Jari Ilola

Jari Ilola (* November 24, 1978 in Oulu) is a Finnish football players. The midfielder, who came in the Finnish national team between 1998 and 2007 used, won the championship both in Finland and in Sweden.

Career

Start your career in Finland

Ilola debuted in August 1995 for RoPS in the First Division. In the following season he established himself as a regular player and reached the final, with the team of the Finnish League Cup, but which ended with a 2:3 defeat to HJK.

In 1998 Ilola within the first Finnish League to Helsinki at HJK. With the club he reached the group stage of the UEFA Champions League and arrived there in the games against 1 FC Kaiserslautern, Benfica and PSV Eindhoven are used. In the same year he won his first two titles, as in the League Cup final FF Jaro and in the cup final PK -35 Helsinki were beaten. He also played in the Finnish national team and made ​​his debut on 10 October of the year in the 0-1 defeat against the Northern Irish national team in Belfast in the National Jersey.

After Ilola was in 2000 due to injury hardly been used, it has established itself under coach Jyrki Heliskoski in the following season as a regular player in the middle of HJK. In the 2002 season he scored three goals in 16 games and thus helped the managed by Englishman Keith Armstrong team around players like Alexei Eremenko, Antti Heinola and Mika Kottila to winning the Finnish Championship title. By winning the title, he took leave from Finland.

Moving to Sweden

Ilola signed a contract with IF Elfsborg. At first he was at the club from Borås to supplement players and came mainly as a substitute for use. In the season of 2006 he was able to establish itself as a regular player and contributed in 20 games of the season to win the Lennart Johansson - Cup as a Swedish national champion at. In the following season he was part of the permanent staff, before he injured his knee in the summer and amongst the qualifiers for the Champions League against Linfield FC missed. Towards the end of the season he returned to his recovery back into the starting line- back, but had to again in April 2008 to undergo an operation on his knee and fell the rest of the season out. In the following year and a half he had a total of four operations on his two knees undergo, so it turned out in the long term and the short time aground in the reserve team.