Volleyball player Olli-Pekka “Lelu” Ojansivu will leave the playing field this spring. Ojansivu, who has played in his career all over Europe, has a bad shoulder. Ojansivu also played for the Finnish national team for years.
Simo Arkko,
Jukka Eskanen
Long-term star player of the Finnish volleyball team Olli-Pekka Ojansivu end his career. The chipper, who saves Savo Volley from Kuopio in the Champions League, will announce his decision on his Facebook account. News about it first (go to the second service)Savon Sanomat.
It all ends in time, so does my career in volleyball. The shoulder is in such a condition that it is a full job to be able to play the running players, 34-year-old Ojansivu writes.
Ojansivu says that when he was young, his biggest dream was to play for the VaLePa team.
– There were no big dreams from abroad, not even from the national team. When I entered the SM League at the age of 16, I was Satan proud of myself. Since then, everything else has been a plus.
Ojansivu represented Finland in the national team at the World Championships and European Championships level. Over the years, he scored a total of 200 A national matches.
Olli-Pekka Ojansivu also played in Greece, France, Turkey, Russia, Romania and Iran during his long career as a player.