Viktor Prokopenko

Personal information

Full name

Viktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko

Date of birth

24 October 1944

Place of birth

Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR

Date of death

18 August 2007 (aged 62)

Place of death

Odesa, Ukraine

Height

1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)

Position(s)

Forward

Senior career*

Years

Team

Apps

(Gls)

1964–1967

GSFG team

?

(?)

1967–1968

Lokomotyv Vinnytsia

43

(5)

1969–1970

Chornomorets Odesa

49

(7)

1971–1973

Shakhtar Donetsk

45

(14)

1973–1974

Lokomotyv Kherson

?

(5)

1974–1975

Chornomorets Odesa

17

(2)

Managerial career

1982–1986

1987–1988

1989–1994

1992

1994–1999

2000–2001

2002–2003

People's Deputy of Ukraine


5th convocation
In office 25 May 2006 – 18 August 2007
Constituency	Party of Regions, No.45^[1]

*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Viktor Prokopenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 – 18 August 2007) was a Ukrainian football player and coach who played for the Soviet occupational forces in GDR and Ukrainian SSR including teams of the Soviet Top League and later worked as a coach in Russia and Ukraine.

Career

Prokopenko was born in Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, which now known as Mariupol, 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 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.^[1]

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