Jann Ingi Petersen (born 7 January 1984) is a
Faroese football
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midfielder. He is currently under contract with
B68 Toftir
B68 Toftir is a Faroese football club, playing in the village of Toftir in Betri deildin.
History
After being promoted to the 1. deild (now called Effodeildin) in 1980, they won the league 3 times: in 1984, 1985, and 1992. In 2004 they were ...
. He usually plays as controlling
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Petersen is specialised in both
penalty kick
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s and
free kicks.
He has been capped for the
Faroe Islands national team 23 times.
External links
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Jann Ingi Petersen at NSÍ Runavík
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Living people
1984 births
Faroese men's footballers
Faroe Islands men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
NSÍ Runavík players
B68 Toftir players
Faroe Islands men's youth international footballers
Fremad Amager players
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