Sami Hyypiä

Finnish footballer and manager (born 1973)

Sami Hyypiä is remembered in sport for work that changed what came after it.

The record lists Sami Hyypiä as Finnish footballer and manager (born 1973).

Sami Hyypiä was born at Porvoo in 1973. His recorded nationality is Finland.

Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.

He worked as association football player and association football coach.

Sport is the rare field that publishes its own evidence: the result is the argument.

Working from Finland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Sami Hyypiä is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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