Maximo Tolonen

Maximo Tolonen (born 4 March 2001) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a striker for IF Gnistan.[1]

Maximo Tolonen
Personal information
Date of birth (2001-03-04) 4 March 2001
Place of birth Espoo, Finland
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Gnistan
Number 19
Youth career
Rangers
Hibernian
Honka
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2017 Honka 25 (2)
2018–2019 SJK 30 (1)
2018–2019 → SJK Akatemia 14 (8)
2020 IFK Mariehamn 20 (0)
2021 Ilves 0 (0)
2021– Gnistan 66 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 October 2023

Career

Tolonen was born to a Finnish father and an Argentine mother. He grew up in Espoo, but moved to Cambridge in England when he was five years old. They lived for one-and-a-half years in Cambridge before moving back to Espoo.[2] Tolonen is fluent in Finnish, Spanish because his mother is Argentine, and English because he lived in England and Scotland.[3]

At the age of 10, in 2011, Tolonen moved to Scotland with his family. He began playing for Rangers. The club later offered him a contract, but he declined, because it was to far away from where he lived in Edinburgh.[2] He then moved to Hibernian. Two years later, the Tolonen family moved back to Finland and joined FC Honka.

He left SJK at the end of the 2019 season.[4] On 3 December 2019, it was confirmed that Tolonen would join IFK Mariehamn for the 2020 season, signing a one-year deal with an option for one further year.[5]

References
  1. Maximo Tolonen at Soccerway. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  2. Tiesitkö hänet? Maximo Tolonen, 16, on yksi Suomen lupaavimmista jalkapalloilijoista - vankka kielitaito jo valmiina, iltalehti.fi, 4 August 2017
  3. Laitinen, Ilkka (7 April 2017). "Tiesitkö hänet? Maximo Tolonen, 16, on yksi Suomen lupaavimmista jalkapalloilijoista - vankka kielitaito jo valmiina". Iltalehti (in Finnish). Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  4. "Maximo Tolonen jättää SJK:n". sjk.fi. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  5. IFK Mariehamn hankki poikien maajoukkueen vakiokasvon, yle.fi, 3 December 2019


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