Viktor Prokopenko

Viktor Prokopenko
Personal information
Full name Viktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko
Date of birth (1944-10-24)24 October 1944
Place of birth Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Date of death 18 August 2007(2007-08-18) (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

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

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

Prokopenko with Mircea Lucescu

Prokopenko was born in Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, 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

As of match updated 12 September 2023
Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Ukraine Ukraine 29 April 1992 26 August 1992 3 0 1 2 000.00
Total 3 0 1 2 000.00

Honours

Chornomorets Odesa

Shakhtar Donetsk

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "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