Career
As a junior Lehtinen played for Jyväskylän Jalkapalloklubi. He made his first-team debut in Finland"s top division Veikkausliiga for Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi in 1997. He played only two games before moving to Sheffield United.
He played only in youth and reserve team matches for Sheffield United.
In December 1998 Lehtinen returned to Finland and practised with Football Club Inter Turku. Inter and Lehtinen had some controversy regarding the contract between them.
Inter claimed that Lehtinen was only for trial in the team, but Lehtinen claimed he had signed a one-year contract with Inter. In 2000 he played with Pallo-Iirot from Rauma.
In 2001 Lehtinen joined Tampere United.
During the season 2002 he moved to Norwegian F.K. Bodø/Glimt. He spent three years in Norway before returning to Finland and Air Corps Allianssi. After Allianssi was drifted to match fixing scandal, Lehtinen returned to Tampere United during the season.
After the season he traveled to England doing trials for many clubs like Leeds United and also tried to sign contract with Football Club Honka from Espoo.
However no contract was made and Lehtinen decided to end his football career and concentrate on his job as an investment manager. In July 2007 Lehtinen decided come back to football fields.
He played two games in Atlantis Football Club in Ykkönen (the second tier) before the contract with Veikkausliiga team Air Corps Oulu was announced. He is also a musician and his first single Naapurintyttö was released in 2006.
Many Finnish radio stations have played his music
