Viktor Onopko

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Viktor Onopko
Onopko honored by UEFA in 2011
Personal information
Full name Viktor Savelyevich Onopko
Date of birth (1969-10-14) 14 October 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth
Ukrainian SSR (now Luhansk, Ukraine
)
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
Rostov, Russia (assistant coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986 Stakhanovets Stakhanov 4 (0)
1986–1988 Shakhtar Donetsk 3 (0)
1989
Dynamo Kyiv
0 (0)
1990–1991 Shakhtar Donetsk 45 (4)
1992–1995 Spartak Moscow 108 (23)
1995–2002 Real Oviedo 216 (7)
2002–2003 Rayo Vallecano 28 (1)
2003–2004
Alania Vladikavkaz
7 (0)
2004–2005
Saturn
51 (1)
Total 462 (33)
International career
1992 CIS 4 (0)
1992–2004 Russia 109 (7)
Managerial career
2009–2020 CSKA Moscow (assistant)
2021– Russia (assistant)
2022– Rostov (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Viktor Savelyevich Onopko (Russian: Виктор Савельевич Онопко; born 14 October 1969) is a Russian football coach and a former footballer. He is the assistant manager of both FC Rostov in the Russian Premier League, as well as the Russia national team.

As a footballer, he played as a defender, and held the record for most international appearances for the Russia national team until 2015.[1]

Club career

Onopko's career as a player started in 1986. During this time he played for

Saturn Ramenskoye
. He retired as a player in 2005.

International career

Eligible to play for both the

Euro 2004 but was dropped due to injury. With the national team, in 2003 he won the Cyprus friendly tournament[2]

After retiring, in 2009, he was part of the Russia squad that won the 2009 Legends Cup.

Coaching career

Onopko worked for 11 years as an assistant coach for CSKA Moscow.

On 26 July 2021, he was hired as an assistant to

Valeri Karpin in the Russia national team.[3]

In February 2022, after

Russian invasion of Ukraine, Karpin returned as manager to FC Rostov and hired Onopko as his assistant there as well.[4][5]

Personal life

Onopoko was born in

Russian citizenships
.

Viktor has a younger brother, Serhiy, who also played as a professional footballer.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Stakhanovets Stakhanov 1986 4 0 0 0 4 0
Shakhtar Donetsk
1986
0 0 0 0 0 0
1987
0 0 0 0 0 0
1988
3 0 1 0 4 0
Total 3 0 1 0 0 0 4 0
Dinamo Kyiv
1989
0 0 0 0 0 0
Shakhtar Donetsk
1990
21 0 3 1 24 1
1991
24 1 1 0 25 1
Total 45 1 4 1 0 0 49 2
Spartak Moscow
1992
23 6 2 1 7 1 32 8
1993
30 9 4 0 9 4 43 13
1994
26 2 3 0 5 0 34 2
1995
29 6 1 0 6 0 36 6
Total 108 23 10 1 27 5 145 29
Real Oviedo 1995–96 19 1 19 1
1996–97 37 0 1 0 38 0
1997–98 31 0 31 0
1998–99 33 0 2 0 35 0
1999-00 31 2 1 0 32 2
2000–01 35 3 1 0 36 3
2001–02 30 1 30 1
Total 216 7 5 0 0 0 221 7
Rayo Vallecano 2002–03 28 1 1 0 29 1
Alania Vladikavkaz
2003
7 0 1 0 8 0
Saturn Ramenskoye
2004
26 1 5 0 31 1
2005
25 0 2 0 27 0
Total 51 1 7 0 0 0 58 1
Career total 458 33 29 2 27 5 514 40

Honours

Spartak Moscow

Individual

External links

See also

References

  1. ^ ИГНАШЕВИЧ ПОБИЛ РЕКОРД ОНОПКО ПО ЧИСЛУ МАТЧЕЙ ЗА СБОРНУЮ РОССИИ (in Russian). Sport Express. 8 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Cyprus International Tournament 2003".
  3. ^ ""Наша философия и понимание основных принципов игры совпадают"" (in Russian). Russian Football Union. 26 July 2021.
  4. ^ "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions". FIFA. 28 February 2022.
  5. ^ "ВИКТОР ОНОПКО ВОШЁЛ В ТРЕНЕРСКИЙ ШТАБ "РОСТОВА"" (Press release) (in Russian). FC Rostov. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.