Slobodan Janjuš

Slobodan Janjuš
Personal information
Full nameSlobodan Janjuš
Date of birthJanuary 7, 1952
Place of birthSarajevo, FPR Yugoslavia
Playing positionGoalkeeper
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1974-1977Željezničar Sarajevo82(0)
1977-1978FK Vojvodina11(0)
1978-1979Radnički Pirot30(0)
1979-1981FK Sarajevo70(0)
1981-1982Olimpija Ljubljana17(0)
1982-1983FK Sarajevo35(0)
1983-1984Dinamo Zagreb11(0)
1984-1985Sutjeska Nikšić12(0)
1985-1988Željezničar Sarajevo37(0)
Valletta FC
Mqabba FC
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Slobodan "Čobo" Janjuš (born January 7, 1952 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian former football goalkeeper.

He represented a number of domestic clubs, having played with all of them, beside Second League FK Radnički Pirot, in the Yugoslav First League, namely, FK Željezničar Sarajevo, FK Vojvodina, FK Sarajevo, NK Olimpija Ljubljana, NK Dinamo Zagreb and FK Sutjeska Nikšić. He also played in Malta and Germany. He has represented the Yugoslavian national team 9 times in the years he played football. He was the youngest starting goalkeeper in Yugoslavian history at the age of 17. Slobodan retired at the age of 40.

Post-playing

Since the early 1990s Janjuš lives in the United States. He worked as a goalkeeping coach with MLS' Tampa Bay Mutiny. Since 2008, he's been working as goalkeeping coach at the newly founded the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the NASL.[1]

Personal

While an active footballer, Janjuš had relationships with table tennis player Eržebet Palatinuš and singer Izvornika Milošević.[2]

After moving to the United States, Janjuš married a woman named Susan. His daughter attended UNLV and resides in Vegas. On 6 December 2009, Janjuš was arrested for domestic battery by the St. Petersburg Police.[3] He currently works for the Tampa Bay Rowdies as a goalkeepers coach and local clubs. Slobodan owns a number of local businesses including a bar which is filled with his footballing career photos and memories. With the Rowdies, Bobby trained than USF goalkeeper Jeff Attinella. Attinella developed his skills under Bobby and became NASL best goalkeeper which eventually grabbed MLS Real Salt Lake's attention who bought Attinella's contract. Bobby also coaches youth teams across the county and is has developed a youth female goalkeeper that represented the United States in a U-16 game.

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