Aleksandar Janković

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Aleksandar Janković
Personnel
birthday May 6, 1972
place of birth BelgradeSFR Yugoslavia
Juniors
Years station
1982-1991 FK Red Star Belgrade
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-1992 Bonnyrigg White Eagles
1992-1994 AS Cherbourg
1994-1995 FC Pau
Kansas City Wizards
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1999-2001 FK Red Star Belgrade (assistant coach)
2002-2003 Levski Sofia (assistant coach)
2003-2004 FK Red Star Belgrade (assistant coach)
2004-2005 Metalurh Donetsk (assistant coach)
2005 SC Lokeren (Assistant Trainer)
2006 Lokomotiv Moscow (assistant coach)
2006-2007 SC Lokeren (Assistant Trainer)
2007-2008 FK Red Star Belgrade
2009 SC Lokeren
2010–2012 Serbia U-21
2012-2013 FK Red Star Belgrade
2014-2016 KV Mechelen
2016-2017 Standard Liege
2017-2018 KV Mechelen
2018– China U-20 B
1 Only league games are given.

Aleksandar Janković ( Serbian Александар Јанковић; born May 6, 1972 in Belgrade ) is a former Serbian football player and today's coach .

Player career

As a player, Janković moved from the youth division of FK Red Star Belgrade to the Bonnyrigg White Eagles in Australia. He then played in France for AS Cherbourg and FC Pau . At Pau he played for the first time under his later coaching colleague Slavoljub Muslin . At the age of 28 he had to end his career with the Kansas City Wizards because of a serious knee injury .

Coaching career

Until his first head coaching position, Janković was always the assistant coach of Slavoljub Muslin. He first followed him to his youth club FK Red Star Belgrade , where he won the championship twice and the cup once. At Levski Sofia both could win the national double. After Belgrade had two less successful seasons, they signed the coaching team again and the club won the championship again. Janković also worked as Muslin's assistant trainer at Metalurh Donetsk , SC Lokeren and Lokomotiv Moscow . On July 3, 2007, the Serb was initially scout of FK Red Star Belgrade and only a few months later he took over the post of head coach from the dismissed Milorad Kosanović. After the 2007/08 season, Red Star could not win a national title again and Janković was replaced by the Czech Zdeněk Zeman . From April to October 2009 he coached the Belgian first division club SC Lokeren , where he already worked twice as an assistant coach.

In November 2010 Janković took over the coaching position for the Serbian U-21 national team . Many later professional players played in the team such as B. Matija Nastasić , Slobodan Medojević or Miloš Jojić . Despite 18 points from eight games and the sovereign group victory, he failed with the team in the qualification for the U-21 European Football Championship 2013 in the decisive play-off games with two 0-1 defeats against England . After the resignation of Robert Prosinečki , Janković was again coach at Red Star Belgrade on August 21, 2012. But just like his predecessor, he could not prevent the successful streak of local rivals FK Partizan Belgrade and their sixth championship title in a row. Before the end of the season he was replaced in March 2013 by the Portuguese Ricardo Sá Pinto .

After a break, Janković returned to Belgium in May 2014 and became a coach at the first division club KV Mechelen . At the beginning of the 2016/17 season he was hired by league rival Standard Liège as a coach. Before the end of the season, he was released after two points from three games during the play-off phase. After Yannick Ferrera, originally Janković's successor, was dismissed from Mechelen in October 2017, the Serb took over the club's coaching position again a week later. After just ten points from ten games, he was dismissed in January 2018.

In September 2018, Janković went to the Chinese Football Association and became part of the renowned coaching staff around Marcello Lippi (men) and Guus Hiddink (U-21). The Serb is the coach of the newly formed B-selection of the U-20 national team .

Others

Aleksandar Janković is married and has two children. His father Dobrivoje "Bobi" Janković is a well-known sports journalist in Serbia.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jankovic new coach at Red Star Belgrade ( Memento from November 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Red Star dismisses trainers ( Memento from September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ "Serbian Mourinho" for Lokeren (www.grenzecho.net, April 8, 2009)