Jyrki Heliskoski (born September 28, 1945) is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 coach

Coach (sport)

In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

. He's currently coaching the Finnish national under-19 team.

Heliskoski worked briefly as the head coach of the Finnish national team

Finland national football team

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 from July 2005 to January 2006. He then continued as an assistant coach under Roy Hodgson

Roy Hodgson

Roy Hodgson is a former English footballer and current head coach of West Bromwich Albion.Hodgson, who has managed sixteen different teams in eight countries, guided the Switzerland national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and qualification for Euro 1996; Switzerland had not qualified...

 until November 2007. Previously he'd coached a number of Finnish national youth teams, including the under-21 team

Finland national under-21 football team

The Finnish national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Finland. The team qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship final tournament in 2009.-UEFA U-21 Championship Record:...

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On the club side, Heliskoski coached HJK Helsinki

HJK Helsinki

Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi , internationally known as HJK Helsinki, is a Finnish football club, based in the capital Helsinki...

 in 1985–89, winning three league titles. He also coached HJK in 2000–2001. Before 1978 he worked as a handball

Team handball

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coach.