Boško Janković

Boško Janković
Personal information
Janković with Genoa in 2009
Date of birth	(1984-03-01) 1 March 1984
Place of birth	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	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.^[1]

Club career

Red Star Belgrade

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.^[2]

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.

Janković truly came into his own throughout the 2005–06 season under head coach Walter Zenga, increasing his league scoring output to 12 goals in 26 appearances while also providing steady service from the right wing to Red Star strikers, most notably Nikola Žigić. At the end of the 2005–06 season, Janković was named Player of the Year.

By this time, he also became a staple in the Serbia-Montenegro under-21 national team with all the exposure leading to increased interest in Janković from abroad. As a result, rumours of a summer 2006 sale became perisistant. Still, he started the 2006–07 league season with Red Star, however after only one match, Janković was sold to RCD Mallorca in August 2006 for €3 million.

RCD Mallorca

The 23-year-old's excellent form shown during the 2006–07 season with Mallorca has caught the attention of both FC Barcelona and Valencia CF, but Janković played down the rumors and suggested he wanted to stay a year or two at Mallorca before making a move for one of the major clubs. In his first season with Mallorca, Jankovic was able to score 9 goals in 28 appearances being himself the top scorer of the Mallorquin team. Chelsea F.C. were rumoured to be very interested in the youngster and some scouts appeared at the Under 21 Championship Final to watch him.

However, on 28 June Italian Serie A club Palermo announced they have signed the Serbian midfielder to a five-year deal.^[3]The transfer fee paid to Mallorca was said to be €8 million.^[4]

U.S. Città di Palermo

Janković made his scoring debut for Palermo in the UEFA Cup match, but his debut season in Sicily was a disappointment, as he rarely got opportunities to prove himself in the first half of the season, though his playing time and quality of play improved somewhat during the second half of the season.^[5]

Genoa

On 1 September 2008, he signed for Genoa CFC on loan from Palermo.

In the summer of 2009, Genoa reportedly exercised a clause in his loan contract to buy full ownership of the player and thus make the deal a permanent one.^[6] However, Janković got injured at the start of the season after making only three league appearances. He played for Genoa until summer 2013. when he completed his transfer to Hellas Verona.

International career

Janković scored his first goal for Serbia vs Portugal in a Euro 2008 Qualifying match on 28 March 2007. He then followed up with another goal vs Finland in another Euro 2008 qualifying match on 2 June. He recently competed in the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship where he scored a goal vs the Czech Republic in Serbia's second group B match and led them to 2nd place in the tournament. After the tournament he was named in the 'UEFA Team of the tournament'.

Career statistics

Club

As of April 2016^[7]

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Other		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Red Star Belgrade	2002–03	14	3	?	?	0	0	–		14	3
Red Star Belgrade	2003–04	4	0	?	?	0	0	–		4	0
Jedinstvo Ub (loan)	2003–04	28	21	?	?	0	0	–		28	21
Red Star Belgrade	2004–05	28	9	?	?	6	1	–		34	10
	2005–06	26	12	?	?	7	1	–		33	13
	2006–07	2	0	0	0	4	0	–		6	0
	Total	74	24	?	?	17	2	–		91	26
Mallorca	2006–07	28	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	9
Mallorca	Total	28	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	9
Palermo	2007–08	26	2	2	0	2	1	0	0	30	3
	2008–09	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	Total	27	2	2	0	2	1	0	0	31	3
Genoa	2008–09	25	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	26	4
	2009–10	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
	2010–11	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
	2011–12	30	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	31	6
	2012–13	19	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	20	4
	Total	83	14	4	0	0	0	0	0	87	14
Verona	2013–14	18	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	19	2
	2014–15	18	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	19	1
	2015–16	15	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	1
	Total	51	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	53	3
Career total		291	74	8	0	19	3	0	0	318	77

International

Serbian national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2006	1	0
2007	9	3
2008	9	1
2009	5	1
2010	1	0
2011	3	0
2012	3	0
Total	31	5

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	28 March 2007	Stadion Crvena Zvezda, Beograd, Serbia	Portugal	1–1	1–1	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
2.	2 Jun 2007	Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland	Finland	0–1	0–2	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
3.	17 October 2007	Tofik Bakhramov Stadium, Baku, Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	1–3	1–6	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
4.	31 May 2008	Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany	Germany	0–1	2–1	Friendly
5.	1 April 2009	Stadion Partizan, Beograd, Serbia	Sweden	2–0	2–0	Friendly

Honours

Red Star Belgrade

References

↑ Ufficiale: Torregrossa al Brescia, risoluzione consensuale per Jankovic‚ hellasverona.it, 30 August 2016
↑ Slavoljub Muslin sekstetu mladih igrača crveno belih nije dozvolio da podignu opremu za trening – Šest karata za Ub; Glas javnosti, 5 March 2004
↑ US Città di Palermo (29 June 2007). "Preso Jankovic dal R. C. D. Mallorca" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2 July 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2007.
↑ Zvezdine padalice, Press, November 30, 2008
↑ Sormani, Anthony (01/09/2008). "Genoa Re-Sign Milito, Loan Jankovic". Goal.com. Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ http://www.goal.com/en/news/10/italy/2009/06/24/1343401/bosko-jankovic-will-remain-with-genoa-agent
↑ "B.Janković". Soccerway. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

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