Kai Pahlman (8 July 1935 – 8 March 2013) was a Finnish

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player and coach who played as a

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. Between 1954 and 1968 he capped 56 times for the Finland national team, scoring 13 goals. At club level Pahlman played for HPS, HJK and

Reipas Reipas (July 14, 1948 – September 20, 1971) was a successful Finnish trotter. He was a Finnhorse gelding, and the first Finnish horse to earn over one million marks in one season. Reipas was the best earning trotter in Finland through 19 ...

. Pahlman invented the curl ball, that he called The Banana Shot. Pahlman was the son of Finnish musician Helge Pahlman and an accomplished piano player and composer. He appeared as a piano player in the 1961

musical film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the Character (arts), characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serv ...

'' Tähtisumua'' and composed music for several short documentaries in 1973.Kai Pahlman
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Finnish Championship Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

: 1957, 1970, 1973 (as a coach) *

Mestaruussarja Mestaruussarja (Championship series) was the top division of Finnish football from 1930 to 1989. It was replaced by Veikkausliiga in 1990. In 1930 league format was used for the first time to decide the Finnish champion. Before that (1908-1929) ...

top scorer: 1958, 1961, 1965 *

Finnish Cup The Finnish Cup (; ) is Finland's main national cup competition in football. This yearly competition is open for all member clubs of the FA of Finland and has been played since 1955. The winner qualifies for the UEFA Europa Conference League ...

: 1962, 1966 *

Finnish Footballer of the Year There are three different Finnish Player of the Year Awards in Finland. The sports journalists have elected their male "Player of the Year" since 1947, the Football Association of Finland theirs since 1953. In 1976 the FA began selecting a female "P ...

: 1958

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* 1935 births 2013 deaths Footballers from Helsinki Finnish men's footballers Finnish film score composers Finnish male film score composers Finnish male film actors Finnish football managers Finland men's international footballers Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi managers Mestaruussarja players Men's association football forwards Helsingin Palloseura footballers Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players Reipas Lahti players 20th-century Finnish sportsmen Finnish Football Hall of Fame inductees {{Finland-footy-forward-stub