Role Football player Place of death Odessa, Ukraine Height 1.86 m | Playing position Position Forward Name Viktor Prokopenko | |
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Full name Viktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko Date of birth (1944-10-24)24 October 1944 Date of death 18 August 2007(2007-08-18) (aged 62) Died August 18, 2007, Odessa, Ukraine | ||
Place of birth Zhdanov, Soviet Union | ||
Shakhtar honoured the memory of viktor prokopenko
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.
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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.