Lassi Hurskainen

Lassi Hurskainen
Personal information
Full name Lassi Elias Hurskainen
Date of birth (1987-04-08) 8 April 1987
Place of birth Joensuu, Finland
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
Töölön Taisto
Number 1
Youth career
1995–2000 Joensuu Ratanat
2001–2002 Joensuun Pallo
2003–2005 Jippo Juniors
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006 SC Riverball 24 (0)
2007 JIPPO 19 (0)
2008–2012 SC Riverball 38 (1)
2008–2012 UNC Asheville 74 (0)
2013–2014 JIPPO 30 (0)
2014–2015 HIFK 16 (0)
2015– Töölön Taisto

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Lassi Elias Hurskainen (born 8 April 1987) is a Finnish footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for UNC Asheville Men's Soccer before graduating from UNC Asheville in Fall of 2011.

After moving back to Finland, Hurskainen played for JIPPO in Joensuu during 2013-2014. In 2014 Hurskainen moved to Helsinki and joined HIFK Fotboll (Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna i Helsingfors), a legendary club founded in 1897. The football section was established in 1907, the same year that the Football Association of Finland was founded. During the season 2014 the team won the Finnish Football League First Division and was promoted into the highest tier of Finnish football, Veikkausliiga. At the same time Hurskainen decided to focus more on football trick shot videos that he had started to produce already during his stay in UNC Asheville. Hurskainen still plays football as a goalkeeper for Töölön Taisto,[1] a club playing in a Finnish Football League Third Division.

Personal life

Hurskainen grew up in Joensuu, Finland and attended the Joensuun Lyseon Lukio (Upper seconnary school). In 2007, Hurskainen served in the Finnish Defense Forces.

YouTube Prominence

On 14 February 2011, Hurskainen had with the help of two friends from UNC Asheville created a football trick shot video inspired by various other sports trick shot videos and uploaded it to YouTube. The video's view count grew to an upwards of 3 million over the course of the next couple weeks and months. The video and subsequent videos were featured on ESPN, Good Morning America, and various global local news channels respectively.[2]

Hurskainen has continued producing football trick shot videos after moving back to Finland. He also worked as a producer for a Finnish Sports tv program Elixir[3] hosting the show for over two years (2013-2015). His own YouTube channel has over 30.000 subscribers and with less than 70 videos he has reached over 11 million viewers. His TOP 3 most viewed videos have been:

  1. Lassi Hurskainen Goalkeeper Tricks,[4] over 4,100,000 views
  2. Lassi Hurskainen Angry Birds,[5] over 3,500,000 views
  3. World Record Football Punch | Robert Helenius vs. Lassi Hurskainen,[6] over 3,000,000 views

In 2016 Hurskainen co-founded a new company called Trick&Treat focusing on social videos. Its first video was a state-of-the-art production, an epic battle between Football and Ping Pong: FOOTPONG | Pongfinity vs. Lassi Hurskainen[7]

Honours and awards

Individual

Stats

UNCA Career[19]

Class Year GP Min GA GAA Saves Shutouts
Fr. 2008–09 19 1904 24 1.20 77 3
So. 2009–10 18 1622 29 1.61 108 2
Jr. 2010–11 18 1664 31 1.68 96 3
Sr. 2011–12 19 1797 34 1.70 127 3
Career 2008–12 74 6888 118 1.54 408 11

UNCA Year Overviews[20]

References

External links

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