Viktor Prokopenko

{{Short description|Ukrainian footballer (1944–2007)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Viktor Prokopenko

| image = Федоренко. прокопенко 2.jpg

| upright = 1.1

| full_name = Viktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko

| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|10|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|8|18|1944|10|24|df=yes}}

| death_place = Odesa, Ukraine

| height = 1.86 m

| position = Forward

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 =

| years1 = 1964–1967

| years2 = 1967–1968

| years3 = 1969–1970

| years4 = 1971–1973

| years5 = 1973–1974

| years6 = 1974–1975

| clubs1 = GSFG team

| clubs2 = Lokomotyv Vinnytsia

| clubs3 = Chornomorets Odesa

| clubs4 = Shakhtar Donetsk

| clubs5 = Lokomotyv Kherson

| clubs6 = Chornomorets Odesa

| caps1 = ?

| caps2 = 43

| caps3 = 49

| caps4 = 45

| caps5 = ?

| caps6 = 17

| goals1 = ?

| goals2 = 5

| goals3 = 7

| goals4 = 14

| goals5 = 5

| goals6 = 2

| manageryears1 = 1982–1986

| manageryears2 = 1987–1988

| manageryears3 = 1988

| manageryears4 = 1989–1994

| manageryears5 = 1992

| manageryears6 = 1994–1999

| manageryears7 = 2000–2001

| manageryears8 = 2002–2003

| managerclubs1 = Chornomorets Odesa

| managerclubs2 = Rotor Volgograd

| managerclubs4 = Chornomorets Odesa

| managerclubs5 = Ukraine

| managerclubs6 = Rotor Volgograd

| managerclubs7 = Shakhtar Donetsk

| managerclubs8 = Dynamo Moscow

| module = {{infobox officeholder | embed=yes

| office1 = People's Deputy of Ukraine

| convocation1 = 5th convocation

| constituency1 = Party of Regions, No.45{{cite web|title=People's Deputy of Ukraine of the V convocation|url=http://itd.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/expage/8848/6|website=Official portal|publisher=Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine|access-date=22 December 2014|language=uk}}

| term_start1 = 25 May 2006

| term_end1 = 18 August 2007

}}

}}

Viktor Prokopenko ({{langx|uk|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.

Career

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Prokopenko was born in Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, now known as Mariupol, Ukraine.[http://shakhtar.com/en/news/4773 Viktor Prokopenko passed away] 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.

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

Managerial statistics

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|align=left|29 April 1992

|align=left|26 August 1992

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Honours

=Chornomorets Odesa=

=Shakhtar Donetsk=

See also

References

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