Mikko Kuningas

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Mikko Kuningas
Mikko Kuningas.jpg
Mikko Kuningas (2017)
Personnel
birthday July 30, 1997
place of birth Luumäki ,  Finland
size 181 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
2006-2009 Luuma Pojissa
2010-2014 PEPO Lappeenranta
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2013-2014 PEPO Lappeenranta 21 (7)
2015-2018 FC Lahti 62 (5)
2015-2016 → FC Lahti Akademia (loan) 12 (3)
2018-2019 Inter Turku 52 (2)
2020– FC Lahti 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2015 Finland U18 8 (1)
2015 Finland U19 3 (0)
2017 Finland U21 5 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 13, 2020

2 As of September 7, 2019

Mikko Kuningas (born July 30, 1997 in Luumäki ) is a Finnish football player who has been under contract with the first division club FC Lahti since February 2020 . The midfielder is also a former Finnish junior international.

Club career

FC Lahti

Kuningas switched to the youth work of PEPO Lappeenranta in 2010 , having previously played in the youth of the local club Luumuchten Pojissa . In 2014, at the age of 16, he was promoted to the first team, which played in the third-rate Kakkonen . After making a good impression at PEPO in the 2014 season and being the team's top scorer with seven goals in 21 games, the first division club FC Lahti signed the midfielder in January 2015. Before that, there was also a transfer to Myllykosken Pallo -47 , which could not be realized due to financial difficulties of the association. Kuningas started the season in the reserve team in the third class Kakkonen. There he met twice in the first nine games and was then pulled up to the first team. On July 19 (19th matchday) he made his debut in the Veikkausliiga in a 3-1 home win against the Tampereen Ilves and also netted in this game. In the 2015 season he made ten appearances in the first team, in which he scored one goal and prepared two. Due to his rapid ascent, Kuningas was seen as a promising talent in his homeland and aroused hopes of being able to follow in the footsteps of the great Jari Litmanen .

In the next season of 2016 , he advanced to the starting line-up and won the Liigacup with FC Lahti . In the summer of 2016, the Brazilian club Fluminense Rio de Janeiro , a cooperation club of FC Lahti, became aware of Kuningas. In Brazil, he impressed those responsible during a trial training session and the transfer was already reported by Lahtis on their website as fixed, but ultimately failed because the midfielder would not have been granted a game permit until January 2017. Flu then lost interest in Kuningas, which ultimately remained in Finland. In 25 league games he scored two goals and prepared two more goals. In the next season of 2017, he retained the status of the regular player and was used in 27 league games in which he again scored twice. The long-awaited breakthrough to the top player in the qualitatively weak Veikkausliiga was not achieved by Kuningas this season either. In the Finnish media, his inconsistency was particularly criticized. After three seasons at FC Lahti, he left the club at the end of 2017 after his contract expired on a free transfer.

Kuningas returned to FC Lahti on February 27, 2020.

Inter Turku

For the 2018 season he joined league rivals Inter Turku . He made his competitive debut on January 19 in a 3-0 home win in the Suomen Cup against second division club Ekenäs IF and made his first goal in this. On May 12, he scored the winning goal in the final of this competition against HJK Helsinki in the 83rd minute, 12 minutes after being substituted on, and gave his new club their first title in nine years. In the league, he met two weeks later in a 3-3 draw against Rovaniemi PS after a free kick for the first time. In 28 league games he collected two goals and six assists this season. After ending the following season 2019 without scoring in 24 missions, he left the club on December 31, 2019 after his contract expired.

National team

In June 2015 he took part in the U-18 Baltic Cup with the Finnish U-18 national team. Later he also played for the U19 and U21 .

successes

FC Lahti

Inter Turku

Trivia

Kuningas means king in Finnish, which brought him comparisons with the player known as Kuningas , especially in Lahti , the hometown of the legendary Jari Litmanen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mikko Kuningas FC Lahteen - “Ehkä toimittajat saavat nimestä jotain irti” In: MTV Uutiset from June 6, 2015 (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  2. ↑ a b c d Mikko Kuningas - Luumuchten kuningas In: FC Lahti from February 18, 2017 (accessed on September 7, 2019)
  3. ↑ a b Mikko Kuningas - performance data 2015 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on September 7, 2019)
  4. ↑ Kuningas FC Lahden sankarina - “Olimme parempia” In: Veikkausliiga from July 19, 2015 (accessed on September 7, 2019)
  5. ↑ Valmentajalegenda Jari Litmasesta ja Mikko Kuninkaasta: "Eivät hae kuningassyöttöjä" In: Etelä-Suomen Sanomat of July 20, 2015 (accessed on September 7, 2019)
  6. ↑ FC Lahti voitti Liigacupin pilkkukisan jälkeen In: Yleisradio from March 19, 2016 (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  7. ↑ Mikko Kuningas Fluminensen mukaan In: FC Lahti from May 12, 2016 (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  8. ↑ Mikko Kuningas - performance data 2016 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  9. ↑ Mikko Kuningas - performance data 2017 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  10. ↑ Cup mestaruuden Interille ratkaissut Mikko Kuningas palaa Lahteen - “Tavoitteenani on lopullinen läpimurto” In: Yleisradio on February 27, 2020 (accessed on March 13, 2020)
  11. ↑ Mikko Kuningas siirtyi FC Interiin In: Etelä-Suomen Sanomat from November 3, 2017 (accessed September 8, 2019)
  12. ↑ FC Inter slog Ekenäs IF i första cupmatchen i fotboll In: Yleisradio from January 19, 2018 (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  13. ↑ Kapteeni Furuholm Näpäytti arvostelijoita: “Meillä on pytty, kiitos” In: Yleisradio from May 12, 2018 (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  14. ↑ Inter-RoPS päättyi tasapeliin 3-3 In: Turun Sanomat from May 26, 2018 (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  15. ↑ Mikko Kuningas - performance data 2018 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  16. ↑ Mikko Kuningas - performance data 2019 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on February 3, 2020)
  17. ↑ Markus Koistinen laittoi nimensä PEPOn sopimuspaperiin - “Hienoa, että viime kausina joukkueelle tärkeä oman kaupungin pelaaja jatkaa ryhmässä” In: Esaimaa of January 12, 2020 (accessed on February 3, 2020)
  18. ↑ U18-maajoukkue nimetty Baltic Cupiin In: Kymppipaikka from June 14, 2015 (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  19. ↑ Mikko Kuningas - international match career In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  20. ↑ Arvio: Jari Litmanen on Kuningas - Näyttävä elämäkerta paljastaa ”lasinilkan” salaisuuden In: Suomen Kuvalehti from September 19, 2015 (accessed on September 7, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Kuningas, Mikko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Luumäki , Finland