Tarmo Neemelo

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Tarmo Neemelo
Full name	Tarmo Neemelo
Date of birth	February 10, 1982 (1982-02-10) (age 26)
Place of birth	Paide, Estonian SSR, USSR
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Centre forward
Club information
Current club	MyPa
Number	33
Youth clubs
	FC Lelle
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000–2003 2004–2006 2006–2007 2006 2007 2008–	FC Kuressaare FC TVMK Tallinn Helsingborgs IF → FC TVMK Tallinn (loan) → GIF Sundsvall (loan) MyPa	55 (3) 58 (54) 5 (0) 17 (7) 24 (8) 8 (2)
National team²
2005–	Estonia	20 (1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 25, 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of October 18, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Tarmo Neemelo (born February 10, 1982 in Paide) is an Estonian professional footballer, who plays in Finnish Veikkausliiga, for MyPa. He plays the position of striker and is also a member of the Estonia national football team.

1 Club career
2 International career
- 2.1 International Goals
3 Honours
- 3.1 Club
- 3.2 Individual
4 External links

[edit] Club career

Tarmo Neemelo was born in Paide, Estonia. He began playing football in local club FC Lelle and was noticed by FC Flora Tallinn, one of the major clubs in Estonia. He did not manage to get into the first team and decided to move from Flora Tallinn to FC Kuressaare. He then moved to FC TVMK Tallinn in 2004.

In the 2005 season, for FC TVMK Tallinn, he scored 41 goals in 33 games, which put him in 12th place in the ESM Golden Shoe.

In 2006 he has moved to Sweden for the coming season, to potentially partner fellow striker Henrik Larsson at Helsingborgs IF. In the previous season, he scored 13 goals in 25 games for his club. He soon moved back to FC TVMK Tallinn though on a short loan spell to gain match practice. At the start of the 2007 Allsvenskan season, he was again loaned out to Superettan club GIF Sundsvall.

In February 2008, he signed a two-year contract with Finnish Veikkausliiga club MyPa.

[edit] International career

For Estonia, Neemelo is capped 20 times, scoring 1 goal. He debuted internationally in 2005 and scored his first goal on May 28, 2006 against Turkey in a Friendly match.