Aleksandar Janković
Personal information
Full name	Aleksandar Janković
Date of birth	May 6, 1972 (1972-05-06) (age 37)
Place of birth	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Club information
Current club	SC Lokeren (manager)
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
	Red Star Belgrade Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC AS Cherbourg Pau FC Kansas City Wizards
Teams managed
1999-2001 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005 2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 04/2009-10/2009	Red Star Belgrade (assistant manager) Levski Sofia (assistant manager) Red Star Belgrade (assistant manager) Metalurh Donetsk (assistant manager) SC Lokeren (assistant manager) Lokomotiv Moscow (assistant manager) SC Lokeren (assistant manager) Red Star Belgrade SC Lokeren
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 October 2009. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 25 October 2009. * Appearances (Goals)

Aleksandar Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Јанковић) (born May 6, 1972 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian football coach and former player.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching Career 2.1 Red Star head coach 2.2 Lokeren 3 Personal 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Playing career

He played football professionally for Red Star Belgrade in Serbia, Bonnyrigg White Eagles Football Club in Australia, AS Cherbourg Football and Pau FC in France, and Kansas City Wizards in the United States, before ending his playing career aged 28, due to a knee injury.

[edit] Coaching Career

While playing at Pau FC, Janković met his compatriot, coach Slavoljub Muslin who would turn out to be an important figure for his eventual venture into coaching. Following the injury that forced him to end his playing career, Janković came into the Red Star organization (club coached by Muslin at the time) in an adviser-scout role during the early 2000. At the end of the 2000-01 season that saw Red Star win another league title (after winning the league and cup double the previous season), Ratko Dostanić, Muslin's assistant, took the head coaching job at FK Obilić, and Muslin offered the vacated place to Janković who thus became Red Star's assistant coach on July 5, 2001 at the age of 29.^[1]

However, Janković wouldn't get to stay at his new job for long as very early into the 2001-02 season Muslin abruptly resigned as head coach after the Champions' League qualifying first leg loss to Bayer Leverkusen and Janković left as well.

In March 2002, Muslin resurfaced as head coach at Levski Sofia and Janković followed him there to be his assistant. In April 2003, Muslin got the sack and Janković left again as well.

Couple of months later, during summer 2003 offseason, the duo returned to their old stomping grounds at Red Star. After Zoran Filipović got sacked, Muslin got the head coaching job, and, Janković, by now his established second-in-command, was on his way to Belgrade as well.

From there Janković followed Muslin to Metalurh Donetsk, Lokeren, Lokomotiv Moscow, and back to Lokeren, respectively.

From July 2007, he has been an advance scout in Red Star, and his duties mainly included scouting opponents' players and tactics.

[edit] Red Star head coach

After Milorad Kosanović's resignation November 9, 2007, Janković was appointed new head coach of Red Star. Yet, after failing to earn a title in the national championship or in the national cup, he was fired June 11, 2008, to be replaced by Zdeněk Zeman.

Janković has since been appointed head of the Red Star Belgrade Football School. ^[2]

[edit] Lokeren

On April 6, 2009 he has been named the new SC Lokeren coach, the Serbian signed until June 2010 and replaces Georges Leekens^[3]. On 25 october 2009 Janković was fired after a series of bad results.

[edit] Personal

Aleksandar is married and has two children. His father is a notable Serbian sports journalist Dobrivoje "Bobi" Janković. He has been dubbed as "Serbian Mourinho" due to his charisma and cult status he has enjoyed among the players and fans.^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Career Statistics at OzFootball
• Profile at Red Star website
• An interview with Aleksandar Janković (Serbian)

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