Harri Ylönen

Harri Ylönen ( l ) in Jersey by KuPS Kuopio ( 2007)

Harri " Upi " Ylönen ( born December 21, 1971 in Kuopio ) is a Finnish former football player. The defender, who ran aground between 1995 and 2002 for the Finnish national team, played his career in his home country, Norway and Germany.

Career

Ylönen began his career at Kuopio PS, for whom he made ​​his debut in the First Division in 1991. With the team he played against relegation from the top division in the country. In the debut season still placed on the last non- relegation, the club rose from the Table at the end of the season 1992.

Ylönen remained in the top division and joined the League rival Haka. In the first season he played with his new club against relegation, the following year he was with the team as a table sixth in the secure midfield. In the season of 1995 surprised the club, with six points ahead of MyPa won the club for the first time in 18 years back the championship title. Due to its good performance in the season progressed, Ylönen also played in the national team. The success was followed by the crash, the defender rose with the club in the second division from. There he dominated the team competition and also won the Finnish National Cup. As a regular player - he played in the season after the climb all 27 season games - he was instrumental in that the club was on the right track and got promoted as the champion.

Meanwhile Ylönen had also made ​​a name across the borders. Before the Norwegian Erstligaspielzeit 1999 SK Brann obliged the defender. Right away he reached with key players of the team behind Rosenborg BK and Molde FK to third place and the final of the Norwegian National Cup. However, the final he lost to the champions Rosenborg BK. In the following season he reached the European Cup as runner-up behind Rosenborg BK, but the series champion had seven points ahead. After another year in Norway in 2002, he returned to Finland.

Ylönen joined again at the FC Haka. With the club he played for the first year to the European Cup places, in the 2003 he was with the team runner-up. In the 2004 he took the club to its third championship, as the second-placed AC Allianssi was distanced by eleven points at the side of Toni Lehtinen, Janne Salli and Mikko Vilmunen.

In spring 2005, Ylönen first completed a trial with TSV 1860 Munich, but was then piloted by Ralf Loose to Sportfreunde Siegen. By the end of the season he came in eight games in the Regionalliga Süd to use and thus helped to promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. Since he could not prevail, he played only a second league game as a substitute. Therefore, he returned in the winter back to Finland.

Ylönen played one season for his old club FC Haka. Then he returned to his hometown club Kuopio PS, with which he rose from the second division in 2007. There he acted over a longer period of time than playing assistant coach. With the 2009 season, he finished his playful activity at the club and instead focused on his work as an assistant coach. In 2010 he ran on in an official league game of the PK -37 and achieved in this encounter also a hit.