1999年夏天,当霍利尔以300万英镑的价格从荷兰威廉二世队买入名不见经传的芬兰人海皮亚时,许多人都认为霍利尔疯了,在大多数人的印象中,芬兰人只会打冰球,对于足球一窍不通。而霍利尔并不在乎旁人的想法,他坚信海皮亚将成为他后防线上的一枚重要的棋子,那些仔细翻阅过海皮亚履历的人也意识到芬兰人的潜力。1992年,海皮亚的职业生涯开始于芬兰一个不起眼的小球会米帕47队,职业生涯的第一年,海皮亚就跟随米帕夺得了球队历史上第一樽冠军奖杯——芬兰杯。在天寒地冻的芬兰联赛中比赛是对于意志的一种磨练,在 In the summer of 1999, when Hollíg bought Netherlandian Hyypia from Netherlandian Wilhelm II for £ 3 million, many felt that Hollír was insane, in most people’s minds , Finns will only play ice hockey, know nothing about football. Holliday, however, did not care about the ideas of others. He firmly believed that Hyypia would become an important pawn in his defensive line and those who read through the history of Hyypia carefully recognized the potential of Finns. In 1992, Hyypia’s career began in Finland an inconspicuous small club Mipa 47 team, the first year of his career, Hyypia followed Mica won the first team in the history of the first trophy - Finland cup. In the freezing cold of the Finnish league match is a temper of the will