Personal information | |||
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Full name | Aleksandar Janković | ||
Date of birth | May 6, 1972 | ||
Place of birth | Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Standard Liège (manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
1982–1991 | Red Star Belgrade | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992 | Bonnyrigg White Eagles | 8 | (0) |
1992–1994 | AS Cherbourg | ||
1994–1995 | Pau FC | ||
Kansas City Wizards | |||
Teams managed | |||
1999–2001 | Red Star Belgrade (assistant) | ||
2002–2003 | Levski Sofia (assistant) | ||
2003–2004 | Red Star Belgrade (assistant) | ||
2004–2005 | Metalurh Donetsk (assistant) | ||
2005 | SC Lokeren (assistant) | ||
2006 | Lokomotiv Moscow (assistant) | ||
2006–2007 | SC Lokeren (assistant) | ||
2007–2008 | Red Star Belgrade | ||
2009 | SC Lokeren | ||
2010–2013 | Serbia U-21 | ||
2012–2013 | Red Star Belgrade | ||
2014–2016 | Mechelen | ||
2016– | Standard Liège | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Aleksandar Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Јанковић; born May 6, 1972) is a Serbian football coach and former football player. He is the head coach of Standard Liège in the Belgian Pro League.
He played football professionally for his hometown club Red Star Belgrade and FK Napredak Kruševac in Serbia, Bonnyrigg White Eagles Football Club (under the name of Sasha Jankovic) 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.
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.