Antero Kivelä

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FinlandFinland  Antero Kivelä Ice hockey player
Date of birth December 26, 1955
place of birth Pori , Finland
size 181 cm
Weight 81 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Career stations
1972-1989 Ässät Pori
1993-1994 JHT Kalajoki

Antero Kivelä (born December 26, 1955 in Pori ) is a former Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper and coach , who played for Ässät Pori in the SM-liiga during his active time from 1972 to 1994 . After his career as a professional athlete, he became a local politician.

Career

Antero Kivelä began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Ässät Pori , for whose professional team he was initially active from 1972 to 1975 in the SM-sarja and then from 1975 to 1989 in its follow-up competition, the SM-liiga . The goalkeeper's greatest success with Ässät Pori was winning the Finnish championship title in the 1977/78 season . He played a major role in winning the title and was awarded the Urpo Ylönen trophy as the best goalkeeper in the league . With the championship title Ässät qualified for the European Cup by Kivelä leading his team to third place in the 1978/79 season . In the SM-liiga, the national player and his team were runner-up three times within five years (1979, 1980 and 1984). In the 1984/85 season , the 1980 Olympian stood a total of six times as a loan player for Jokipojat in the second-rate I divisioona between the posts.

From 1992 to 1994 Kivelä was the head coach for the second division club JHT Kalajoki . In the 1993/94 season he also returned to the ice for one game before finally ending his career at the age of 38. Kivelä has been a member of the city ​​council of his hometown Pori for the left-wing alliance since 2005 . Kivelä is also the president of the women's football club Nice Futis Pori .

International

For Finland , Kivelä took part in the junior division exclusively in the U19 European Junior Championship in 1974 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 1978 and 1979 World Championships , as well as at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid .

Achievements and Awards

  • 1979 Finnish runner-up with Ässät Pori
  • 1980 Finnish runner-up with Ässät Pori
  • 1984 Finnish runner-up with Ässät Pori

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pori.vas.fi, Porin kaupunginvaltuuston jäsenet 2013-2016 ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pori.fi
  2. ↑ nicefutis.sporttisaitti.com: NiceFutis Info

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personal data
SURNAME Kivelä, Antero
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kivela, Antero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper and coach, as well as politicians
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Pori , Finland