We have pretty strange endings, told The New York Times twenty-eight years old Paivi Kemppainen, one of the organizers of football in the mahn – and a master of euphemism. It is possible to have a football in the bahn in Hyrynsalmi. To the city where Jetta became a local celebrity over the years.

This stuffed female badger crammed into a bird’s cage acts as a mascot for the darkness of 12 comrades, who drive seven hours a year from Vihti near Helsinki to defend the mahn football championship. Jetta was bought seven years ago at a bazaar with a long-term answer, and since then she has taken it with her. Her fame, meanwhile, rose.

On Saturday, the football team must start in long pieces of clothing, which the players bought in the second hand. A bottle of vodka circulates from hand to hand, which is obviously a popular way to start before the race. It’s about ten in the morning and it will be time for their first day. Jettu puts it aside and they take off the clamps, under which they have a blue thickness.

They don’t throw themselves into the mud, it’s time to go for one question: For your own? We can honor that we are world champions in football in the mud. How many people claim this? Matti Paulavaara’s answer after a long break.

The history of football in the mud began in 1998, when the creative official of the town of Hyrynsalmi drank with an idea for an event that would allow the large bainat area around to emerge. The first tournament was drunk by 13 tm. Since then, the field has grown to 200 musts.

Meanwhile, the last ampion was played at 20 hitch with various slippery, deep and red mud. The musical backdrop was taken care of by Finnish rock, which echoed away from the surrounding forests.

It is important to imagine an enchanting variant of such a beautiful game as football. You play. Will you win, will you lose? Nobody cares, 25-year-old Sami Korhonen from Kajaani, who played at nine after the tournament. This game is so complete that you are completely exhausted at the end.

There was a lot of sun and enough alcohol

The trend of curative sports events has begun in the peaceful Finnish countryside since the mid-1990s – and since then it has only come to fruition. In 1995, Finn Henri Pellonpaa set a world record when he killed 21 insects in five minutes at the World Championships in the killed chamber in Pelkosenniemi.

The World Ampion was recorded in the sauna room, which took place in 1999 and 2010, until one of the contestants died of this grade. Recently, the Finns, especially adolescents, blocked competitions in riding at nine ends.

More than two thousand people recently came to a remote area in the center of Finland for the Kadoron World Cup in mud football. If you want to compete in the world championship in noen manelek, you must opt ​​to go to Finland. In the country, the world championships are held on a guitar guitar or in a mobile phone.

How did that happen? Why has Finland become such a breeding ground for obskurn sports? There is no simple answer to this, but Finov points to several different, deeply rooted factors. Pat among the population is enthusiastic about staying outside to compensate for the mild winter darkness. The inhabitants have free access to recreational areas and long-term reservations of a national nature are released. And another factor is, of course, alcohol.

There were times when Finland took sports very well. Sport became one of the most important concepts of the form’s identity of the country after gaining independence in Russia in 1917. According to experts, the first half of the 20th century brought the golden ruins of Finnish elite sport. At the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1948, the country won an average of 24 medals and its leaders, such as Hannes Kolehmainen and Paavo Nurmi, earned heroic status.

Gradually, however, the world caught up with Finland and overtook it. In 1992 and 2012, Finland drove the house an average of three medals from the Summer Olympics, and at the last summer games in Rio last year, it won the only medal – bronze in the women’s box in the lightweight.