Viktor Prokopenko ( uk, Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 – 18 August 2007) was a Ukrainian

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player and

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who played in GDR and

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

including teams of the

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level ...

and later worked as a coach in Russia and Ukraine.

Career

He was born in Zhdanov,

, which now known as

Mariupol Mariupol (, ; uk, Маріу́поль ; russian: Мариу́поль) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast ( Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Prior to the 2022 Russia ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

.Viktor Prokopenko passed away
/ref> 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 The Ukraine national football team ( uk, Збірна України з футболу) represents Ukraine in men's international football and is governed by the Ukrainian Association of Football, the governing body for football in Ukraine. Uk ...

, and authored ''Flexibility, Strength, Endurance'', a popular book on stretching. Prokopenko was elected to the

Ukrainian parliament The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

for the

Party of Regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of U ...

as no.45 on their election list in the

2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

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

Honours

;Chornomorets Odesa *

USSR Federation Cup The Cup of Football Federation of USSR, az, SSRİ Futbol Federasiyasının Kuboku, kk, КСРО футбол федерациялары кубогы, KSRO fwtbol federacïyaları kwbogı, lt, TSRS Futbolo Lygos Taurė, ro, Cupa Federației de ...

(1):

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup ( uk, Кубок України) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003� ...

(2): 1992, 1993–94 ;Shakhtar Donetsk *

(1): 2000–01

References

External links

Viktor Prokopenko at the Official Ukraine today

Statistics
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prokopenko, Viktor 1944 births 2007 deaths Sportspeople from Mariupol 1. FC Frankfurt players FC Nyva Vinnytsia players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FC Chornomorets Odesa players FC Krystal Kherson players Soviet expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in East Germany Ukrainian footballers Soviet footballers Soviet football managers Ukrainian football managers Ukraine national football team managers FC Chornomorets Odesa managers FC Shakhtar Donetsk managers FC Rotor Volgograd managers FC Dynamo Moscow managers Russian Premier League managers Expatriate football managers in Russia Ukrainian Premier League managers Higher School of Coaches alumni Independent politicians in Ukraine Party of Regions politicians Fifth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Ukrainian expatriate football managers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Association football forwards K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University alumni Politicians from Mariupol