Petri Pasanen (born 24 September 1980 in Lahti) is a Finnish footballer who plays for Werder Bremen in the German Bundesliga. He is a defender who is most comfortable in central defense, but can play as well at right back and left back.
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.
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Petri Pasanen (born 24 September 1980 in Lahti) is a Finnish footballer who plays for Werder Bremen in the German Bundesliga. He is a defender who is most comfortable in central defense, but can play as well at right back and left back.
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 Portsmouth in the English Premier League. Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp was interested in...
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