Lassi Hurskainen

On 14 February 2011, Hurskainen had with the help of two friends from UNC Asheville created a football trick shot video inspired by various other sports trick shot videos and uploaded it to YouTube. The video's view count grew to an upwards of 3 million over the course of the next couple weeks and months. The video and subsequent videos were featured on ESPN, Good Morning America, and various global local news channels respectively.[1]

Hurskainen has continued producing football trick shot videos after moving back to Finland. He also worked as a producer for a Finnish Sports TV program Elixir[2] hosting the show for over two years (2013–2015). His own YouTube channel has over 30.000 subscribers and with less than 70 videos he has reached over 11 million viewers. His TOP 3 most viewed videos have been:

1. Lassi Hurskainen Goalkeeper Tricks,[3] over 4,100,000 views
2. Lassi Hurskainen Angry Birds,[4] over 3,500,000 views
3. World Record Football Punch | Robert Helenius vs. Lassi Hurskainen,[5] over 3,000,000 views

In 2016 Hurskainen co-founded a new company called Trick&Treat focusing on social videos. Its first video was a state-of-the-art production, an epic battle between Football and Ping Pong: FOOTPONG | Pongfinity vs. Lassi Hurskainen[6]

• 2008 – UNC Asheville Big South All Freshman Team[7]
• 2008 – Elon University Invitational All Tournament Team in the Elon Classic[8]
• 2009 – Hyatt Place Select Invitational All Tournament Team[9]
• 2009 – UNC Asheville Big South Player of the Week[10]
• 2010 – Finnish Football Association Eastern District's "Football Act of the Year" for goal with SC Riverball[11]
• 2010 – Received most Honors for SC Riverball in nationwide Second Division [12]
• 2010 – Hyatt Place Select Invitiational All Tournament Team[13]
• 2010 – UNC Asheville Big South Second Team All Conference[14]
• 2011 – Big South Conference Defensive Player of the Week Honor for games played Sept. 26-Oct. 2 [15]
• 2011 – Big South Conference Defensive Player of the Week Honor for games played Oct. 3–9 [16]
• 2011 – Big South Conference All-Tournament Team Selection [17]

UNCA Year Overviews[19]

• 2008: Played every minute of every match and posted a 1.20 goals. Allowed one goal or less in 12 different matches...stopped five shots and allowed just one goal in 1–1 vs. Southern Conference champion UNC Greensboro (9–14)...made season-high ninesaves in win over Winthrop (10–25)...most goals he allowed were three in 3–1 loss at Lipscomb (9–21)...had a 0.94 goals against average in eight regular-season Big South Conference matches...made all-tournament at Elon Invitational.
• 2009: Earned all-tournament honors at Hyatt Place Select Tournament in Nashville as he helped lead to the Bulldogs to their first tournament title in more than 20 years...stopped an amazing 25 shots in the two matches with 15 vs. Lipscomb (9–18) and then 10 more vs. Belmont (9–20)...Bulldog won both matches 2–1...earned two shutouts on the year with 1–0 victory over ETSU (9–29) and 1–0 triumph at Radford (10–10)...made 108 saves on the year...had nagging injuries throughout the season that caused him to miss three matches.
• 2010: For the second time in his career, he played every minute of every match...produced three shutouts, including back-to-back blankins of Eastern Illinois (9–5) and Brevard College (9–8)...made Kentucky Invitational All-Tournament team...posted shutout of Big South foe Winthrop (11–3)...made season-high 11 saves at High Point (11–16)...also made five saves against the Panthers in Big South Tournament (11–11) and earned spot on Big South All-Tournament team...led Big South in saves with 96...stopped nine shots in 1–1 overtime at Longwood (10–2).