Jorma Vaihela
{{short description|Finnish footballer (1925-2006)}}
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|fullname = Jorma Johan Sigurd Vaihela
|birth_date = {{birth date|1925|9|30|df=y}}
|birth_place = Raahe, Finland
|death_date = {{death date and age|2006|2|9|1925|9|30|df=y}}
|death_place = Kungälv, Sweden
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|position = Inside forward
|years1 = 1946–1948
|clubs1 = TuTo
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|years2 = 1949
|clubs2 = PoPa
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|years3 = 1950–1951
|clubs3 = RU-38
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|years4 = 1952–1954
|clubs4 = TuTo
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|years5 = 1954–1957
|clubs5 = IK Oddevold
|caps5 = 34
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|nationalyears1 = 1947–1954
|nationalteam1 = Finland
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|nationalgoals1 = 13
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Jorma Johan Sigurd Vaihela (30 September 1925 – 9 February 2006) was a Finnish international footballer who played as an inside forward.
Club career
Born in Raahe, Vaihela played club football in Finland for TuTo, PoPa and RU-38,{{NFT player|pid=46392|accessdate=11 February 2022}} and in Sweden for IK Oddevold.{{cite web|url=http://www.proteamonline.se/storage/customers/309/archive/Spelare%20%C3%A5r%20f%C3%B6r%20%C3%A5r%201951-2007.pdf |title=Oddevold.se – Spelare år för år 1951–2007 |accessdate=20 May 2012 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504080139/http://www.proteamonline.se/storage/customers/309/archive/Spelare%20%C3%A5r%20f%C3%B6r%20%C3%A5r%201951-2007.pdf |archivedate= 4 May 2012 }} He started his career playing for Turun Toverit in TUL league for 2 seasons where he scored 6 goals. In Mestaruussarja he played 31 games and scored 7 goals. Between 1949 and 1953 he also played in second tier Suomensarja where he scored 30 goals in 5 seasons.{{Cite book |last=Kasila |first=Markku |title=Pelimiehet |last2=Vuorinen |first2=Juha |publisher=Suomen Urheilumuseosäätiö |isbn=978-952-99075-9-5 |page=357}}
International career
Vaihela earned 34 caps at international level between 1947 and 1954, scoring 13 goals.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/fin-recintlp.html|title=Finland – International Player Records|website=RSSSF|accessdate=7 November 2009}} Vaihela also participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25019 |title=Jorma Vaihela |work=Olympedia |access-date=9 November 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/jorma-vaihela-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417182856/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/jorma-vaihela-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|title=Jorma Vaihela|accessdate=7 November 2009|publisher=Sports Reference}}
Personal life
Vaihela's son Seppo played international bandy for Sweden, and worked as the chairman of IFK Göteborg from 2007 to 2012,[http://www.ifkgoteborg.se/Nyheter/2012/November/Seppo-Vaihela-slutar-som-klubbdirektor/ Seppo Vaihela slutar som klubbdirektör, IFK Göteborg (in Swedish).] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222211322/http://www.ifkgoteborg.se/Nyheter/2012/November/Seppo-Vaihela-slutar-som-klubbdirektor/ |date=22 February 2014 }} Retrieved 77 March 2013 and before that as president for the Swedish Bandy Association.[https://www.svt.se/sport/artikel/seppo-vaihela-lamnar-bandyforbundet/ Sveriges television: "Seppo Vaihela lamnar bandyforbundet", 20 February 2006], retrieved 21 July 2017
References
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{{Finland football squad 1952 Summer Olympics}}
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Category:Finnish men's footballers
Category:Finland men's international footballers
Category:Olympic footballers for Finland
Category:Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Category:Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Category:Turun Toverit players
Category:Rosenlewin Urheilijat-38 players
Category:Porin Palloilijat players
Category:Men's association football inside forwards
Category:Finnish expatriate men's footballers
Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
Category:Sportspeople from Raahe
Category:Footballers from North Ostrobothnia
Category:20th-century Finnish sportsmen
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