Viktor Onopko

Viktor Onopko
	Honored by UEFA in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Viktor Savelyevich Onopko
Date of birth	14 October 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth	Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union; (now Luhansk, Ukraine)
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	CSKA Moscow (asst manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1986	Stakhanovets Stakhanov
1986–1988	Shakhtar Donetsk
1989	Dinamo Kiev
1990–1991	Shakhtar Donetsk
1992–1995	Spartak Moscow
1995–2002	Real Oviedo
2002–2003	Rayo Vallecano
2003–2004	Alania Vladikavkaz
2004–2005	Saturn
Total
International career
1992	CIS
1992–2004	Russia
Managerial career
2009–	CSKA Moscow (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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Viktor Savelyevich Onopko (Russian: Виктор Савельевич Онопко) (born 14 October 1969, in Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk), Soviet Union) is an association football coach and a former defender. He held the record for most international appearances for the Russian national team until 8 September 2015, when he was overtaken by Sergei Ignashevich.^[1] Currently he works as an assistant manager for PFC CSKA Moscow.

Viktor has a younger brother Serhiy Onopko.

Club career

Onopko's career as player started in 1988 and finished in 2005, during this time he played for Shakhtar Donetsk, Spartak Moscow, Real Oviedo, Rayo Vallecano, Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Saturn.

International career

Although he was eligible to play for Ukraine, Onopko chose to play for Russia and amassed 109 caps (plus four for the CIS, including in Euro 92), the first coming in 1992. He played in the 1994 and 2002 World Cups, as well as Euro 96. Onopko was in the preliminary squad for Euro 2004 but was dropped due to injury.

In 2009 he was part of the Russia squad that won the 2009 Legends Cup.

Career statistics

Club

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Stakhanovets Stakhanov	1986	4	0	0	0	-	-	4	0
Shakhtar	1986	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0
	1987	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0
	1988	3	0	1	0	-	-	4	0
Dinamo Kiev	1989	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0
Shakhtar	1990	21	0	3	1	-	-	24	1
Shakhtar	1991	24	1	1	0	-	-	25	1
Spartak	1992	23	6	2	1	7	1	32	8
	1993	30	9	4	0	9	4	43	13
	1994	26	2	3	0	5	0	34	2
	1995	29	6	1	0	6	0	36	6
Real Oviedo	1995–96	19	1	-	-	-	-	19	1
	1996–97	37	0	1	0	-	-	38	0
	1997–98	31	0	-	-	-	-	31	0
	1998–99	33	0	2	0	-	-	35	0
	1999-00	31	2	1	0	-	-	32	2
	2000–01	35	3	1	0	-	-	36	3
	2001–02	30	1	-	-	-	-	30	1
Rayo Vallecano	2002–03	28	1	1	0	-	-	29	1
Alania	2003	7	0	1	0	-	-	8	0
Saturn	2004	26	1	5	0	-	-	31	1
Saturn	2005	25	0	2	0	-	-	27	0
Career	Total	458	33	29	2	27	5	514	40

Honours

Russian Premier League champion: 1992, 1993, 1994
Russian Premier League bronze: 1995
Soviet Cup winner: 1992
Russian Cup winner: 1994
Russian Cup finalist: 1996
Footballer of the Year in Russia: 1992, 1993
Footballer of the Year in Russia: 1993

External links

References

^ ИГНАШЕВИЧ ПОБИЛ РЕКОРД ОНОПКО ПО ЧИСЛУ МАТЧЕЙ ЗА СБОРНУЮ РОССИИ (in Russian). Sport Express. 8 September 2015.

[1] ИГНАШЕВИЧ ПОБИЛ РЕКОРД ОНОПКО ПО ЧИСЛУ МАТЧЕЙ ЗА СБОРНУЮ РОССИИ (in Russian). Sport Express. 8 September 2015.

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