Full name Lassi Elias Hurskainen Name Lassi Hurskainen | Playing position Role Footballer Number 1 Height 1.79 m | |
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Date of birth (1987-04-08) 8 April 1987 (age 28) Current team Toolon Taisto (#1 / Goalkeeper) Education University of North Carolina at Asheville |
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Lassi Elias Hurskainen (born 8 April 1987) is a Finnish footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for UNC Asheville Men's Soccer before graduating from UNC Asheville in Fall of 2011.
Contents
- HARDCORE adidas BRAZUCA Testing Goalkeeper Trickshots w Lassi Hurskainen Ep 7
- Goalkeeper Lassi Hurskainen Amazing SkiLL
- Personal life
- YouTube Prominence
- Individual
- UNCA Career
- References

After moving back to Finland, Hurskainen played for JIPPO in Joensuu during 2013-2014. In 2014 Hurskainen moved to Helsinki and joined HIFK Fotboll (Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna i Helsingfors), a club founded in 1897. The football section was established in 1907, the same year that the Football Association of Finland was founded. During the season 2014 the team won the Finnish Football League First Division and was promoted into the highest tier of Finnish football, Veikkausliiga. At the same time Hurskainen decided to focus more on football trick shot videos that he had started to produce already during his stay in UNC Asheville. Hurskainen still plays football as a goalkeeper for Töölön Taisto, a club playing in a Finnish Football League Third Division.

Goalkeeper Lassi Hurskainen - Amazing SkiLL !
Personal life

Hurskainen grew up in Joensuu, Finland and attended the Joensuun Lyseon Lukio (Upper seconnary school). In 2007, Hurskainen served in the Finnish Defense Forces.
YouTube Prominence

On 14 February 2011, Hurskainen had with the help of two friends from UNC Asheville created a football trick shot video inspired by various other sports trick shot videos and uploaded it to YouTube. The video's view count grew to an upwards of 3 million over the course of the next couple weeks and months. The video and subsequent videos were featured on ESPN, Good Morning America, and various global local news channels respectively.
Hurskainen has continued producing football trick shot videos after moving back to Finland. He also worked as a producer for a Finnish Sports tv program Elixir hosting the show for over two years (2013-2015). His own YouTube channel has over 30.000 subscribers and with less than 70 videos he has reached over 11 million viewers. His TOP 3 most viewed videos have been:
- Lassi Hurskainen Goalkeeper Tricks, over 4,100,000 views
- Lassi Hurskainen Angry Birds, over 3,500,000 views
- World Record Football Punch | Robert Helenius vs. Lassi Hurskainen, over 3,000,000 views
In 2016 Hurskainen co-founded a new company called Trick&Treat focusing on social videos. Its first video was a state-of-the-art production, an epic battle between Football and Ping Pong: FOOTPONG | Pongfinity vs. Lassi Hurskainen
Individual
UNCA Career
UNCA Year Overviews