Pasi Rautiainen

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Pasi Rautiainen
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Rautiainen in 2016
Personal information
Full name Pasi Pentti Rautiainen
Date of birth (1961-07-18) 18 July 1961 (age 63)
Place of birth Helsinki, Finland
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
PK-35
HPS
HJK
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1978–1979 HJK 49 (9)
1980–1981 Bayern Munich 1 (0)
1981–1982 Werder Bremen 41 (2)
1982–1986 Arminia Bielefeld 113 (16)
1986–1987 Locarno 14 (0)
1987–1989 SG Wattenscheid 09 13 (0)
1989–1993 HJK 58 (13)
International career
1979–1987 Finland 29 (1)
Managerial career
1994–1998 PK-35
1999–2000 Jokerit
2001 KooTeePee
2001–2002 Levadia Maardu
2002–2003 Jokerit
2006–2008 Flora
2008–2010 TPS
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pasi Pentti Rautiainen (born 18 July 1961) is a Finnish football manager and former player. He made 29 appearances for Finland national football team, scoring one goal.

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Playing career

Rautiainen was very talented as a young player, and he joined Bayern Munich at the age of just 18 in 1980. [1] He only made one appearance for the club, but was still named German champion with Bayern in the 1980–81 season. Rautiainen later made 115 appearances in the Bundesliga for Werder Bremen (1981–82) and Arminia Bielefeld (1982–1985), scoring 14 goals. He also played in the 2. Bundesliga for Bielefeld and SG Wattenscheid 09. [2] In Finland Rautiainen played for HJK Helsinki, winning the Finnish championship in 1978 and 1990. He also earned 25 caps for the Finland national football team, scoring once. 1982 the sports journalists of his home country elected him Finnish Footballer of the Year. [3]

Managerial career

Rautiainen started coaching the first team of his former youth club PK-35 in 1994. [4] He helped the club to win back-to-back promotions to Veikkausliiga for the 1998 season. He has also coached Jokerit and KooTeePee in Finland, and Levadia and Flora in Estonia. His last club was Turun Palloseura (TPS). [5]

Later career

Rautiainen is also a popular football pundit in Finland. He's known for his energetic and enthusiastic behavior when talking about anything concerning football. He commented UEFA Champions League games for the TV channel Nelonen. In the 2003–04 season, he promised he'd walk from Helsinki to Porvoo (some 50 kilometres) if Deportivo were able to knock A.C. Milan out in the quarter finals which indeed happened. He never wore socks even when live on TV. He was also featured on the broadcasts of Estonian channel ETV during the 2006 World Cup. Now he works as a studio commentator in Finland's national team matches. He also continues to work as studio commentator for Champions League and English Premier League broadcasts for Viaplay.

Career statistics

As of 7 May 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueDomestic Cups [a] EuropeTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
HJK 1978 Mestaruussarja ––
1979 Mestaruussarja1 [b] 1
1980 Mestaruussarja
Total49900115010
Bayern Munich 1980–81 Bundesliga 1000–10
Werder Bremen 1980–81 2. Bundesliga Nord 151––151
1981–82 Bundesliga261405 [c] 2353
Total4124052504
Arminia Bielefeld 1982–83 Bundesliga334414 [c] 0515
1983–84 Bundesliga271206 [c] 4355
1984–85 Bundesliga31810–328
1985–86 2. Bundesliga 243004 [c] 3286
Total115167114713624
FC Locarno 1986–87 Swiss Nationalliga A 140101 [b] 0160
SG Wattenscheid 09 1987–88 2. Bundesliga70––70
1988–89 2. Bundesliga60––60
Total1300000130
HJK 1990 Veikkausliiga 299002 [b] 0319
1991 Veikkausliiga123001 [b] 0133
1994 Veikkausliiga40000040
Total451200304812
Career total27639121241031251

Honours

Individual

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References

  1. ↑ "Pasi Rautiainen" (in German). Peter Böhm. Archived from the original on 9 June 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  2. ↑ "Pasi Rautiainen" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  3. ↑ Pasi Rautiaisen uran KAIKKI maalit Bundesliigassa!, viaplay
  4. ↑ "Pasi Rautiainen pyöräretkellä" (in Finnish). yle.fi. 21 June 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  5. ↑ "Pasi Rautiainen ei jatka TPS-luotsina" (in Finnish). yle.fi. Retrieved 20 February 2010.[ dead link ]
  6. ↑ TPS:n Lehtovaarasta Kuukauden pelaaja heinäkuussa Archived 2012-06-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
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