Jarkko Erkki Hurme (born 4 June 1986) is a Finnish

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who plays as a defender, primarily as a right back.

Club career

Born in

Oulu Oulu ( , ; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of North Ostrobothnia. It is located on the northwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Oulujoki, River Oulu. The population of Oulu is approximately , while the Oulu sub-regio ...

, Hurme, a right back, started his career at OLS Oulu and

AC Oulu AC Oulu is a Finnish professional football club based in Oulu, currently playing in Finland's premier division, ''Veikkausliiga''. Formed in 2002, the club have played six seasons in Finland's highest football league Veikkausliiga and 16 seasons ...

, before moving to

Veikkausliiga Veikkausliiga () is a professional association football league in Finland and the highest level of the Finnish football league system. The league comprises the top 12 clubs of the country. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agenc ...

club

RoPS Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS) is a football club founded in 1950 and based in Rovaniemi, Finland. RoPS played in the Finnish Premier Division, (''Veikkausliiga'') for 32 years, from 1981 to 2021. In 2021, RoPS withdrew from professional football ...

for the 2005 season. He then transferred to

Udinese Calcio Udinese Calcio (; "Udinese Football") is a professional association football, football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The team currently competes in the Serie A, the first tier of Italian football league system, Italian fo ...

of the Italian

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on 1 January 2006. He played for

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during the 2007–08 and 2008–09 seasons. In the summer 2009 he returned to AC Oulu and helped them to win

Ykkönen ''Ykkönen'' (Finnish language, Finnish for 'Number One'; , previously I divisioona) is the third highest level of the Finnish football league system (after the Veikkausliiga and Ykkösliiga), managed by the Football Association of Finland. Until ...

. Hurme later played for

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, where he was the team's captain. He signed a two-year contract with the Norwegian

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side Odd ahead of the 2014 season. He made his league debut on 20 May 2014, starting against Aalesund FK, helping his side to a 2–1 win at home.

International career

Hurme was a regular for the Finnish Under-21 national team. He also played for Finland at the FIFA U-17 World Championship 2003. Hurme earned his first cap for

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in 2012 Baltic Cup against

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on 1 June 2012 in

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, Estonia. He came on as a substitute in the 63rd minute. He scored his first international goal in a home game against

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in the

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on 11 October 2014.

Career statistics

Club

International goals

:''Scores and results lists Finland's goal tally first.''

Honours

TPS *

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: 2012 SJK *

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Individual *

Best defender:

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

Pelipaikkojen parhaat 2012 nimetty

References

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* 1986 births Living people Footballers from Oulu Men's association football defenders Finnish men's footballers 21st-century Finnish sportsmen Finland men's under-21 international footballers Finland men's international footballers Oulun Luistinseura players AC Oulu players Rovaniemen Palloseura players Turun Palloseura footballers Hellas Verona FC players Udinese Calcio players Odds BK players Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho players Kokkolan Palloveikot players Veikkausliiga players Ykkönen players Kakkonen players Eliteserien players Finnish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Norway {{Finland-footy-defender-stub