This latest example from the collection features Valkeakosken Haka, one of the finest & loveliest names in Finnish football (good, attractive ones of which there have been a fair few over the years in a swiftly-changing landscape of club nomenclature), indeed perhaps second only to the late & much-lamented Kuusysi Lahti.
Again, the club logo, as represented on the badge, was a most stylish one back at the time of the particular vintage of the object’s manufacture (possibly the 1970s), although something less so appears to have superseded it as the club was rebranded ‘FC Haka', depending where one researches (the Finnish FA website, for instance, which one would assume to be informed & current, displays a Haka emblem like that on the badge): whatever, this particular badge is a handsome little object, to be sported with pride & in celebration & support of one of the more obscure corners of European football.
In common with any number of the favourite clubs scattered across the continent, Haka have been subject to the vicissitudes of football fortunes in recent seasons (literally in financial terms), from winning championships to suffering relegation from the Finnish ‘Veikkausliiga’ in 2012, this year finishing second in the 2nd level ‘Ykkönen’ & thus, alas, failing to secure an immediate return to the top flight, but devotion to the name & cause endures.
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