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 | Odesa, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1964–1967 | GSFG team | ? | (?) | |||||||||||||
1967–1968 | Lokomotyv Vinnytsia | 43 | (5) | |||||||||||||
1969–1970 | Chornomorets Odesa | 49 | (7) | |||||||||||||
1971–1973 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 45 | (14) | |||||||||||||
1973–1974 | Lokomotyv Kherson | ? | (5) | |||||||||||||
1974–1975 | Chornomorets Odesa | 17 | (2) | |||||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||||
1982–1986 | Chornomorets Odesa | |||||||||||||||
1987–1988 | Rotor Volgograd | |||||||||||||||
1989–1994 | Chornomorets Odesa | |||||||||||||||
1992 | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||
1994–1999 | Rotor Volgograd | |||||||||||||||
2000–2001 | Shakhtar Donetsk | |||||||||||||||
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 player and coach who played for the Soviet occupational forces in East Germany and the Ukrainian SSR including teams of the Soviet Top League and later worked as a coach in Russia and Ukraine.
Career
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Prokopenko 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 manager of the Ukraine national team since dissolution of the Soviet Union. He also 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 Odesa after a heart attack. He was 62 years old.
Managerial statistics
[edit]- As of match updated 12 September 2023
Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
![]() | 29 April 1992 | 26 August 1992 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.00 |
Total | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.00 |
Honours
[edit]Chornomorets Odesa
[edit]Shakhtar Donetsk
[edit]See also
[edit]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