Boško Janković

Boško Janković

Janković with Genoa in 2009
Personal information
Date of birth	(1984-03-01) 1 March 1984 (age 32)
Place of birth	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Right Winger
Youth career
1996–2002	Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002–2006	Red Star Belgrade	74	(24)
2003–2004	→ Jedinstvo Ub (loan)	28	(21)
2006–2007	Mallorca	28	(9)
2007–2008	Palermo	27	(2)
2008–2013	Genoa	83	(14)
2013–2016	Hellas Verona	51	(4)
National team
2003–2007	Serbia U21	29	(11)
2006–2012	Serbia	31	(5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 April 2016.

Boško Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Бошко Јанковић; born 1 March 1984) is a Serbian footballer playing as a midfielder or striker for the Serbia national football team. He is at his best going forward and is equally at home playing in the centre or either wing. He is an attacking minded player, with the tendency to take long shots and free kicks.

Having gone through all age groups in Red Star Belgrade youth setup, 18-year-old Janković earned his first taste of full squad action throughout fall 2002, during first half of 2002–03 season under head coach Zoran Filipović.

However, over the winter 2002–03 break in January 2003, Janković was loaned out to lower division side Jedinstvo Ub along with Dušan Basta and Aleksandar Luković in order to gain valuable experience through regular playing time. Over the next season and a half in Ub, he excelled in attacking midfielder position, scoring 21 league goals in 28 matches. At the beginning of 2003–04 league season, Jankovic along with a group of other Red Star youth players was registered both for Red Star and Jedinstvo, which in practice meant that he trained with Red Star during the week while playing league matches for Jedinstvo on Saturdays. However, following the winter break, head coach Slavoljub Muslin decided to discontinue this practice making the players both train and play with Jedinstvo.

All the success prompted new head coach Ljupko Petrović and the rest in Red Star management to bring Janković back during summer 2004, ahead of the 2004–05 season. The move paid immediate dividends as he scored a spectacular free kick goal versus PSV Eindhoven in the first leg of UEFA Champions League 3rd Round qualifying. He followed that up with a notable domestic season in which he scored 10 goals in 25 appearances, showing early signs of the things to come and establishing himself as one of the more important players on the league winning Red Star roster.