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
Vynnyky
Vynnyky ( uk, Ви́нники, , pl, Winniki) is a city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It belongs to Lviv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. As of 2021, its population was estimated to be .
The city is part of Lych ...
, a suburb of
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...
, 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
FC Karpaty Lviv
Football Club Karpaty Lviv ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv.
History Early years (1963–68)
The team of Karpaty was founded on 18 January, 1963. In 1961 Silmash Lviv won the championship of Lviv Oblast but lost its p ...
.
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
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