Petri Pasanen
Pasanen with Red Bull Salzburg in July 2011
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| Date of birth | 24 September 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lahti, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | FC Kuusysi | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2000 | FC Lahti | 72 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | → FC Hämeenlinna (loan) | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | → FC Hämeenlinna (loan) | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Ajax | 59 | (7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | → Portsmouth (loan) | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2011 | Werder Bremen | 144 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Red Bull Salzburg | 18 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | AGF | 44 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | FC Lahti | 30 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 386 | (15) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2000 | Finland U21 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2013 | Finland | 76 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Petri Pasanen (born 24 September 1980) is a Finnish former professional football defender. He was most comfortable in central defense, but also played right back and left back as well. Pasanen was born in Lahti, Finland where he played for the local teams before moving to Ajax.
Pasanen became a regular for Lahti during the club's promotion season in 1998. During the next two seasons he made 42 appearances for the club in Finland's Veikkausliiga.
Many of Europe's top clubs had become interested in the promising Pasanen, and in the summer of 2000 he joined Dutch club Ajax. He became a regular in the Ajax defense in his first season, but his progress was halted when he broke his foot in August 2001, and had to miss most of the 2001–02 season. Next season he was a regular again as Ajax reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.
He fell out of favour at Ajax in 2003–04, and spent the second half of the season on loan at English club Portsmouth in the Premier League. Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp was interested in purchasing Pasanen at the end of the season, but claimed Ajax's asking price was too high.
Pasanen was then signed by reigning German champions Werder Bremen in the summer of 2004. He has become a key player for the club, helping them to a top three finish in the Bundesliga and the second round of the Champions League in each of his first two seasons at the club. Whilst at Bremen he played in the 2009 UEFA Cup Final.
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