Viktor Prokopenko

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Viktor Prokopenko
Personal information
Full nameViktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko
Date of birth24 October 1944
Place of birthZhdanov, Soviet Union
Date of death18 August 2007(2007-08-18) (aged 62)
Place of deathOdessa, Ukraine
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing positionForward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1964–1967Soviet Army Team (DDR)?(?)
1967–1968Lokomotiv Vinnytsia43(5)
1969–1970Chornomorets49(7)
1971–1973Shakhtar45(14)
1973–1974Lokomotiv Kherson?(5)
1974–1975Chornomorets17(2)
Teams managed
1982–1986Chornomorets
1987–1988Rotor
1989–1994Chornomorets
1992Ukraine
1994–1999Rotor
2000–2001Shakhtar
2002–2003Dynamo Moscow
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Viktor Prokopenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 – 18 August 2007) was a football (soccer) player and coach who played in GDR and Ukrainian SSR and later worked as a coach in Soviet Union and the post Soviet countries. He was born in Zhdanov, Soviet Union, which is now known as Mariupol and is part of Ukraine.[1] 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. Prokopenko also authored Flexibility, Strength, Endurance, a popular book on stretching. He died in Odessa after a heart attack. Prokopenko was 62 years old.

References

  1. ↑ Viktor Prokopenko passed away

External links

FC Chornomorets Odessa – managers
  • Kogan (1936)
  • Blank (1937–39)
  • Lapidus (1939)
  • Kozyrskyi (1940)
  • Khodotov (1941)
  • Fomin (1945)
  • Shchehotsky (1945–46)
  • Fomin (1947–50)
  • Khyzhnikov (1950)
  • club did not exist (1951–52)
  • Kostylev (1953–54)
  • Fomin (1955)
  • Andriasyan (1955–56)
  • Stupakov (1956–58)
  • Halynskyi (1958)
  • Zubrytskyi (1959–62)
  • Bobrov (1963)
  • Gorokhov (1964)
  • Voynov (1964–67)
  • Fedorov (1967)
  • Morozov (1967)
  • Shaposhnikov (1968–70)
  • Zhylin (1971)
  • Morozov (1971)
  • Zubrytskyi (1971–73)
  • Alaskarov (1973–77)
  • Zubrytskyi (1977–79)
  • Zubkov (1979c)
  • Prokopenko (1979c)
  • Simonyan (1979–81)
  • Prokopenko (1982–86)
  • Polosin (1987–88)
  • Zabolotnyi (1988)
  • Prokopenko (1989–94)
  • Buryak (1994–98)
  • Kozerenko (1998)
  • Holokolosov (1998–99)
  • Melnyk (1999c)
  • Azarenkov (1999–2001)
  • Skrypnyk (2001–02)
  • Haidarzhi (2002–03)
  • Altman (2003–06)
  • Dohadaylo (2006c)
  • Altman (2007)
  • Shevchenko (2007–08)
  • Hryshko (2008–09)
  • Nakonechnyi (2009c)
  • Bal (2009–10)
  • Nakonechnyi (2010c)
  • Hryhorchuk (2010–)
FC Rotor Volgograd – managers
(c) caretaker
(c) caretaker
FC Shakhtar Donetsk – managers
FC Dynamo Moscow – managers
(c) caretaker


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