Antti Niemi is back in football in his native Finland.

The former Liverpool, Fulham and Southampton goalkeeper is working at national team level.

"I'm now working in Finland as goalkeeping coach to the senior national team," he explained to fulhamfc.com. "Obviously we're a pretty small footballing nation and our Football Association is not massive but anything to do with goalkeeping I'm always there!

"I spend about 70 days a year with the senior national team, obviously travelling, in hotels and preparing for the games. There's also office-based work and the production of material for coaching and education purposes. We have goalkeeping seminars and lots of other things going on and I probably work in football roughly about 150 days a year.

"With the senior national team I'm working with goalkeepers who are pretty much the finished article. They're over 20 years of age and have their own style. My role is more about preparing them for the games. You don't want to do too much coaching but obviously there are things you need to point out every now and then.

"For example, how they play as individuals and what they can expect from the teams we're facing. I wouldn't call it coaching - it's more about preparing for the matches and I hope my experience playing at a high level is proving beneficial."