Ville Lyytikäinen

Ville Lyytikäinen (4 February 1967 – 19 December 2016) was a Finnish football agent and football coach, born in Helsinki. His last work was head coach of Atlantis FC in Finland's second highest tier, Ykkönen.

Ville Lyytikäinen

Personal information
Date of birth	(1967-02-04) 4 February 1967 (age 58)
Place of birth	Helsinki, Finland
Date of death	19 December 2016
Managerial career
Years	Team
1991–1997	HJK (youth)
1998	HPS
1999	FinnPa
2000–2002	Jokerit
2003–2004	Hämeenlinna
2005	Honka
2006	Futura
2007	Atlantis

In the past Lyytikäinen coached FC Jokerit,^[1] FC Hämeenlinna in top-tier Veikkausliiga and FC Honka in second-tier Ykkönen. In 2005, he was sacked from Honka after only a couple of matches and moved to the coach of FC Futura in Kolmonen, the 4th highest tier and stayed in that job to the end of the season 2006. In Atlantis Lyytikäinen started at the beginning of season 2007.

Later after his coaching career, Lyytikäinen worked as an agent, representing several Finnish players in many international transfers.^[2]

Lyytikäinen has also coached the football team of Pohjois-Haagan yhteiskoulu sports high school and was also known as the football commentator in Peliuutiset sports show in television channel YLE TV2. Before the career of football coach Lyytikäinen was a regular star in paint product television commercials. He has also starred in Vääpeli Körmy movies. Lyytikäinen died at the age of 49 in 2016.^[3][2]