Viktor Prokopenko

Viktor Prokopenko

Personal information
Full name	Viktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko
Date of birth	(1944-10-24)24 October 1944
Place of birth	Zhdanov, Soviet Union
Date of death	18 August 2007(2007-08-18) (aged 62)
Place of death	Odessa, Ukraine
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	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)
Teams managed
1982–1986	Chornomorets
1987–1988	Rotor
1989–1994	Chornomorets
1992	Ukraine
1994–1999	Rotor
2000–2001	Shakhtar
2002–2003	Dynamo 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 Russia and Ukraine.

Career

He was born in Zhdanov, Soviet Union, which is now known as Mariupol and is part of 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 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

External links

• Viktor Prokopenko at the Official Ukraine today.
• Statistics