American football|Aleksi Pulkkinen has traveled a long way from Vuosaari to Alabama.
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Aleksi Pulkkinen, 23, moved to the United States in the summer of 2023 and received a full scholarship to the University of South Alabama.
Pulkkinen plays American football for the Jaguars team and is the first Finnish kicker at the NCAA’s first level.
The first match in a Jaguars jersey ended with a 27-20 victory for the Ohio University Bobcats.
Pulkkinen studies international politics and communication.
of East Helsinki Raised in Vuosaari Aleksi Pulkkinen23, moved to the United States in the summer of 2023 after receiving a full scholarship to the University of South Alabama. The young man plays American football and currently represents the University of South Alabama team, which is called the Jaguars.
Full scholarship (full ride) is worth about $50,000 per year. Pulkkinen said in the summer of 2023 that he got his dream model.
Last season, Pulkkinen was not allowed to play university matches because he had played Vaahteraliiga matches in Finland with the Helsinki Wolverines. Now the fight is over, and the Finnish linen head has reached the field at the first level of the US university league (D1 FBS).
193-centimeter Pulkkinen is a shot putter, and on Saturday he became the first Finnish shot putter at the NCAA level one. The game was played in Ohio and ended with a 27-20 victory for the local Ohio University Bobcats.
22,158 spectators watched the match at the Peden stadium, so there was enough atmosphere. Pulkkinen was not at that stadium for the first time, as the place became familiar already in the summer of 2019, when he was there to show his talents to the coaching staff of two graduate schools (Lexington and University of Kentucky).
Then there was no offer, but four years later it happened. Besides playing, Pulkkinen studies international politics and communication. He played football in Finland for a long time and started playing as an American football winger when he was only 15 years old. The young man quickly developed into the only one in Finland pro kicker Kari “Kaba” Grönroosin in coaching.
The Jaguars’ next game is already on Thursday at their home stadium in the city of Mobile. At the end of September, a truly amazing experience awaits the Finn, when the South Alabama crew travels to Baton Rouge, where the team meets the LSU Tigers at Tiger Stadium, which attracts 100,000 spectators.
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