Pasi Rautiainen

Pasi Rautiainen

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*
Years	Team	Apps	(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.

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.

Personal life

His father Pentti Rautiainen  [ fi ] and sister Jutta are former footballers and managers.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Domestic Cups [a]		Europe		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
HJK	1978	Mestaruussarja			–		–
	1979	Mestaruussarja					1 [b]	1
	1980	Mestaruussarja
	Total		49	9	0	0	1	1	50	10
Bayern Munich	1980–81	Bundesliga	1	0	0	0	–		1	0
Werder Bremen	1980–81	2. Bundesliga Nord	15	1	–		–		15	1
	1981–82	Bundesliga	26	1	4	0	5 [c]	2	35	3
	Total		41	2	4	0	5	2	50	4
Arminia Bielefeld	1982–83	Bundesliga	33	4	4	1	4 [c]	0	51	5
	1983–84	Bundesliga	27	1	2	0	6 [c]	4	35	5
	1984–85	Bundesliga	31	8	1	0	–		32	8
	1985–86	2. Bundesliga	24	3	0	0	4 [c]	3	28	6
	Total		115	16	7	1	14	7	136	24
FC Locarno	1986–87	Swiss Nationalliga A	14	0	1	0	1 [b]	0	16	0
SG Wattenscheid 09	1987–88	2. Bundesliga	7	0	–		–		7	0
	1988–89	2. Bundesliga	6	0	–		–		6	0
	Total		13	0	0	0	0	0	13	0
HJK	1990	Veikkausliiga	29	9	0	0	2 [b]	0	31	9
	1991	Veikkausliiga	12	3	0	0	1 [b]	0	13	3
	1994	Veikkausliiga	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
	Total		45	12	0	0	3	0	48	12
Career total			276	39	12	1	24	10	312	51

1. Includes Suomen Cup, DFB-Pokal and Swiss Cup
2. Includes European Cup
3. Includes UEFA Intertoto Cup

International goals

As of match played 26 October 1979. Finland score listed first, score column indicates score after each Rautiainen goal.

List of international goals scored by Pasi Rautiainen

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	26 October 1979	Stavanger Stadion, Stavanger, Norway	Norway	1–1	1–1	Friendly

Honours

Individual

• Veikkausliiga Coach of the Month: July 2009 ^[6]

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)