Tuomas Rannankari

Tuomas Rannankari (born 21 May 1991, Kuopio ) is a Finnish football players. He plays in defense, primarily as a full-back.

Career

Association

Rannankari began in the youth of the Finnish first division Kuopio PS with the football games. At the start of the 2008 season, he managed the age of seventeen the leap into the professional squad. On 16 September 2008, the 28th round of the 2008 season, he came to his first pro game, as he stood in the home game against Rovaniemen Palloseura ( 0:1) in the starting lineup. As he came in the 2008 season as a reserve player only to use one, he was in the 2009 first-team regular.

Because of this strong development of the Dutch first division side FC Twente Enschede noticed him and signed him in early July 2009. He signed a three-year contract until end of June 2012, however, where it was used only in the second team of the first division. In May 2012, the club announced that the contract would not be renewed.

In July 2012, Rannankari was committed by the German first division club SpVgg Greuther Fürth, after he had recommended in the trial. However, he was again only the second team in the Regionalliga Bayern committed to where he is to be recommended for the first team. He signed a one year contract until the end of June 2013. The contract with SpVgg Greuther Fürth was not renewed. In the summer of 2013 he returned to his original club Kuopio PS.

National

Rannankari went through from the U-15 all youth national teams of the Finnish Football Association. After he had shown in the U -21 good performance, he was nominated in May 2012 from the National coach Mixu Paatelainen for the Finnish national team. On May 26, 2012, he came in the game against Turkey ( 3-2 ) in Salzburg for his debut in the national team when he came on in the 90th minute for Timo Furuholm.