Veikkausliiga: Toni Korkeakunnas knows how Teemu Pukki has changed

On Easy to smile when you get on your team Teemu Pukin. HJK’s head coach Toni Highlands Knows that you can’t get better confirmation. Not especially after last season.

Highlands if someone is a suitable coach to help Santa to move from Minnesota and the world’s different series to HJK and the Veikkausliiga. For the first time in the late 2000s, the duo worked together on the Finnish Under-19 national team.

Later, the College did a long day work on the A-team coaching team. There, Santa became particularly familiar with. The College knows to get a player in Puk, who will help bring the entire HJK team together.

“I already remember Teemu Aura from the under-19 national team. It’s so positive. We had a lot of players together, but Teemu was in the middle of everyone. He doesn’t make much noise himself, but everyone wants to be “Temen” friends and be close to him. He is a unifying force, ”the High Communications describes.

The College says that in many ways Santa has not changed since its young days. He still does not make himself a number, but attracts others. Still, the essence and the man show the years spent in the world.

“I knew the motivation what Teemu was coming here. I was extremely happy that he came to HJK. ”

When I was younger, Santa was a pure -blooded scorer. Nowadays, the High Communications believes, Santa is a much more interdimensional attack weapon.

This is probably a joy to HJK in many ways, because unlike the Huuhkajat or many other Santa club teams, HJK dominates most of the games it plays. In HJK, an attacker cannot live against counterattacks.

“He is physically different from that of a younger person. Speed ​​is still a weapon, but nowadays he also arranges places for others. Teemu is a versatile player and must be more of a threat to his back last year. More dynamic. We need to create a better scales of paint. He makes the surrounding players better by taking initiatives and being a threat. ”

Itself The position of the coach of the High Committee is not the most flattering new season. The criticism of the supporter standard went as last season progressed when HJK’s game stabbed and the course did not correct.

The College assures that the coaching career of about a quarter of a century has been hardened to such an extent that the criticism of the media or supporters does not fade in any way. There has been enough scar tissue to keep the concentration in the development of HJK.

The coach also gets a familiar coach Miika Nuutinen. Nuutinen, who returns from TPS to HJK, is an important helper for the High Committee. Last season he inherited the rips of the previous coaching Ferran Sibilan after kicks.

“Praise or barking, they don’t affect my work. Now, for the first time, I’m at HJK in a situation where I can influence the coaching team, the team and how we play from the start. It is not that simple to come to the team in the middle of the season, ”Korkeakunnas points out.

“The pressures come from myself. Of course I know last year didn’t go as it should. No one has to come to tell it. ”

HJK coach is almost invariably expected to champion, Cup profit and Euro success. Is the College really as immune to pressure as it claims?

“If I had – or got – at this place at a younger one, I would definitely think differently. I think that I am privileged when I have been able to do this task. I’m not the most important protagonist here, but the players. I tell them I’m at work for them, not the other way around. ”

Incipient The season is important to HJK. The club wants to be a champion, but KuPS and Ilves are also strengthened.

Due to the euro season until December, HJK kept his winter vacation relatively late. The College praises the club leadership for the organization of a two-week Turkish camp.

The coach praises that the camp was great. Both the team spirit and the entry of gaming things leaped forward.

“It’s a really good feeling about this gang and coaching team.”

“We have made big strategic changes to our everyday life. We put the boys in a pretty tough camp. There are exercises where we can return during the season when sometimes it feels difficult and tired. It is the feeling that everyone is fully involved. Noses pointing in the same direction. ”