Kimmo Tauriainen (born 16 March 1972) is a Finnish former

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Career

He has played for

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, Kontu,

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, MyPa and

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. He also played one season in Norwegian

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. He won the

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with Atlantis FC in 2001 and with MyPa in 2004. Tauriainen has also won Finnish championship in 2005 with MyPa. Tauriainen returned to Atlantis from MyPa in 2006. He had to end his professional career because of knee injury after season 2006.

Personal life

He is the brother of fellow professional footballers Pasi Tauriainen and Vesa Tauriainen, and the uncle of

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and

Julius Tauriainen Julius Mikael Tauriainen (born 18 April 2001) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Veikkausliiga club Lahti. Early life Tauriainen grew up in Veikkola, Kirkkonummi and started playing football in the local club FC W ...

. Nowadays Kimmo works as a sales person in Duosport. Kimmo is also getting married during summer 2009 with singer Maria.

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*http://www.atlantisfc.fi/fudis/akatemia/08a.htm 1972 births Living people Sportspeople from Rovaniemi Finnish footballers Finland men's youth international footballers Men's association football midfielders Veikkausliiga players Eliteserien players Ykkönen players Rovaniemen Palloseura players FC Kontu players Kemi City F.C. players GBK Kokkola players Atlantis FC players IK Start players FC Jokerit players Myllykosken Pallo −47 players Finnish expatriate footballers Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate footballers in Norway {{Finland-footy-midfielder-stub