Viktor Prokopenko Sports manager

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 throughout the Soviet Union, the post Soviet countries and Qatar. 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. He died in Odessa after a heart attack. Prokopenko was 62 years old.

Personal facts

Birth date	October 24, 1944
Birth place	Soviet Union , Mariupol
Date of death	August 18, 2007
Place of death	Odessa , Ukraine
Height (meters)	1.86

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Football manager

club	FC Rotor Volgograd FC Dynamo Moscow FC Shakhtar Donetsk Ukraine national football team FC Chornomorets Odesa
teams	FC Krystal Kherson PFC Nyva Vinnytsia FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Chornomorets Odesa Frankfurter FC Viktoria