Jürgen Kuresoo (born 11 February 1987, in Elva) is an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

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and football coach, playing for

FC Elva FC Elva is a Football team, football club, based in Elva, Estonia, that competes in the Esiliiga, the second level of Estonian football league system, Estonian football. History Elva came close to rising to the top-division Meistriliiga for the f ...

in Estonian

Esiliiga The Esiliiga is the second division in the Estonian football league system. The Esiliiga is ranked below the Meistriliiga and above the Esiliiga B. As in most countries with low temperatures in winter time, the season starts in March and ends ...

. He plays the position of

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and is 1.76 m tall. He has also worked as Elva's youth coach and assistant coach. In his earlier career, he played as a

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Club career

Having previously played for

Sillamäe Kalev Sillamäe (Estonian for 'Bridge Hill'; also known by the Germanised names of ''Sillamäggi'' or ''Sillamägi'') is a town in Ida-Viru County in the northeastern part of Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. It has a population o ...

and

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, he joined

in 2010, while team was in III liiga. Kuresoo scored his 100th goal for the club on 5 October 2014 after which he expressed his desire to remain in the club until the end of his career. The club was promoted to

in 2017.

International career

On 15 November 2005, Kuresoo made the first team debut as a substitute in a 3–1 defeat against

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Honours

Individual

* Esiliiga B Player of the Year:

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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 ...

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* * * 1987 births Living people People from Elva, Estonia Sportspeople from Tartu County Tartu JK Merkuur players FC Flora players Pärnu JK Tervis players JK Sillamäe Kalev players Viljandi JK Tulevik players Estonian men's footballers Estonia men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards FC Elva players Estonian football managers 21st-century Estonian sportsmen {{Estonia-footy-bio-stub