Janne Tähkä, who retired eighteen years ago, was a phenomenon of his time and is still Finland’s best-known floorball player. What made the icon of the sport who developed air curling such a brilliant athlete and how good was he in reality?
WHEN I turned 12, I got a season ticket for the OLS floorball league team as a birthday present. I circled two matches from the match schedule: OLS against Josba, in October and February.
Why? Because Janne Tähkä played in Josba. I knew that the 32-year-old Tähkä wasn’t the best player in the series, but he was Janne Tähkä, the maestro, the airman, the genius.