JESSE JORONEN – FINLAND
JESSE JORONEN
FC Copenhagen to Brescia (2019)
Jesse Joronen could have chosen to play ice hockey and basketball at the national level, but luckily decided to pick football.
This 197cm-tall goalkeeper, who joined Fulham in 2013, was considered one of the top under-18 European goalkeeper talents by World Soccer.
Voted Best Goalkeeper of the Danish League for two years in a row (2017-2018), after also being part of the winning team in the Superliga and the Cup with FC Copenhagen, he joined Italian club Brescia in the summer of 2019 for a £5m fee. This is the third-highest fee ever paid by Brescia for a player.
Joronen has played five caps for Finland and is the first Finnish goalkeeper to ever play Italian Serie A.