Education
He finished his career with a total of 240 games in the Czechoslovak First League, having scored five goals.
He finished his career with a total of 240 games in the Czechoslovak First League, having scored five goals.
As a player he played a total of 240 matches in the Czechoslovak First League, scoring five times. Janů started his football career as a youth player at TJ Dynamo České Budějovice, before moving to Slavia Prague at the age of 17. He played 201 matches for Slavia in an 11-year spell.
He went on to play for Bohemians Prague for two years before heading to Malaysia.
In the 1992-1993 season he returned to Czechoslovakia, playing four more games for Bohemians. He played for the Czechoslovakia Olympic football team in some qualification matches for the 1988 Summer Olympics but the team didn"t qualify for the tournament.
In May 2002, Janů was appointed as manager of Czechoslovakian 2. Liga side Most, replacing Luboš Urban.
He was given the position until the end of the season, with five games remaining.
Janů was appointed as assistant manager to Karel Jarolím at Slavia Prague in April 2005. He left Slavia and moved to Indonesia in October 2006 to become the manager of Arema Football Club. His coaching adventure in Indonesia started in Persigo and then PSM. He led PSM to second place in the 2004 Liga Indonesia Premier Division. He joined Arema for a second time in the 2010-2011 season, replacing Dutch winning manager, Robert Alberts.
Arema finished the season in second place.
Retire at Persebaya Surabaya
He died in Surabaya (Indonesia) on 24 January 2013 suffering a suspected heart attack.