His name Kaan means King of Kings in Turkish. The one who pulls the sword from the stone. The Finnish son of a father from the Bosphorus, who died at the age of five, became the ruler of Spartan hearts, but his story is chilling.
Kaan Kairinen’s (25) free-kick shot into the sanctuary of Stuttgart meant a valuable point (1:1) in the table of the main stage of the Champions League. The midfielder with an amazing kicking technique and a director’s vision of the events on the field became the hero of the Letenské. And while…
Eating disorder
After the early death of his father, he was dependent on his mother, who had to take care of three children. She worked day and night for the family to survive. “Mom is my idol. We lived very modestly, but we always had food in the fridge and I was able to play football as well,” Kaan confessed. And football went great for him. When he was sixteen, the British newspaper The Guardian ranked him among the 50 greatest future football stars! But then everything got stuck.
Kairinen left for the Danish Midtjylland, but instead of another departure came a harsh impact. He did not make it to A and, in addition, he began to suffer personally. Without family, without friends, and with a severely damaged psyche, physical troubles came. Suddenly unable to eat, Kaan’s weight was plummeting due to an eating disorder. He lost the power to train and eventually to live. “I didn’t know where I belonged. I had no desire or motivation. I was sad, depressed, anxious. I cried for many days,” he recently spoke to the Finnish website Veikkauksen.
The desire to live on zero
The footballer described his ordeal, which Spartan fans had no idea about, in order to help other people who, like him, were thinking of the worst – suicide. “At one point my desire for life was almost at zero. Yes, at one point I also thought that there was no point anymore. I was really down.’ At the same time, Kairinen did not confide in anyone about his problems, not even his mother, who is everything to him.
“Because I would have to tell her how I was struggling… But looking back, I should have gotten help. I should have called my mom,” he realizes. In the end, it helped Kairinen that he could return to his homeland on loan. He restarted his life and career at Inter Turku. “Fortunately, everything turned out well and I got out of that environment. Somewhere in the back of my mind, my mother’s instruction remained: No matter what happens, never give up! That helped me get through the bad times,” said the spartan, who is extremely happy that mental health issues are being talked about more and more in public.
You know that…
Sparta bought Kairinen from Norwegian Lilleström in the winter of 2022 for approximately 40 million crowns.
He was healed by love
The troubles of his youth are (perhaps) definitely gone. Kaan Kairinen is beaming with happiness, which his love Linda Melissa helps him achieve abundantly.
“Now I have good and healthy family relationships and a really great relationship with a wonderful woman. I’m absolutely alive!” the Spartan midfielder confessed to a charming fashion designer who moved with him to Prague. And the joy is obviously mutual. “Love, I’m so proud of you for what you’ve accomplished!” the brunette reports.
The straight line that went around the world: Even Messi would be envious!
The debate of the employees of the MHPArena in Stuttgart under the wing of the gate: “Look, there really isn’t even a thread of a cobweb.” Sparta Kairinen, the prankster, made sure that there wasn’t one.
In the hateful backdrop of the home team, Fin’s left-hander brushed the ball against the pole in the gallows! Rivelino, Beckham and Pirlo, the masters of this craft, somehow kicked penalties. On Tuesday evening, Kairinen was among the most searched players on the transfermarkt website. com. There, Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappé, Haaland and Neymar gave him “bushes”. The video of his exhibition hit went around the world and broke the internet. Connoisseurs loved it to the point of exhaustion on social networks. “He cleaned it up decently. I don’t think there are any spiders left in that corner of the goal.” laughed Red coach Lars Friis (48).
The Germans didn’t enjoy it anymore, but they had to admit that it was a brilliant piece by the Finn. “He didn’t let the whistling distract him and made a sensational shot. The goalkeeper had no chance,” wondered the newspaper Bild. “Fluffy shot, dreamland goal,” the portal kicker.de struck an equally admiring chord. “Even Messi would be proud of such a straight line!” even the American television CBS laughed. Well, the beaming author of the football artwork, Kaan Kairinen, said with twitching corners of his mouth: “I have never scored a more beautiful goal. Every kid dreams of hitting a straight like this one day. I will remember it for the rest of my life.”
He’s laughing again! Kairinen has overcome life’s hardships and shines in life and on the lawns.
