Roman Mykhaylovych Pokora (, 22 February 1948 – 8 March 2021) was a Ukrainian
football
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player and manager who played most of his career as a
midfielder
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.
Career
Born in
Zboriv
Zboriv (, ; ; ; ) is a small List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located in the historical region of Galicia (Central Europe), Galicia. The local government is administered by Zboriv City Cou ...
, Pokora lived in
Vynnyky
Vynnyky (, , ) is a small city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It belongs to Lviv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population was estimated to be
History
Since the mid-14th century, until the Partitions of Polan ...
, a suburb of
Lviv
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, since the age of 4.
Pokora played four seasons in the
Soviet Top League
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for
FC Karpaty Lviv
Football Club Karpaty Lviv ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv.
In 2020–21 the club was reorganized and changed owner. During that period there existed two clubs with the same name, one at professional level competitio ...
.
Pokora was married and had two sons.
Honours
Karpaty Lviv
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Soviet Cup
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: 1969
References
External links
* Verbytsky, I.
Roman Pokora: Habovda drifted away, and we got scared that his death will be on our conscience (Роман Покора: Габовда поплыл, а мы испугались, что его смерть будет на нашей совести)'. UA-Football. 18 January 2017.
1948 births
2021 deaths
People from Zboriv
Soviet men's footballers
Ukrainian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Karpaty Lviv players
FC Metalist Kharkiv players
FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk players
Soviet Top League players
Ukrainian football managers
Soviet football managers
FC Bălți managers
Ukrainian Premier League managers
NK Veres Rivne managers
FC Volyn Lutsk managers
FC Polissya Zhytomyr managers
FC Oleksandriya managers
FC Nyva Vinnytsia managers
MFC Mykolaiv managers
FC Helios Kharkiv managers
FC Enerhetyk Burshtyn managers
FC Skala Stryi (1911) managers
FC Halychyna Drohobych managers
Ukrainian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Azerbaijan
Expatriate football managers in Georgia (country)
Footballers from Ternopil Oblast
20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen
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