Jari Litmanen Acrylic Print

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Realistic acrylic painting of the greatest Finnish soccer player, Jari Litmanen, painted by the Dutch fine artist paul Meijering - the Original painting is 120 x 90 cm and for sale

Jari Olavi Litmanen (born 20 February 1971 in Lahti) is a Finnish former footballer. He was the first-choice captain of the Finland national football team between 1996￿2008 in an international career that ran from 1989 to 2010.

He is widely considered to be Finland's greatest football player of all time. He was chosen as the best Finnish player of the last 50 years by the Football Association of Finland in the UEFA Jubilee Awards in November 2003. Litmanen also finished 42nd in the 100 Greatest Finns voting in 2004. The Association of Football Statisticians' (The AFS) compendium of 'Greatest Ever Footballers' listed Litmanen as the 53rd best footballer ever

For almost 33 years now, Paul Meijering has been active with the paint brushes. As a 17- year old inspired youngster he joined the Academy of Arts in Enschede (Holland) in order to receive a native training in drawing- and painting technique. At that time (1980) the tendency of the abstract was running riot, and to his dismay and disappointment Paul found that the trade of the ancient masters was merely 'old hat', the realistic art being disregarded and looked down upon. After two years of useless botchery, there was only one conclusion to draw: "get autodidact, be a self-taught person!" Paul then left the academy to work for a living, but at the back of his mind there always loomed the passion of his life: to paint. At his spare time...