Silja Serenade is the Winner of Tallink Cup 2017

First of all big congrats and big applause to Galaxy and Serenade for the successful football tournament this year! Both teams have shown excellent skills and great commitment. Both teams deserve to be in the Grande Finale – no question about it, respect guys!!!

This is the first to be in the Finale for Serenade in Tallink Cup. Galaxy has been in the Grande Finale already three times (2012, 2015 and 2016) and has three silver medals in their pocket.

12 teams started in the beginning
8 to go forward to playoffs
4 to battle for the medals
1 TEAM TO RULE THEM ALL, IN THE HALL OF FAME


Sometimes the good faith is not enough and even the fun and fight doesn’t help, as ball is round and life is exciting, and everything doesn’t work out as we all want. This year the winner of the Grande Finale was solved through the rules of the tournament.

The winner of Tallink Cup 2017 is Silja Serenade. Congratulations Champions and Serenade is marked now to the Hall of Fame! Superteam of Galaxy got respectably the honorable silver medals! Bronze medals went to Tallink Hotels team against Victoria. Big applause to you all and we altogether salute you dear champions!

In addition to all the medals and honor, three special trophies’ of Tallink Cup 2017 was acknowledged for individual performances:
• Best Goal Scorer – Annes Aganovic (Galaxy)
• Most Valuable Player – Krister-Kaspar Rannamaa (Hotels)
• Best Goalkeeper – Ivo Jaani (Victoria)

The seventh football tournament of Tallink Cup: 12 teams, 20 games, 91 goals, over 300 players from Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, over 7000 fans, over a million emotions! Faith & Fun & Fight & Football is way better than … carrots!! Thank you all the players and supporters and fans!

Very Big Special Thanks, for the commitment and all the arrangements and help, goes to our football captains: Tero Koistinen (Serenade), Patrik Schrey (Galaxy), Jüri Jasska (Hotels), Marek Palm (Shuttle), Andres Aunap (Europa), Alan Kiil (Victoria), Rainer Kurikjan and Rasmus Leinsalu (Baltic Queen), Vilmars Melderis (Romantika), Dmitri Sanin (Isabelle), Tommy Salminen (Symphony), Heidi Hemmer (Office).

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Wish you all many beautiful goals @ work @ home and of course in the football pitch! And see you next year on Tallink Cup 2018!

Taavi Tiivel
Tallink Cup