Paul Arajuuri

Paul Arajuuri
Personnel
birthday	June 15, 1988
place of birth	Helsinki ,  Finland
size	193 cm
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
1993-1999	Halkian Alku
2000-2003	IF Sibbo-Vargarna
2004	FC Jokerit
2005-2006	Espoo FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2006	Espoo FC	16 (3)
2006	FC Honka Espoo	1 (0)
2007	Club 04	25 (0)
2008-2009	IFK Mariehamn	45 (3)
2010-2013	Kalmar FF	56 (3)
2014-2016	Lech poses	70 (5)
2017-2019	Brøndby IF	66 (3)
2019–	Paphos FC	4 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2008-2010	Finland U-21	12 (0)
2010–	Finland	42 (3)
1 Only league games are given. 2 As of November 2, 2019

Paulus Arajuuri (born June 15, 1988 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish football player .

Career

societies

Paulus Arajuuri played in numerous clubs in Finland in his youth. In his last year as a youth player he was active for FC Espoo , whose first team was playing in the third-class Kakkonen at that time . The following year, he joined city rivals FC Honka Espoo on, for which he in the Veikkausliiga - 2006 season celebrated the pro debut. Just one season later, Arajuuri was under contract with the second division club Klubi 04 , which serves the Finnish record champions HJK Helsinki as a reserve and junior team. From 2008 to 2009 he played for IFK Mariehamn from Åland . In two seasons he came to a total of 45 league games and scored three goals, two of them in the 4-2 home win over FC KTP Kotka in May 2008. In September 2009, Arajuuri signed a four-year contract with Kalmar FF , which will be valid from the 2010 season would have. In January 2014 he moved to the Polish first division club Lech Posen on a free transfer after the expiring contract in Kalmar was not extended. Arajuuri made his first appearance for the new club, which already had another Finn in the squad with Kasper Hämäläinen , in April 2014 against Jagiellonia Białystok . With Poznan, Arajuuri became Polish champions in the 2014/15 season. In January 2017 he moved to Brøndby IF in Denmark and won the cup there in 2018 . In the summer of 2019, he then moved to Paphos FC in Cyprus .

National team

Paulus Arajuuri played in twelve Finnish U-21 games between 2008 and 2010 . In January 2010, the central defender made his debut for the Finnish national soccer team in the game against South Korea that was played in Málaga , Spain . With the selection team Arajuuri took part in the Baltic Cup 2012 in Estonia; in the final he lost with this in the decisive penalty shootout against Latvia . He scored his first international goal in a 1-1 draw against Northern Ireland on October 11, 2015.

successes

• Polish champion : 2015
• Danish Cup Winner : 2018

Web links

• Paulus Arajuuri at the Finnish Football Association
• Paulus Arajuuri in the 90minut.pl database (Polish)
• Paulus Arajuuri in the soccerway.com database
• Paulus Arajuuri in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IFK Mariehamn 4: 2 (1: 2) KooTeePee Kotka. soccerway.com, accessed April 20, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Paulus Arajuuri siirtyy Kalmariin. (No longer available online.) Veikkausliiga.com, archived from the original on June 12, 2012 ; Retrieved April 20, 2014 (Finnish). 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.  
3. ↑ Paulus Arajuuri piłkarzem Lecha. lechpoznan.pl, accessed April 20, 2014 (Polish). 
4. ↑ Lech Poznań 6: 1 (3: 0) Jagiellonia. 90minut.pl, accessed April 20, 2014 (Polish). 
5. ↑ Paulus Arajuuri od stycznia w Brøndby. 90minut.pl, accessed December 21, 2016 (Polish). 
6. ↑ Balti turniiri esikoha võitis Läti. jalgpall.ee, accessed April 20, 2014 (Estonian).