Kasper Hämäläinen
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| Full name | Kasper Woldemar Hämäläinen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 8 August 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Turku, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Legia Warsaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2009 | TPS | 97 | (12) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Djurgården | 90 | (8) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Lech Poznań | 101 | (33) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016– | Legia Warsaw | 26 | (7) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002–2003 | Finland U17 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Finland U21 | 16 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008– | Finland | 52 | (9) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 December 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1 June 2016 |
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Kasper Woldemar Hämäläinen (born 8 August 1986) is a Finnish professional football attacking midfielder who plays for Legia Warsaw and represents Finland national team. Hämäläinen was born in Turku, Finland where he started his senior career in TPS before moving to Djurgården.
Born in Turku, he started his career in his hometown club TPS. In June 2008, Portuguese Primeira Liga club C.D. Nacional was keen to sign him, but he was said to be too expensive. He has visited Italian clubs Roma, Lazio, Udinese and Siena. NEC has also shown interest. After the 2008 season, he was near a move to an unnamed Italian club but he chose to stay in Turku to secure play time in the first team.
In December 2009, it was announced that Swedish club Djurgården had acquired him. "Kasper" as his shirt says became a star in the Djurgården-shirt and started all the 30 league games in Allsvenskan during both the 2010 and 2011 season. During his two first season he played as a central midfielder besides his fellow country man Daniel Sjölund. In the 2012 pre-season Djurgården manager Magnus Pehrsson tried Hämäläinen in a more offensive role as a trequartista. Hämäläinen did it so well that the move became permanent.
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