Viktor_Prokopenko

Viktor Prokopenko

Viktor Prokopenko

Ukrainian footballer (1944–2007)


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.

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Career

Prokopenko with Mircea Lucescu

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.

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Honours

Chornomorets Odesa

Shakhtar Donetsk

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References

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

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