Viktor Prokopenko
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Full name | Viktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 24 October 1944 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 18 August 2007 | (aged 62)|||||||||||||||
Place of death | Odessa, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1964–1967 | Soviet Army Team (DDR) | ? | (?) | |||||||||||||
1967–1968 | Lokomotiv Vinnytsia | 43 | (5) | |||||||||||||
1969–1970 | Chornomorets | 49 | (7) | |||||||||||||
1971–1973 | Shakhtar | 45 | (14) | |||||||||||||
1973–1974 | Lokomotiv Kherson | ? | (5) | |||||||||||||
1974–1975 | Chornomorets | 17 | (2) | |||||||||||||
Teams managed | ||||||||||||||||
1982–1986 | Chornomorets | |||||||||||||||
1987–1988 | Rotor | |||||||||||||||
1989–1994 | Chornomorets | |||||||||||||||
1992 | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||
1994–1999 | Rotor | |||||||||||||||
2000–2001 | Shakhtar | |||||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Viktor Prokopenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 – 18 August 2007) was a Ukrainian football (soccer) player and coach who played in GDR and Ukrainian SSR and later worked as a coach in Russia and Ukraine.
Career[edit]
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He was born in Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, which now known as Mariupol, Ukraine.[2] In 1975, he graduated from the Odessa State Pedagogical Institute of Ushynsky and later the Moscow Higher School of Coaches.
Prokopenko was the first ever manager of the Ukraine national football team, and authored Flexibility, Strength, Endurance, a popular book on stretching.
Prokopenko was elected to the Ukrainian parliament for the Party of Regions as no.45 on their election list in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[1]
Prokopenko died in Odessa after a heart attack. He was 62 years old.
Honours[edit]
- Chornomorets Odesa
- USSR Federation Cup (1): 1990
- Ukrainian Cup (2): 1992, 1993–94
- Shakhtar Donetsk
- Ukrainian Cup (1): 2000–01
References[edit]
- ^ a b "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the V convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ Viktor Prokopenko passed away
External links[edit]
- 1944 births
- 2007 deaths
- People from Mariupol
- 1. FC Frankfurt players
- FC Nyva Vinnytsia players
- FC Shakhtar Donetsk players
- FC Chornomorets Odesa players
- FC Krystal Kherson players
- Soviet expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in East Germany
- Ukrainian footballers
- Soviet footballers
- Soviet football managers
- Ukrainian football managers
- Ukraine national football team managers
- FC Chornomorets Odesa managers
- FC Shakhtar Donetsk managers
- FC Rotor Volgograd managers
- FC Dynamo Moscow managers
- Russian Premier League managers
- Expatriate football managers in Russia
- Ukrainian Premier League managers
- Higher School of Coaches alumni
- Independent politicians in Ukraine
- Party of Regions politicians
- Fifth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- Ukrainian expatriate football managers
- Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Association football forwards
- K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University alumni