Lassi Lappalainen
Lassi Lappalainen (born 24 August 1998) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Canadian club Montreal Impact[1] on loan from Italian club Bologna.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lassi Lappalainen | ||
| Date of birth | 24 August 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Espoo, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position(s) | Winger | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Montreal Impact | ||
| Number | 21 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2010 | Espoon Palloseura | ||
| 2011–2015 | HJK | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2019 | HJK | 30 | (3) |
| 2015–2016 | → Klubi 04 | 21 | (10) |
| 2017–2018 | → RoPS (loan) | 39 | (12) |
| 2019– | Bologna | 0 | (0) |
| 2019– | → Montreal Impact (loan) | 12 | (5) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2013–2014 | Finland U16 | 5 | (1) |
| 2014 | Finland U17 | 7 | (0) |
| 2016 | Finland U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Finland U19 | 6 | (5) |
| 2017– | Finland U21 | 7 | (3) |
| 2019– | Finland | 7 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 08:37, 23 June 2020 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19:09, 9 October 2019 (UTC) | |||
Club career
Early career
Born in Espoo in 1998,[2] Lappalainen started his football career with Espoon palloseura (EPS)[3] and later moved to HJK youth team. Lappalainen played in Klubi 04, the reserve team of HJK.
HJK
In 2016, Lappalainen was called up for HJK's first team. On 2 April 2016, he made his Veikkausliiga debut against IFK Mariehamn at Sonera Stadium, being substituted on by coach Mika Lehkosuo in place of Nnamdi Oduamadi in the 90th minute.[4]
On 21 July 2017, Lappalainen was loaned to RoPS for remainder of the Veikkausliiga season.[5] Two days later, he scored his first league goal for RoPS just five minutes into his debut after coming on as a substitute.[6]
Bologna
On 19 July 2019, Lappalainen signed to Italian Serie A club Bologna. HJK Helsinki stated it received "significant compensation" and that economically, the transfer was in the "top 7 of HJK's club history".[7][8]
Montreal
On 25 July 2019, it was announced that Lappalainen was loaned to Major League Soccer (MLS) club Montreal Impact for the remainder of the 2019 season using Targeted Allocation Money. The Impact have options to extend the loan until 30 June 2020, as well as until 31 December 2020.[9] On 27 July 2019, he contributed two goals to Montreal Impact's 4–0 victory over the first-place Philadelphia Union on his Major League Soccer debut.[10]
International career
Lappalainen made his debut for the Finland national football team on 8 January 2019 in a friendly against Sweden, as a starter.[11]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 19 August 2019[1]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| HJK | 2015 | Veikkausliiga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 19 | 0 | |||
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 6 | 1 | |||
| 2019 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – | 22 | 6 | |||
| Total | 30 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 7 | ||
| Klubi 04 | 2015 | Kakkonen | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 14 | 7 | |
| 2016 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 5 | 1 | |||
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 2 | |||
| Total | 21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 10 | ||
| RoPS (loan) | 2017 | Veikkausliiga | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 13 | 4 | |
| 2018 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 31 | 11 | |||
| Total | 39 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 15 | ||
| Montreal Impact (loan) | 2019 | MLS | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 5 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Total | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 5 | ||
| Career total | 102 | 30 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 129 | 37 | ||
Honours
References
- Lassi Lappalainen at Soccerway. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- Lassi Lappalainen at WorldFootball.net
- "Lapista tulleella Lappalaisella kovat tavoitteet Stadissa – "Toivon ykköslaiturin roolia"" [Lappalainen from Lapland sets hard goals at Stadio - "I hope to be number one"]. vantaansanomat.fi (in Finnish). Vantaan Sanomat. 19 March 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- "HJK vs. Mariehamn - 2 April 2016 - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- "RoPS lainasi Lappalaisen Helsingin Jalkapalloklubista". rops.fi. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
- "RoPS - SJK 23 July 2017". Soccerway. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- "UFFICIALE: Bologna, tesserato il finlandese Lappalainen" (in Italian). Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- "Arrivederci, Lassi Lappalainen!". HJK Helsinki (in Finnish). 17 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- "Lappalainen on loan". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- "Lappalainen scores twice in MLS debut, Impact hammer Union". Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- "Sweden v Finland game report". Eurosport. 8 January 2019.
- "Montréal takes 2019 Canadian Championship title". Retrieved 28 September 2019.