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Full name
  
Essi Katriina Sainio

2005–2006
  
HJK

Position
  
Winger

Years
  
Team

Height
  
1.66 m

Playing position
  
Winger

Role
  
Footballer

Place of birth
  
Helsinki, Finland

Name
  
Essi Sainio


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Date of birth
  
(1986-09-09) 9 September 1986 (age 29)

Essi Katriina Sainio (born 9 September 1986) is a Finnish footballer, who is currently without a club. She most recently played for SC Freiburg of Germany's Frauen-Bundesliga. She previously played for Turbine Potsdam in Germany and for AIK of the Swedish Damallsvenskan. Sainio began her senior career with Naisten Liiga clubs FC Honka and HJK in her home country. Since making her debut in 2006, Sainio won 45 caps and scored three goals for the Finland women's national football team. A winger who can also play as a full-back, she was part of the Finnish team which hosted UEFA Women's Euro 2009 and reached the quarter-finals.

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Club career

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Her career began at the age of nine years at FC Kasiysi Espoo. She then moved to FC Espoo and FC Honka Espoo and arrived at HJK Helsinki in 2005.

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Her transfer from the German Frauen-Bundesliga team 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam to the Swedish Damallsvenskan club AIK was announced in May 2009. At AIK Sainio made seven appearances and scored one goal before suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury in 2010. She was allowed to move back to Germany with SC Freiburg in July 2010.

International career

Sainio made her debut in the Finnish national team on 5 June 2006 against Belgium. A few weeks later she signed a three-year deal with the then German champion 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam. During the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship in Russia, she suffered a fracture of her middle foot. She then suffered the same fracture in March 2007 at the Algarve Cup and again in July 2007 at the Nordic Cup.

National coach Michael Käld selected Sainio in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2009, which Finland were hosting. She started the 3–2 quarter-final defeat by England, but was substituted for Annica Sjölund early in the second half.

References

Essi Sainio Wikipedia


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