Roman Mykhaylovych Pokora ( uk, Роман Михайлович Покора, 22 February 1948 – 8 March 2021) was a Ukrainian football player and manager who played most of his career as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

Career

Born in

Zboriv Zboriv ( uk, Зборів, pl, Zborów, yi, זבאָרעוו, Zbarav, russian: Зборов) is a town in Ternopil Raion of Ternopil Oblast, west Ukraine. It is located in the historical region of Galicia. Local government is administered by Zb ...

, Pokora lived in

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, a suburb of

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, since the age of 4. Pokora played four seasons in the

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level ...

for

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. Pokora was married and had two sons.

Honours

Karpaty Lviv *

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (russian: Кубок СССР),, be, Кубак СССР, uz, СССР Кубоги, kk, КСРО Кубогы, ka, სსრკ თასი, az, ССРИ кубоку, lt, TSRS taurė, ro, Cupa URSS ( Moldov ...

: 1969

References

External links

* Verbytsky, I.
Roman Pokora: Habovda drifted away, and we got scared that his death will be on our conscience (Роман Покора: Габовда поплыл, а мы испугались, что его смерть будет на нашей совести)
'. UA-Football. 18 January 2017. 1948 births 2021 deaths People from Zboriv Soviet footballers Ukrainian footballers Association football midfielders FC Karpaty Lviv players FC Metalist Kharkiv players FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk players Soviet Top League players Ukrainian football managers Soviet football managers CSF Bălți managers Ukrainian Premier League managers NK Veres Rivne managers FC Volyn Lutsk managers FC Polissya Zhytomyr managers FC Oleksandriya managers FC Nyva Vinnytsia managers MFC Mykolaiv managers FC Helios Kharkiv managers FC Enerhetyk Burshtyn managers FC Skala Stryi (1911) managers FC Halychyna Drohobych managers Ukrainian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Azerbaijan Expatriate football managers in Georgia (country) Sportspeople from Ternopil Oblast {{USSR-footy-bio-stub