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Viktor Prokopenko

Viktor Prokopenko
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Personal information
Full name Viktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko
Date of birth (1944-10-24)24 October 1944
Place of birth Zhdanov, Soviet Union
Date of death 18 August 2007(2007-08-18) (aged 62)
Place of death Odessa, Ukraine
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1964–1967 Soviet Army Team (DDR) ? (?)
1967–1968 Lokomotiv Vinnytsia 43 (5)
1969–1970 Chornomorets 49 (7)
1971–1973 Shakhtar 45 (14)
1973–1974 Lokomotiv Kherson ? (5)
1974–1975 Chornomorets 17 (2)
Teams managed
1982–1986 Chornomorets
1987–1988 Rotor
1989–1994 Chornomorets
1992 Ukraine
1994–1999 Rotor
2000–2001 Shakhtar
2002–2003 Dynamo Moscow
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
People's Deputy of Ukraine
5th convocation
May 25, 2006 – August 18, 2007
Elected as: Party of Regions, No.45

Viktor Prokopenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 – 18 August 2007) was a football (soccer) player and coach who played in GDR and Ukrainian SSR and later worked as a coach in Russia and Ukraine.

He was born in Zhdanov, Soviet Union, which is now known as Mariupol and is part of Ukraine. 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. Prokopenko also authored Flexibility, Strength, Endurance, a popular book on stretching.

Prokopenko was elected (as an independent candidate) into the Ukrainian parliament in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election for Party of Regions (as no.45 on their election list).

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


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