Slobodan "Čobo" Janjuš (born January 7, 1952) is a Yugoslav and Bosnian former professional

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Club career

He represented a number of domestic clubs, having played with all of them, beside Second League FK Radnički Pirot, in the

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

, namely,

FK Željezničar Sarajevo Fudbalski klub Željezničar Sarajevo ( sh-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Жељезничap Сарајево; English: Football Club Željezničar Sarajevo), commonly referred to as Željo, is a professional football club, based in Sarajevo ...

FK Vojvodina Fudbalski klub Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Војводина), commonly known as Vojvodina and colloquially as Voša ( sr-Cyrl, Воша), is a Serbian professional football club based in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, the second la ...

FK Sarajevo Fudbalski klub Sarajevo (; English: Sarajevo Football Club) is a professional football club based in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is one of the most successful clubs in the country. Founded on 24 October 1946, FK Sara ...

, NK Olimpija Ljubljana,

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and FK Sutjeska Nikšić. He won the

in the 1971–72 season with Željezničar and also the Maltese Premier League in the 1989–90 season. He also played in

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and

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. He was the youngest starting goalkeeper in Yugoslav football history at the age of 17. Slobodan retired at the age of 40.

International career

Janjuš has also represented the Yugoslav national team 9 times in the years he played football.

Post-playing career

Since the early 1990s Janjuš has been living in the

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. Usually referred to as "Bobby" in the U.S., he worked as goalkeeping coach with MLS'

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. In 2008, he was appointed as the new goalkeeping coach at the newly established Tampa Bay Rowdies of the NASL. With the Rowdies, Bobby trained than USF goalkeeper

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. Attinella developed his skills under Bobby and became NASL best goalkeeper which eventually grabbed MLS's

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's attention who bought Attinella's contract. Bobby also coached youth teams across the county and has developed a youth female goalkeeper that represented the United States in a U-16 game. Janjuš additionally owns a number of local businesses including a bar which is filled with mementos and memorabilia from his football playing career.

Personal life

While an active footballer, Janjuš had relationships with table tennis player

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, while playing for Vojvodina, and singer Izvorinka Milošević.Slobodan Janjuš : Suprugu Suzan sam upoznao u striptiz baru na Floridi
/ref> After moving to the United States, Janjuš met a woman of

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n origin, Susanne Ferry, and after more than two decades of living together they were married in

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in 2016 and spent their honeymoon in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its a ...

. His daughter attended

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and currently resides in

. On 6 December 2009, Janjuš was arrested for domestic battery by the St. Petersburg Police.Janjus at Florida.Arrests.org
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Honours

Player

Club

Željezničar Sarajevo *

: 1971–72 Valletta * Maltese Premier League: 1989–90

References

External links

* Stats from Yugoslav Leagues at Zerodic.com. {{DEFAULTSORT:Janjus, Slobodan Living people 1952 births Footballers from Sarajevo Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers Yugoslav footballers Yugoslav expatriate footballers Yugoslav emigrants to the United States Association football goalkeepers Yugoslav First League players FK Željezničar Sarajevo players FK Vojvodina players FK Sarajevo players NK Olimpija Ljubljana (1945–2005) players GNK Dinamo Zagreb players FK Sutjeska Nikšić players Valletta F.C. players Expatriate footballers in Malta Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Malta Mqabba F.C. players