Johan Alho

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|birth_place = Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland

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Johan ″Jonne″ Aksel Alho (9 February 1907 – 14 September 1982{{cite web|url=https://nakoislehti.hs.fi/96a33f9a-709c-4123-8b32-baaed4ef6a9d/12?q=|title= Kuolleita : Työnjohtaja Jonne Alho|work=Helsingin Sanomat|date=21 September 1982|page=12|accessdate=21 May 2018}}) was a Finnish footballer and a football referee.

Football

= Player career =

Alho started his career in the Helsinki working-class side Töölön Vesa, winning the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation's (TUL) Championship in 1930. At the time, the football in Finland was split in two due to the 1918 Finnish Civil War. In 1931, Alho was a member of the TUL football team participating the Workers' Summer Olympiad in Vienna.{{cite book | last= Lahtinen | first= Esko S. | date= 2006 | title= Painimatolta pallokentille : Töölön Vesa 1906–2006 | location= Helsinki | publisher= Töölön Vesa | pages= 46, 56 | isbn= 952-91930-2-5 | url= http://www.toolonvesa.fi/historia/#materiaalia}}

In the fall of 1931, three Vesa players, Alho, Valdemar Virtanen and Kurt Weckström, switched to the bourgeois HJK Helsinki. Between 1931 and 1936, Alho played six seasons for HJK in the Finnish top tier Mestaruussarja.{{cite book | last1= Vuorinen | first1= Juha | last2= Kasila | first2= Markku | date= 2007 | title= Pelimiehet : Suomen jalkapallon pelaajatilastot 1930–2006 | location= Helsinki | publisher= The Sports Museum of Finland | page= 20 | isbn= 978-952-99075-9-5}}

= As a referee =

After his playing career, Alho was a FIFA international referee in 1941–1956 and 1958–1961. He officiated 11 internationals including the first round match between Sweden and Norway at the 1952 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_referee.php?id=61|title= Football Referee : Johan Alho|work=European National Football Teams 1872–2017 Database|accessdate=21 May 2018}} In 1959, Alho refereed Finnish Cup final.

Other sports

Alho also played bandy for Töölön Vesa, winning the TUL Championship in 1929. As a bandy referee, he officiated the match between Norway and Sweden at the 1952 Winter Olympics where bandy was held as a demonstration sport.

References

Category:1907 births

Category:1982 deaths

Category:Footballers from Helsinki

Category:Men's association football defenders

Category:Finnish men's footballers

Category:Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players

Category:Mestaruussarja players

Category:Finnish football referees

Category:Olympic football referees

Category:Finnish bandy players

Category:20th-century Finnish sportsmen