From Jyväskylä and Kampus Dynamo came the most Finnish transfer news of all time when it comes to futsal. Jukka Kytölä joins Pesaro on a season-long contract.
Campus Dynamo announced (you switch to another service)that the club from Jyväskylä, which won the four previous championship golds Jukka Kytölä moves to Pesaro’s ranks with a season-long contract. Pesaro has won the three previous Italian championships.
Kytölä, 33, has been part of the main forces of the Finnish national team and KaDy for years, especially as a quarterback and defensive player.
Kytölä has played in Italy before. For the first time, he went to Trident, who played in the second level, in 2013–14 with his brother Mikko Kytölän with.
After that, he returned to KaDy, until the 2016–17 season, the road took him to Serie A2 Milan.
In the following season, Kytölä played a key role when KaDy won its first Finnish championship.
Kytölä was raising Mantova from Serie A2 to Serie A1 in the 2018–19 season and also played in Mantova in the 2019–20 season interrupted by the corona virus, the first Finn in Serie A1.
Kytölä commented that the offer came from his agent unexpectedly, because he was no longer looking for a new club at this point in the summer.
– Of course, I am very taken by the interest of Italy’s reigning three-time champion, and this is probably the biggest challenge of my career so far, along with the hunt for a World Cup place starting this season.
The men’s national futsal team played in the prestigious tournament for the first time at the beginning of the year. Finland got through its initial group well to the quarter-finals, where Portugal, who won the EC gold, was better.
In the qualifiers for the 2024 World Cup, Finland will face Denmark and Romania in the initial group. The match program has not yet been announced.
Italy has long been one of the leading European countries in futsal. The Italian men’s national team has won European Championship gold in 2003 and 2014, but was behind Finland in the initial group of the European Championship last winter and was a group jumbo.
Kytölä estimates that the level of professionalism in Finland has progressed rapidly, but in Italy it has remained the same for ten years.
– As far as I understand, the club was interested in a player who had already gained experience in Serie A, who could operate as a defensive winger as well as a base player and thus guard the most dangerous opponents, Kytölä anticipates his role.