article_snippet: What’s the strangest thing that’s ever happened to you during a game?
article_snippet: It was during a qualifying match for Finland.
article_snippet: We were playing against Serbia in the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki when a game was held up for five or six minutes by an eagle owl, which was nested in the stands, decided it was going to fly up and down the pitch and land on the crossbar.
article_snippet: it was an amazing sight because these birds are really, really big.
article_snippet: it made a game all that more interesting for the spectators and luckily We won and the eagle owl was adopted as a mascot by the Finnish national team afterwards.