Musan Salama, or MuSa for short, 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 club based in the city of Pori

Pori

Pori is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäenjoki river, which is the largest in Finland. Pori is the most important town in the Satakunta region....

 in the municipality of Satakunta. The club was first founded in 1960 as a football & ice hockey club in the suburb of Musa. Later on the ice hockey was left out. Literally, the name of the club means the lightning of Musa.

In the 90s Musan Salama made a trip to Ykkönen

Ykkönen

Ykkönen is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system , although it is the highest league managed by the Football Association of Finland.-Competition:...

, the second highest level in Finnish football but it turned out to a short spell. On season 2011 MuSa plays in Kakkonen

Kakkonen

Kakkonen is the third tier of the Finnish football league system.-League structure:Kakkonen is divided to three groups of 14 clubs. A club plays each of the others in the same group twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a...

. MuSa was selected as the best football club in Satakunta in 1998.

MuSa is the youth club of former Finnish international and QPR player Sampsa Timoska

Sampsa Timoska

Sampsa Timoska is a Finnish footballer who plays in defence. He currently plays for Ekenäs IF.His professional career began in Finland in 1996 at Tampere...

.

Division history

• 2011- Kakkonen
  Kakkonen
  Kakkonen is the third tier of the Finnish football league system.-League structure:Kakkonen is divided to three groups of 14 clubs. A club plays each of the others in the same group twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a...
  
  
• 2010- Kakkonen
  Kakkonen
  Kakkonen is the third tier of the Finnish football league system.-League structure:Kakkonen is divided to three groups of 14 clubs. A club plays each of the others in the same group twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a...
  
  
• 2009- Kolmonen
  Kolmonen
  Kolmonen is the fourth highest football league in Finland. The most famous club competing at this level is Helsingin Palloseura who won the Finnish Championship on 9 occasions, the last time being in 1957. They also won the Finnish Cup in 1962...
  
  
• 2008- Kolmonen
  Kolmonen
  Kolmonen is the fourth highest football league in Finland. The most famous club competing at this level is Helsingin Palloseura who won the Finnish Championship on 9 occasions, the last time being in 1957. They also won the Finnish Cup in 1962...
  
  
• 2007- Kakkonen
  Kakkonen
  Kakkonen is the third tier of the Finnish football league system.-League structure:Kakkonen is divided to three groups of 14 clubs. A club plays each of the others in the same group twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a...
  
  
• 2006- Kolmonen
  Kolmonen
  Kolmonen is the fourth highest football league in Finland. The most famous club competing at this level is Helsingin Palloseura who won the Finnish Championship on 9 occasions, the last time being in 1957. They also won the Finnish Cup in 1962...
  
  
• 2005- Kakkonen
  Kakkonen
  Kakkonen is the third tier of the Finnish football league system.-League structure:Kakkonen is divided to three groups of 14 clubs. A club plays each of the others in the same group twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a...
  
  

Squad 2011

• 1 Lauri Koskela (GK)
• 2 Topi Furuholm
• 3 Sami Kirvesmäki
• 4 Aki Jylli
• 5 Joao Gaetti  
• 6 Jussi Välilä
• 7 Onni Nevala
• 8 Teemu Pelttari
• 9 Piracaia  
• 10 Jarno Ruisniemi

• 11 Eero Salminen
• 12 Michal Slawuta (GK)  
• 14 Tuomas Savinainen
• 15 Juha Vallin
• 16 Jussi Männistö
• 17 Kai Sillanpää
• 18 Ville Santanen
• 21 Niko Vainionpää
• 26 Jani Heinonen
• 27 Sami Kauppi

• Manager: Risto Puustinen
• Assistants: Risto Koskikangas, Endre Kolar  

External links

• MuSa's official website
• A story by an english reporter about MuSa