questions. In short, I wanted to make it c...
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 So with Matias Ojala's injury, I thought it would be wise to add a new keeper to the squad. Patrik Vatanen had trained with the club in the past, and had played a lot of youth football for the club. He had floate...
Saturday, April 15, 2023 No match this weekend, so catching up on some errands around town. Things are going to get a little frenetic once the league season starts. We'll be playing upwards of two matches a week, so training time and free...
Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 Well, there could not have been a better way to end the pre-season than the match we played against Tornion Pallo-47. I did not project that we would dominate the match to the extent that we did. I figured TP-4...
Saturday, April 8th, 2023 It has been a frustrating effort to try and recruit for some specific needs for this team. I never realized how tough it would be to get adults to join an amateur club. We’re in a big town, but we’ve got so many...
Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 Monday I spent with our assistant coach Jarmo Pulkkinen and our head of youth development Tommy Pennanen to talk about how the youth team is developing. Both wanted to talk about the progress Luukas Manninen has had s...
Sunday, April 2, 2023 Well that was a topsy-turvy weekend! First I was bummed to learn that Jussi Kangasniemi - who I interviewed for the scouting role - opted to take a role with a different 3rd division side, telling us it was all about the c...
Thursday, March 30, 2023 I chose to spend the night in Kokkola. The match finished up around 10:30, and with training being managed by Jarmo Pulkkinen our assistant manager back in Oulu in the morning, I thought it best to take some rest nearby...
Sunday, March 26, 2023 I am exhausted from the drive today, and what was a trash match that we didn’t deserve to draw. We made the journey up to Lulea, Sweden today for our matinee. Left Olou around 9 this morning, and though the sun was out, i...
Leading a Finnish Career in the 4th tier of the Finnish League System. Based on Oulu