Valeriy Porkujan

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Valeriy Porkujan
Personal information
Full name Valeriy Semenovych Porkuyan
Date of birth (1944-10-04) 4 October 1944 (age 79)
Place of birth
Ukrainian SSR
, Soviet Union
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7+12 in)
Position(s)
Forward
Youth career
1958–1962 Zirka Kirovohrad
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1964 Zirka Kirovohrad ? (21)
1965–1966 Chornomorets Odesa 21 (3)
1966–1970 Dynamo Kyiv 58 (12)
1970–1972 Chornomorets Odesa 64 (18)
1972–1975 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 103 (18)
International career
1966–1970
USSR
8 (4)
Managerial career
1976 Tavriya Simferopol
1977–1978
Okean Kerch
1982–1983 Chornomorets Odesa
1983–1993 Blaho Blahoeve
1994–1999 Chornomorets Odesa
1999–2000
Chornomorets-2 Odesa
2002–2017 Chornomorets Odesa (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Valeriy Semenovych Porkuyan (

USSR national football team
.

Playing career

Club

Porkuyan began playing for the youth team of

Valeri Lobanovsky
. He made the majority of his playing appearances with Dnipro in the 4 years he spent there. He retired from playing in 1976.

International

He earned 8 caps and scored 4 goals for the

USSR national football team. Incredibly he scored his four goals in his first three international matches during the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also was selected to play in the 1970 FIFA World Cup, but did not play any matches. He is the only active player of FC Chornomorets Odesa
to have featured in a World Cup team.

Coaching career

After retiring from playing he moved into coaching the following year in 1976, becoming assistant coach with SC Tavriya Simferopol. Along the way he had stints coaching amateur teams playing in the lower divisions. But since the 1980s he, almost continuously, has been connected with Chornomorets Odesa in a coaching capacity.

Honours

Club

Dynamo Kyiv

Individual

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