Pascal Mendy is a Senegalese footballer

Football (soccer)

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 currently playing as a defender

Defender (football)

Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....

 for Dinamo Brest

FC Dinamo Brest

FC Dinamo Brest is a Belarusian football club based in Brest. They play in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football.-Name changes:*1960: founded as Spartak Brest*1972: renamed to Bug Brest...

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A former Dynamo Moscow

FC Dynamo Moscow

Dynamo Moscow is a Russian football club based in Moscow, currently playing in the Russian Premier League. Dynamo's traditional kit colours are blue and white...

 player and an illegal player in the Moscow Expat Football League, Mendy signed for Kaunas in February 2007 on the understanding that he will eventually be loaned to Scottish

Scotland

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 club Hearts

Heart of Midlothian F.C.

Heart of Midlothian Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Gorgie, in the west of Edinburgh. They currently play in the Scottish Premier League and are one of the two principal clubs in the city, the other being Hibernian...

. Lithuanian-Russia

Russia

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n businessman Vladimir Romanov

Vladimir Romanov

Vladimir Nikolayevich Romanov ; born 1947 in Tver Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR) is an ethnic Russian businessman who also holds Lithuanian citizenship following that country's independence from the Soviet Union. He is chairman of UBIG Investments which is the majority shareholder in Scottish Premier...

 finances both clubs and a number of Kaunas players have already moved to Hearts in this manner

FBK Kaunas to Hearts

Loan moves from Lithuanian football club FBK Kaunas to Scottish Premier League club Hearts have proved controversial in Scottish football. Both clubs are controlled by businessman Vladimir Romanov and the comparatively large number of such loans is seen by some as a bending of the loan transfer rules...

. After Kaunas was demoted from A Lyga

A Lyga

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, Mendy joined the Belarusian Premier League

Belarusian Premier League

-Soviet era champions:*1934 BVO *1935 BVO *1936 BVO *1937 Dinamo *1938 Dinamo *1939 Dinamo *1940 DKA *1941-44 unknown...

 side Partizan Minsk, another club owned by Romanov.

At the start of the 2006-2007 season, Mendy played for Maltese side Birkirkara FC in the Euro Challenge Cup, but was released after a single game.

External links

• Appearances at national-football-teams.com