Nooa Laine
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 22 November 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Jyväskylä, Finland | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | SJK | ||
Number | 23 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2018 | JJK Jyväskylä | 15 | (1) |
2019–2020 | Klubi 04 | 23 | (4) |
2021- | SJK | 19 | (1) |
2021- | SJK Akatemia | 6 | (1) |
National team‡ | |||
2018 | Finland U-17 | 4 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:27, 29 November 2021 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14:27, 20 December 2021 (UTC) |
Nooa Laine (born 22 November 2002) is a Finnish-Malaysian professional footballer plays as midfielder for Finnish Veikkausliiga club SJK.[1][2]
Early life[]
Laine was born in Jyväskylä, Finland, to a Finnish mother and Malaysian father.[3] As a result, he holds dual citizenship of Finland and Malaysia.[4] His father is from Batu Laut, Selangor, Malaysia.[5] Laine started training when he was six with a summer team in the municipality of Jyväskylä.[5]
Club career[]
Nooa Laine began his career at JJK Jyväskylä in 2018, making 15 league appearance and scored 1 goal. In April 2019, he joined Klubi 04, the reserve team of HJK, making 23 league appearances and scoring 4 goals.[6] Laine joined the current club first division side SJK in January 2021, cited the good facility is what attracting him to the club.[7] He was chosen as the man of the match for the first time against IFK Mariehamn.[8]
References[]
- ^ "Nooa Laine". SJK (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ Nooa Laine at WorldFootball.net
- ^ "SJK kiinnitti poikamaajoukkuepelaajat – Kuivila lainalle AC Ouluun". sjk.fi. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ Larsen, Mette (25 January 2021). "Finnish-Malaysian Nooa Laine moves up the football tier in Finland". Scandasia. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ a b "'My dad told me to play football rather than ice hockey' - The remarkable story of Finnish-Malaysian wonderkid Nooa Laine | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ "JJK Jyväskylä – Nooa Laine siirtyy HJK:hon" (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ "SJK kiinnitti poikamaajoukkuepelaajia - Nooa Laine ja Oliver Günes sopimuksiin". www.veikkausliiga.com (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ "Nooa Laine iski debyyttimaalin SJK:n kotivoitossa". SJK (in Finnish). 2021-06-30. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
External links[]
- Nooa Laine at Soccerway
- 2002 births
- Living people
- Finnish footballers
- Veikkausliiga players
- Kakkonen players
- Klubi 04 players
- Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho players
- Association football midfielders
- Finnish people of Asian descent
- Malaysian people of European descent
- Finnish football midfielder stubs