Dime Jankulovski

Dime Jankulovski
Personnel
birthday	June 18, 1977
place of birth	Gothenburg ,  Sweden
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	Rannebergens IF
1991-1992	GAIS
1993-1996	Lundby IF
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1996-1997	Lundby IF
1998-2000	Västra Frölunda IF	56 (0)
2001	AIK	11 (0)
2002	IK start	14 (0)
2003-2004	IFK Norrköping	13 (0)
2003	→  Örgryte IS  (loan)	4 (0)
2004	→  Raufoss IL  (loan)	19 (0)
2005–2012	GAIS	200 (0)
2014	BK hooks	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
	Sweden U-21	9 (0)
2000	Sweden	1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2013	GAIS (trainer assistant)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 30, 2014 2 As of March 30, 2014

Dime Jankulovski (born June 18, 1977 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish football player with Macedonian ancestors. The goalkeeper , who made an international appearance for the Swedish national team in 2000 , has played in Sweden and Norway in his career so far.

Career

Career start

Jankulovski started playing football in his youth at Rannebergens IF . In 1991 he moved to the youth department of GAIS , where he stayed for two years. He then joined the youth of Lundby IF . In 1996 he made his debut for the then second-rate club in the men's team, but rose with her at the end of the season in the third-rate Division 2 Västra Götaland . With the club, he managed to get promoted as a season winner straight away and attracted high-class attention.

Those in charge of the first division club Västra Frölunda IF steered Jankulovski into the Allsvenskan within Gothenburg . In the 1998 season he made his first division debut and reached fifth place in the table with the club. As a regular goalkeeper, he convinced the national coaching duo Tommy Söderberg and Lars Lagerbäck , who appointed him at the end of 1999 as a goalkeeper alongside Eddie Gustafsson for the opening international matches of the Swedish national team in 2000.

National team debut and international experience

On February 4, 2000 Jankulovski was in the 1-1 draw against the Norwegian national team at the side of Klebér Saarenpää , Anders Svensson , Teddy Lučić , Andreas Andersson and Roland Nilsson in the post of the national team goal and was only overcome by John Carew . The following season was unsuccessful for him. With the team around George Mourad and Fredrik Björck only get three wins of the season, so that Västra Frölunda IF relegated bottom of the table.

Jankulovski then moved to AIK within Allsvenskan . There he was behind Daniel Andersson , who made his debut for the national team in early 2001, initially a substitute goalkeeper. In the summer, coach Olle Nordin decided to change goalkeeper, so that Jankulovski celebrated his competitive debut for the club from Solna in the Intertoto Cup game against the Welsh club Carmarthen Town , which ended 0-0. As a result, he established himself as a regular and played in the Allsvenskan eleven games in a row, in which the club did not lose. In mid-September he injured himself in the local derby against Djurgårdens IF and then lost his regular place to Andersson.

After only one season Jankulovski left the club and moved to Norway to IK Start . There he signed a two-year contract. After only one year abroad, however, he returned because he could not permanently prevail against his competitor Rune Meås Nilssen , and moved to IFK Norrköping in the Superettan . After the first half of the series, he moved on on loan and came under the first division club Örgryte IS . After he was a substitute for IFK Norrköping in the following season, he left the club again on loan in the summer. The next game station was the Norwegian second division team Raufoss IL .

Return to Sweden

In 2005 Jankulovski returned to Sweden again and signed a contract with his former youth station GAIS. At Gothenburg's second division, he immediately established himself as a regular player and was a guarantee that the club occupied the relegation place in the second division season in 2005 and then made it back to the Allsvenskan in the duels against Landskrona BoIS . After he had contributed to relegation as a long-running hit in all 26 games, he was voted Player of the Year at his club following the 2006 season . At the side of players like Bobbie Friberg Da Cruz , Fredrik Lundgren , Richard Ekunde and Kenneth Gustafsson , he was one of the pillars of the team under coach Roland Nilsson and his successors Magnus Pehrsson and Alexander Axén .

In the following years, Jankulovski was a regular in the goal of the Gothenburg club, with whom he had established himself in the first division. Even after the club had signed a competitor with the former Finnish national goalkeeper Henri Sillanpää before the 2010 season, he was in 28 games between the posts during the season. Finally, the goalkeeper extended his contract at the beginning of 2011 until 2013. Due to an injury, however, he had to partially pass in the following season after a meniscus injury. After his recovery he returned in August, but after a few mistakes his substitute Sillanpää was back in goal in autumn. In preparation for the 2012 season , he suffered a knee injury in training a few days before the first game of the season. In the summer he returned to the field for the club in relegation battle when he came on for the injured Sillanpää in the 2-0 loss to Malmö FF in July. By the end of the season, he completed 16 league games, as bottom of the table, the club rose to the second division.

After the end of the 2012 season, Jankulovski ended his active career after 200 league games for GAIS and switched to the Gothenburg club's coaching staff as assistant to Thomas Askebrand . After the re-promotion was clearly missed as seventh in the table, the club and its sporting leadership reorganized. As a result, Jankulovski left the club after just under a year at the end of November 2013 in the dugout.

At the end of March 2014, Jankulovski resumed his active career when he joined Gothenburg's first division club BK Häcken as the third goalkeeper until July of that year , in order to complete the squad when the young talent Teodor Söderberg was injured .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ vg.no: "Jankulovski til Start" (accessed on February 12, 2010)
2. ↑ svenskafans.com: "Dime förlänger till 2013 - och så lånar GAIS från Elfsborg" (accessed on March 16, 2011)
3. ↑ matchdax.se: "Jankulovski tvingad till operation" (accessed on July 31, 2012)
4. ↑ expressen.se: "Knäskadan stoppar Jankulovski i genrepet" (accessed on July 31, 2012)
5. ↑ gais.se: "Dime blir assisterande och Jonas Lundén sportchef" ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 30, 2014)  
6. ↑ gais.se: "GAIS och Dime Jankulovski går skilda vägar" ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 30, 2014)  
7. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Gais-profil gör comeback - i Häcken" (accessed on March 30, 2014)

Web links

• Entry at GAIS