V. Saravanan

V. Saravanan (born 11 January 1978) is a former Malaysian football player. He currently works as an assistant coach for Perak FC since 5 January 2023.

Career
Saravanan spent the majority of his football career at Perak FA, winning two Malaysia Cup in 1998 and 2000. He also played for Kuala Lumpur FA, UPB-MyTeam FC, ATM FA and PKNS FC.

Saravanan also represented Malaysia 19 times from 1999 to 2004. His only international goals was against Thailand in a 2004 friendly match. Early on in his career, he was in the Malaysia national under-21 football team that competes in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship, held in Malaysia.

He retired from professional football at the end of 2011 to move with his girlfriend to Finland.

In 2021, he obtained his UEFA A license and was a physical education instructor in Pajulahti, Finland.

He is fluent in Finnish, English, Malay and Tamil.

Prior to moving to Malaysia, he was a football coach for Helsinki Football Club (HJK) in Helsinki, Finland, in 2019 and served IF GNISTAN between 2012 and 2018.

Personal life
He married his long-time girlfriend, Satu Johanna Ekholm, who is a physiotherapist from Finland working with the National Sports Council of Malaysia. They have a son.