Pasi Pentti Rautiainen (born 18 July 1961) is Finnish

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manager and former player. He has coached PK-35,

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and

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in Finland and

FC Levadia Tallinn Football Club Infonet Levadia Tallinn, commonly known as FCI Levadia, or simply as Levadia, is a professional football club based in Tallinn, Estonia, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home groun ...

and

FC Flora Tallinn FC Flora, commonly known as Flora Tallinn, or simply as Flora, is a professional football club based in Tallinn, Estonia, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home ground is Lilleküla Stadium. Fo ...

in Estonia. His last club was TPS. Rautiainen was very talented as a young player, and he joined

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at the age of just 18 in 1980. 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

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for

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(1981–82) and

Arminia Bielefeld DSC Arminia Bielefeld (; full name: ; commonly known as Arminia Bielefeld (), also known as ''Die Arminen'' or ''Die Blauen'' ), or just Arminia (), is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of ...

(1982–1985), scoring 14 goals. He also played in the 2. Bundesliga for Bielefeld and

SG Wattenscheid 09 SG Wattenscheid 09 is a German association football club located in Wattenscheid, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club claimed an official founding date of 18 September 1909 as Ballspiel-Verein Wattenscheid out of the merger of two earlier ...

. In Finland Rautiainen played for

HJK Helsinki Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (), commonly known as HJK Helsinki, or simply as HJK, is a professional football club based in Helsinki, Finland. The club competes in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. Founded in 1907, the club has spent most of its history ...

, winning the Finnish championship in 1978 and 1990. He also earned 25 caps for the

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, scoring once. 1982 the sports journalists of his home country elected him

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. 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

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games for the TV channel

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. In the 2003–04 season, he promised he'd walk from

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(some 50 kilometres) if Deportivo were able to knock

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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

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during the

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. 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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rautiainen, Pasi 1961 births Living people Footballers from Helsinki Finnish footballers Finnish expatriate footballers Finland international footballers Finnish football managers Association football midfielders Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players FC Bayern Munich footballers SV Werder Bremen players Arminia Bielefeld players SG Wattenscheid 09 players Expatriate footballers in Germany Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Germany FC Flora managers FCI Levadia Tallinn managers TPS Turku football managers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Expatriate football managers in Estonia 21st-century Finnish people