Janko Langura

Janko Langura (Serbian Cyrillic: Јанко Лангура; born 25 April 1994) is a Serbian politician and former professional footballer. He played as a goalkeeper from 2013 to 2019 and has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020. Langura is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.[1][2]

Janko Langura
Јанко Лангура
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
3 August 2020
Personal details
Born (1994-04-25) 25 April 1994
Priboj, FR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partySerbian Progressive Party

Association football career
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
2010–2013 Metalac Gornji Milanovac
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2014 Metalac Gornji Milanovac 0 (0)
2013–2014Rudar Kostolac (loan) 16 (0)
2014–2015 Rudar Kostolac 12 (0)
2015–2016 Loznica 1 (0)
2016Mačva Šabac (loan) 2 (0)
2016 Mačva Šabac 0 (0)
2017 Dinamo Vranje 3 (0)
2017 Takovo 0 (0)
2018 Železničar Lajkovac 10 (0)
2018–2019 Metalac Gornji Milanovac 0 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Early life and football career

Langura was born in Priboj, Serbia, in what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[3] He has a bachelor's degree in economics.[4]

He was signed to FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac (2013), FK Rudar Kostolac (2013–15), FK Loznica (2015), FK Mačva Šabac (2016), FK Dinamo Vranje (2017), FK Takovo (2017–18), FK Železničar (2018) and FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac again (2018–19). He saw action in four games: one for Loznica and three for Dimano Vranje. He now lives in Gornji Milanovac.

Politician

Langura first became known to the public in October 2019, when he verbally clashed with the leader of Dveri, Boško Obradović.[5] In February 2020, Langura was physically assaulted and on that occasion he sustained head injuries.[6]

Langura received the 155th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[4] and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates. He is now a member of the assembly committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a deputy member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Kuwait; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland.[7]

He was also given the fifth position on the Progressive Party's list for the Gornji Milanovac municipal assembly in the concurrent 2020 Serbian local elections[8] and was elected when the list won a majority with twenty-seven out of forty-nine seats.[9]

References

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