Mika Kottila

Mika Kottila
Personal information
Full name	Mika Kottila
Date of birth	22 September 1974 (age 49)
Place of birth	Vantaa, Finland
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1993	FinnPa
1994–1995	HJK
1996	RoPS
1996–1997	Hereford United
1997–1998	HJK
1999	Brann
2000–2001	Trelleborg
2002–2004	HJK
2005–2006	FC Lahti
2006–2009	MPS
International career
1998–2004	Finland
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mika "Hirvi" Kottila (born 22 September 1974) is a Finnish former professional footballer. He played as a forward and spent the vast majority of his career playing in Nordic countries.

Club career[edit]

Kottila was born in Vantaa, Finland. He joined RoPS in 1992. He had a spell on loan at Hereford United during the 1996–97 season. He made 13 league appearances, scoring 1 goal.

He then joined HJK Helsinki for the second of three spells, having previously played for the club during the 1994 season. He made 157 appearances and scored 56 goals for the club during his three spells. The top moment of his career came when he scored two goals in UEFA Champions League 1998.

He moved to Norway to play for SK Brann where he was in the 1999 season,^[1] and then Sweden to play for Trelleborgs FF. A third spell at HJK followed between 2002 and 2004. He also featured in the 2004 UEFA Champions League playing against the likes of Linfield and Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. in the qualifying rounds.

Between 2005 and 2006 he played for FC Lahti in the Finnish Premier Division.

International career[edit]

He was capped 31 times for Finland, scoring 6 goals between 1998 and 2004.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Nielsen, Atle (2008). Sportsklubben Brann: 100 år med tro, håp og kjærlighet (in Norwegian). Bergen: Schibsted. p. 252. ISBN 978-82-516-2658-3.

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[brann-1] Nielsen, Atle (2008). Sportsklubben Brann: 100 år med tro, håp og kjærlighet (in Norwegian). Bergen: Schibsted. p. 252. ISBN 978-82-516-2658-3.

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