Maximo Tolonen

{{short description|Finnish footballer (born 2001)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox football biography |name = Maximo Tolonen |image = |fullname = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|2001|3|4|df=y}} |birth_place = Espoo, Finland |height = |position = Midfielder |currentclub = PK-35 |clubnumber = 19 |youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = Rangers |youthyears2 = |youthclubs2 = Hibernian |youthyears3 = |youthclubs3 = Honka |years1 = 2016–2017 |clubs1 = Honka |caps1 = 25 |goals1 = 2 |years2 = 2018–2019 |clubs2 = SJK |caps2 = 30 |goals2 = 1 |years3 = 2018–2019 |clubs3 = SJK II |caps3 = 14 |goals3 = 8 |years4 = 2020 |clubs4 = IFK Mariehamn |caps4 = 20 |goals4 = 0 |years5 = 2021 |clubs5 = Ilves |caps5 = 0 |goals5 = 0 |years6 = 2021–2023 |clubs6 = Gnistan |caps6 = 66 |goals6 = 5 |years7 = 2024 |clubs7 = KäPa |caps7 = 25 |goals7 = 3 |years8 = 2025– |clubs8 = PK-35 |caps8 = 20 |goals8 = 4 |club-update = 24 November 2025 }} '''Maximo Tolonen''' (born 4 March 2001) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ykkösliiga club PK-35.<ref>{{soccerway|maximo-tolonen/444776|accessdate=19 May 2023}}</ref><ref>[https://kapylanpalloedustus.fi/uutiset/2024/maximo-tolonen-siirtyy-kapylaan Maximo Tolonen siirtyy Käpylään], kapylanpalloedustus.fi, 24 January 2024</ref>

==Career== Tolonen was born to a Finnish father and an Argentine mother. He grew up in Espoo, but moved to Cambridge in England when he was five years old. The family lived for one-and-a-half years in Cambridge before moving back to Espoo.<ref name=ft>[https://www.iltalehti.fi/jalkapallo/a/201704072200096513 Tiesitkö hänet? Maximo Tolonen, 16, on yksi Suomen lupaavimmista jalkapalloilijoista - vankka kielitaito jo valmiina], iltalehti.fi, 4 August 2017</ref> Tolonen is fluent in Finnish, Spanish because his mother is Argentine, and English because he lived in England and Scotland.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/jalkapallo/a/201704072200096513 |title=Tiesitkö hänet? Maximo Tolonen, 16, on yksi Suomen lupaavimmista jalkapalloilijoista - vankka kielitaito jo valmiina |last1=Laitinen |first1=Ilkka |date=7 April 2017 |website=Iltalehti |language=fi |access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref>

At the age of 10, in 2011, Tolonen moved to Scotland with his family. He began playing for Rangers. The club later offered him a contract, but he declined, because it was to far away from where he lived in Edinburgh.<ref name=ft/> He then moved to Hibernian. Two years later, the Tolonen family moved back to Finland and joined FC Honka.{{cn|date=November 2021}}

He left SJK at the end of the 2019 season.<ref>{{cite news|title=Maximo Tolonen jättää SJK:n|url=https://www.sjk.fi/w/maximo-tolonen-jattaa-sjk-n|publisher=sjk.fi|accessdate=2 December 2019|archive-date=7 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207040725/http://www.sjk.fi/w/maximo-tolonen-jattaa-sjk-n|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 3 December 2019, it was confirmed that Tolonen would join IFK Mariehamn for the 2020 season, signing a one-year deal with an option for one further year.<ref>[https://yle.fi/urheilu/3-11100462 IFK Mariehamn hankki poikien maajoukkueen vakiokasvon], yle.fi, 3 December 2019</ref>

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