Rajko Janjanin

Rajko Janjanin
Personal information
Full name	Rajko Janjanin
Date of birth	18 January 1957 (age 67)
Place of birth	Karlovac, PR Croatia,; FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1969–1975	NK Karlovac
Senior career*
Years	Team
1975–1980	Dinamo Zagreb
1980–1984	Red Star Belgrade
1985–1986	OFI
1986–1988	AEK Athens
Total
International career
1979–1980	Yugoslavia
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing Yugoslavia
Mediterranean Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rajko Janjanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Pajкo Jaњaнин; born 18 January 1957) is a Yugoslav of Croatian Serb descent former international football player, who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Janjanin started his professional career in 1975 playing for Dinamo Zagreb , with whom he played for five years, winning the Yugoslav Cup in 1980.He then joined Red Star Belgrade for almost five years. His shining moment took place on 19 September 1984 when he scored a second half hat-trick for Red Star in the 3–2 win over Benfica for the European Cup after Red star was down by 0–2.^[1] With Red Star he won two Yugoslav Championship and a Yugoslav cup in 1982, while he became an international footballer.

In November 1984, he moved to Greece and transferred to OFI where he performed very well and had a decisive contribution to the Cretan team winning second place in the Greek Championship in 1986. While his contract was coming to an end, he was offered a renewal by the management of OFI, but there was a rift since he was asking for 18 million drachmas for a two-year contract and he was offered much less money. AEK Athens, which were interested, included him in their team in December 1986, fully meeting the demands of the footballer and despite the opposition from OFI. He played in AEK until the summer of 1988, with which he did not score a high performance, but sometimes showed samples of his footballing quality and ended his career there in 1988.^[2]