RE: Around the Leagues #2 - Finnish Veikkausliiga (Too busy driving like maniacs to bother with their balls!)

Thanks for the corrections ! At least I was right about you being an immigrant lol ;-)

You're spot on about the hockey. As I was reading up, from a participation point if view as opposed to a spectator point of view, football has rocketed in popularity to the top of the sporting charts , especially amongst the young .

Hockey still holds up well as a spectator sport though.

As I mentioned in jest in the Norwegian post, there is also no money in the game for the pros hence their desire to move to the more affluent leagues. The figure I came across was from 2014 when the average annual salary for a pro player in Finland was just 28k Euros, that's below the weekly average for a Premiership player.

I was just a little surprised that with such a well established grass roots game, there weren't more top players leaving and I guess the national team will only become stronger in the future .

Girls game is particularly progressing well there.

Best wishes to you and the family, thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend :-)