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
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	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)
Managerial career
1982–1986	Chornomorets
1987–1988	Rotor
1989–1994	Chornomorets
1992	Ukraine
1994–1999	Rotor
2000–2001	Shakhtar
2002–2003	Dynamo Moscow
People's Deputy of Ukraine 5th convocation In office May 25, 2006 – August 18, 2007 Constituency Party of Regions, No.45
*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

Along with Mircea Lucescu

He was born in Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, which now known as Mariupol, Ukraine. 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.

Prokopenko died in Odessa after a heart attack. He was 62 years old.

Honours

Chornomorets Odesa

• USSR Federation Cup (1): 1990
• Ukrainian Cup (2): 1992, 1993–94

Shakhtar Donetsk

• Ukrainian Cup (1): 2000–01

External links

• Viktor Prokopenko at the Official Ukraine today.
• Statistics
• Viktor Prokopenko at Find a Grave