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Siiri Perälä
Personal information
Date of birth	1 June 1993
Place of birth	Jämsä, Finland
Date of death	5 January 2022 (aged 28)
Senior career*
Years	Team
2016–2018	KaDy
2018–2021	GFT
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Siiri Perälä (1 June 1993 – 5 January 2022) was a Finnish football and futsal player. She played in the Naisten Futsal-Liiga from 2017 to 2021 and won the league championship in 2019. Perälä earned five caps in the Finnish women's futsal team from 2019 to 2020.^[1]

Perälä also played football in the Naisten Ykkönen, Kakkonen and Kolmos from 2014 to 2019, representing Jyväskylä Pallokerho and FC Espoo.

Personal life and death

Perälä was diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma in the spring of 2020, and died on 5 January 2022, at the age of 28.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Siiri Perälä on poissa". Suomen Palloliitto. 5 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
^ Pihlajarinne, Päivi (9 July 2020). "Syöpä pysäytti jämsäläislähtöisen futsal-pelaaja Siiri Perälän, 27 – Ajatus maajoukkueen tulevista EM-karsinnoista antaa voimaa vaikeina hetkinä". Jämsän Seutu. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
^ "Futsalin maajoukkuepelaaja Siiri Perälä kuoli 28-vuotiaana". Helsingin Sanomat. 6 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.

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[1] "Siiri Perälä on poissa". Suomen Palloliitto. 5 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.

[2] Pihlajarinne, Päivi (9 July 2020). "Syöpä pysäytti jämsäläislähtöisen futsal-pelaaja Siiri Perälän, 27 – Ajatus maajoukkueen tulevista EM-karsinnoista antaa voimaa vaikeina hetkinä". Jämsän Seutu. Retrieved 6 January 2022.

[3] "Futsalin maajoukkuepelaaja Siiri Perälä kuoli 28-vuotiaana". Helsingin Sanomat. 6 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.

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