Tomi Maanoja
Tomi Maanoja ( born September 12, 1986 in Espoo ) is a Finnish football players. The goalkeeper made his debut in 2009 in the Finnish national team.
Career
Maanoja began playing football at Vantaan Jalkapalloseura. From well-known for his youth club, he moved to AC Allianssi, for which he was sitting as a spare man behind Henri Sillanpää mainly on the bench. Nevertheless In the 2005 he came to two appearances in the First Division. At the end of the season he moved within the league for the team FC Honka. Again, in his first year mainly substitute, he reached the fourth place in the table with the club at the side of Roni Porokara, Hermanni Vuorinen and Hannu cartridges. In the following season he spent with the club in the front area and reached the League Cup final. Against champions Tampere United, it was after the end of the extension 3-3 draw, a penalty shoot attracted he and the team to Janne Saarinen, Nicholas Otaru, Ville Jalasto and Tuomo Turunen the short straw. However, they qualified for the UEFA Cup in 2008/09.
In the summer of 2008 Maanoja moved abroad and signed a contract with the Swedish tradition AIK. There he delivered himself after the departure of Daniel Örlund, who went on loan to Norway, with Nicklas Bergh a duel for the starting place between the posts. After he had to sit on the substitutes ' bench at first, he was on 16 August of the year in the 1-1 draw against GIF Sundsvall first time in Allsvenskan on the field. Established as a regular player, he came to the end of the 2008 in a total of twelve games available for use. Consequently, he moved into the circle of the national team. At the beginning of 2009, national coach Stuart Baxter put him in the 1:5 defeat against Japan for the first time.
In a preparation game for season 2009 against Assyriska Föreningen to Maanoja end of February 2009 suffered a complicated fracture, so it turned to the end and therefore also missed the U-21 European Championship in the summer of the year. Therefore, he was returning from Örlund inherited as a goalkeeper, and was at best morally for winning the double of league title and National Cup at. After Örlund had left again in late 2009 the club was promoted again to the root Maanoja force at AIK. Before the kick-off to the next season he was in the game for the Supercupen in March 2010 for the first title of the year by staying with a goal by Antônio Flávio 's 1-0 win over IFK Gothenburg clean sheets. However, in the rest of the season, he acted partly unhappy, so this guess in danger of relegation club Croatian goalkeeper Ivan Turina as the new number one took under contract in the summer. After unsuccessful tryouts in the Netherlands, he returned to Sweden, but was now slipped for the third goalkeeper of the club behind Stamatopoulos Kyriakos.
In January 2011 Maanoja AIK left and returned to Finland to hire again at FC Honka.