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Victor Prokopenko died
A man of immense breadth of interests: his last club was the Moscow Dynamo, the last place of work was the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada
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He was 62. The language did not turn “the whole”-it was painfully Prokop, as the whole football world called him, the youthful-elegant. You will meet him at the pre-season training camps somewhere in Cyprus, you will hint at the forever flowering look and run away: “So the coaches, old man, they are not cabinet workers! If I were the president of the club, I would expel all pale and gloomy for the security. Know does not plow in the field. This, by the way, concerns journalists ... "
In a pocket for the word, Prokop as a player and a coach, who took place in Odessa, not that never climbed - he didn’t even reach out. At the same time, considering himself, in Ododesky, again, the standards, quite a stained wit: “I was familiar, for example, with a person who came up with the legendary joke: about a plane, falling in the sea, a whistle without a pea and a deaf shark. It was one Odessa Jew, a passionate fan, who was not released for so long that when he finally received permission, he issued an impromptu on the wires. But nothing, safely flew where necessary. "
The topic of sorties and trips in the early coaching years of Prokop was much more relevant than goals and glasses: “A variety of people helped in Odessa: jewelers, workshops and so on. And getting with the “Chernomore” for some foreign match for them was the most cherished dream. But who will release Moisha Abramovich with his intricate biography, even if he is registered for a while by the administrator of the team. Fortunately, there were also fans among our "office" curators - and a passport was straightened to a person in the name of Mikhail Arkadyevich. He traveled, trembling went through customs, bliss out at the imported stadium, wondered how to live in the West, and returned to enriched indispensable experience. Then he started his immediate work, but if you called him and asked Moisha Abramych, then the secretary threw up his eyebrows so that even by phone it was visible: “You probably Mikhal Arkadyich? ..”
Eh, Odessa football is the last quarter of the last century! “You’ll come with whom to play, ask how you are doing, sighing you, they will answer: with money it’s not very good, somewhere they resolve inside the club, do not always reach us. In Odessa, it was also, of course, not without it-but how was everything in a different way! We refused such a primitive definition as theft forever. In the course, the word "clip" was clear only to the Odessites. Apparently, a derivative of kleptomania. Yes, but with what intonations it was pronounced! If a person “clip”, but they could not take his hand, it caused universal admiration: “Look, he gives himself to live and the team!”
But they met, alas, in the city and people without humor: “They put to the team the next curator. And I was just flying to Germany, Werder to watch the UEFA Cup. And he stuck to me like a bath sheet: did the receiving side of women offer or not? I already tried to hint him, and such that I still feel good to get acquainted with women without intermediaries. Only, I say, next time tell me in advance that the mother is closer-so that I am with a blonde or with a brunette ... Well, he was offended and in his report-they then showed her-made me underground millionaire Koreiko.
More than one hundred thousand on some mythical books took it-all the workshops with jewelers would have rested. And I had a salary of 200 rubles. But, since the “signal” acted, acquaintances in uniform advised to blame the city - it is a pity that there was nothing to bury in the garden ... ”
Prokopenko felt the rich only once, at twenty years old, and more, said, such a feeling in life was no longer repeated: “My first professional team was a“ Niva ”. And then they give an apartment in the center of Vinnitsa. Service. One -room. And it doesn’t matter absolutely that two more partners settle in it. Once we divided her so much that who needed it, he turned out to be the sole master. I was ready to spend the night before the stadium, if only they were put in the composition. And then it turned out that if you give everything to football, then something can be obtained in return. Then I lived a lot where I lived, but I did not open a single door anymore with such joy. ”
It seemed to be used to the constant housing to the coach-Prokopenko moved with impressive ease from Odessa to Volgograd and back to Volgograd, from there to Donetsk, from Donetsk to Moscow ... And he really did not like it when they wanted to make, as he said, the “Nationalist trainers”: “I was born in the USSR. If there was such a questionnaire, with a clear conscience, I would have written that I have nothing to do with the country's collapse. I work all my life where they offer. I do not notice any borders between Ukraine with Russia. I worry the same way for both teams: when any of them loses, and even if not in fairness, there is a feeling that mercury was dug into the soul ... Understand: the game of football, it was not invented for separation of the peoples, but on the contrary ... ".
## Quotes from Prokopenko:
"Humanity is divided into two categories: just people and football arbitrators"
"Life is given to a person once, and it needs to live ... by the sea"
"If the rival came to your city and does not offer to draw, he has to give a fight."