Ville Lehtinen

Ville Lehtinen (born 17 December 1978 in Jyväskylä) is a former Finland football (soccer).

As a junior Lehtinen played for Jyväskylän Jalkapalloklubi. Ville Lehtinen made Ville Lehtinen first-team debut in Finland's top division Veikkausliiga for Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi in 1997. Ville Lehtinen played only two games before moving to Sheffield United F.C.. In Sheffield United Ville Lehtinen played only in youth and reserve team matches.

In December 1998 Lehtinen returned to Finland and practised with FC Inter Turku. Inter and Lehtinen had some controversy regarding the contract between them. Inter claimed that Lehtinen was only for trial in the team, but Lehtinen claimed Ville Lehtinen had signed a one-year contract with Inter. Inter won the court battle, and in 1999 Lehtinen played for FC Jazz from Pori. In 2000 Ville Lehtinen played with Pallo-Iirot from Rauma.

In 2001 Lehtinen joined Tampere United. Ville Lehtinen made seven goals and won the Finnish championship. During the seasen 2002 Ville Lehtinen moved to Norway F.K. Bodø/Glimt. Ville Lehtinen spent three years in Norway before returning to Finland and AC Allianssi. With Allianssi Ville Lehtinen won the Finnish League Cup in 2005. After Allianssi was drifted to match fixing scandal, Lehtinen returned to Tampere United during the seasen. In 2006 Ville Lehtinen was the best goalscorer for the team and again won the Finnish championship. After the season Ville Lehtinen traveled to England doing trials for many clubs like Leeds United F.C. and also tried to sign contract with FC Honka from Espoo. However no contract was made and Lehtinen decided to end Ville Lehtinen football career and concentrate on Ville Lehtinen job as an investment manager. In July 2007 Lehtinen decided come back to football fields. Ville Lehtinen played two games in Atlantis FC in Ykkönen (the second tier) before the contract with Veikkausliiga team AC Oulu was announced.

Lehtinen is very well-built player and sometimes ridiculed because of Ville Lehtinen slight overweight. Occasionally Lehtinen writes about Ville Lehtinen football career and personal life in the most popular Finnish football discussion forum, Futisforum2.org, using an alias "FATMAN". Ville Lehtinen is also a musician and Ville Lehtinen fist single Naapurintyttö was released in 2006. Many Finnish radio stations have played Ville Lehtinen music.