*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 Honours
• 2 References
• 3 External links

Career

Along with Mircea Lucescu

He was born in Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, which now known as Mariupol, Ukraine. In 1975, he graduated from the Odessa State Pedagogical Ins*ute of Ushynsky and later the Moscow Higher School of Coaches.

Prokopenko was the first ever manager of the Ukraine national football team, and aut*d 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.

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

Honours

Chornomorets Odesa

• USSR Federation Cup (1): 1990
• Ukrainian Cup (2): 1992, 1993–94

Shakhtar Donetsk

• Ukrainian Cup (1): 2000–01

References

External links

• Viktor Prokopenko at the Official Ukraine today.
• Statistics
• Viktor Prokopenko at Find a Grave