Viktor Prokopenko

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 including teams of the Soviet Top League and later worked as a coach in Russia and Ukraine.

Viktor Prokopenko
Personal information
Full name Viktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko
Date of birth (1944-10-24)24 October 1944
Place of birth Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death 18 August 2007(2007-08-18) (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 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
People's Deputy of Ukraine
5th convocation
In office
25 May 2006 – 18 August 2007
ConstituencyParty of Regions, No.45[1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career
Along with Mircea Lucescu

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
Chornomorets Odesa
Shakhtar Donetsk

References
  1. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the V convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. Viktor Prokopenko passed away
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