Pertti Mäkipää (4 August 1941 – 19 August 2019) was a Finnish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

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. He made 46 appearances for the Finland national team from 1962 to 1970. He played for a number of clubs in his native

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

, mostly in

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

Honours

Ilves *

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: 1979

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* 1941 births 2019 deaths Finnish men's footballers Footballers from Tampere Finland men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Tampereen Pallo-Veikot players Reipas Lahti players FC Kuusysi players Ilves (football) players Ilves (football) managers 20th-century Finnish sportsmen Finnish Football Hall of Fame inductees {{Finland-footy-bio-stub