Roope Riski
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 16 August 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Askainen, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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SC Paderborn 07 | ||
| Number | 33 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| MaPS | |||
| TPS | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2011 | TPS | 18 | (12) |
| 2009–2010 | → ÅIFK (loan) | 14 | (12) |
| 2010 | → FC Viikingit (loan) | 6 | (5) |
| 2011–2014 | Cesena | 1 | (0) |
| 2011 | → TPS Turku (loan) | 11 | (4) |
| 2012 | → Hønefoss BK (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2012–2014 | → TPS (loan) | 35 | (8) |
| 2014–2015 | Hønefoss | 23 | (12) |
| 2015–2016 | Haugesund | 10 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | → SJK (loan) | 13 | (8) |
| 2016– | SJK | 33 | (17) |
| 2017– | → SC Paderborn (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2010–2012 | Finland U21 | 11 | (6) |
| 2015– | Finland | 4 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10 January 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 February 2016 |
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Roope Riski (born 16 August 1991) is a Finnish footballer currently playing for German 3. Liga club SC Paderborn on loan from SJK Seinäjoki.
He is known as a clinical, well positioned forward who can get into the right place at the right time. In the middle of the 2010 season, Riski was selected to the opening squad for the first time of his career. Since then he has enjoyed a phenomenal season, starting 12 games and scoring 11 goals. He has the best game/goal ratio in the Veikkausliiga. He has often been compared to Bayer Leverkusen forward Javier Hernández.
On 22 September 2010, Riski scored a hat-trick against AC Oulu. By doing this, he became the first ever player in Finland to score a hat-trick in all the highest three levels of Finnish football system during one season.
From 27 January 2011 he is an official Cesena player. He made his Serie A debut on 19 March 2011 against Lazio on Stadio Olimpico (1−0 away loss) as a 69th-minute substitute for Fabio Caserta, he has had loan spell in Finland for TPS Turku in 2012 and Hønefoss BK in Norway. In August 2012, Riski joined English side Derby County on trial ahead of their pre-season against Chesterfield, where he started in a 3–1 loss, he scored in a reserve friendly against Matlock Town.
On 8 February 2016, SJK announced the signing of Riski on a two-year contract. On 10 January 2017 he was loaned to SC Paderborn.
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