Viktor Prokopenko ( uk, Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 – 18 August 2007) was a Ukrainian football (soccer) player and coach who played in

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and Ukrainian SSR including teams of the Soviet Top League and later worked as a coach in Russia and Ukraine.

Career

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and later the Moscow Higher School of Coaches. Prokopenko was the first ever manager of the Ukraine national football team, and 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

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. Prokopenko died in

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after a heart attack. He was 62 years old.

Honours

;Chornomorets Odesa * USSR Federation Cup (1):

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* Ukrainian Cup (2):

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, 1993–94 ;Shakhtar Donetsk * Ukrainian Cup (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