Viktor Prokopenko Explained

Viktor Prokopenko

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Viktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko

Birth Date:

24 October 1944

Birth Place:

Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR

Death Place:

Odesa, Ukraine

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1.86 m

Position:

Forward

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1964–1967

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1967–1968

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1969–1970

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1971–1973

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1973–1974

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1974–1975

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1982–1986

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1987–1988

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1988

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1989–1994

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1992

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1994–1999

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2000–2001

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2002–2003

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Constituency1:	Party of Regions, No.45^[1]
Term Start1:	25 May 2006
Term End1:	18 August 2007

Viktor Prokopenko (uk|Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 - 18 August 2007) was a Ukrainian football player and coach who played for the Soviet occupational forces in East Germany and the 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, 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.