Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko (Russian: Леонид Иванович Ткаченко; 1 October 1953[3] – 4 January 2024) was a Ukrainian-Russian football coach and a Soviet player.[4]
Career
Tkachenko spent most of his career playing for Metalist Kharkiv, leading the club to promotion from the Soviet First League to the Soviet Top League in 1981.[5]
Together with Mykola Pavlov he served as an interim coach for Ukraine national team when it contested Belarus in a friendly. He and Pavlov were assistant coaches to Viktor Prokopenko before then. Sometime in 2000, he relocated to the Russian Federation and obtained Russian citizenship.
Death
Tkachenko died on 4 January 2024, at the age of 70.[6]
Honours
- Russian Second Division Zone West best manager: 2005.[7]
References
- ^ "Леонид Ткаченко вернулся в "Балтику"". 1fnl.ru. 17 January 2019. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "В тренерский штаб "Балтики" вернулся легендарный экс-наставник команды Леонид Ткаченко". kaliningrad.kp.ru (in Russian). 8 June 2022. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ Александр Просветов (19 September 2021). "Леонид Ткаченко: "У нас иные футбольные руководители путают хавбеков с хэтчбеками"". Sportbox.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Балтийцы: Леонид Ткаченко". YouTube (in Russian). 23 August 2022. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ^ "Леонид Ткаченко – Вездесущий и всесильный двигатель истории харьковского "Металлиста"!". 9 March 2017.
- ^ Огромная утрата (in Russian)
- ^ "Заслуженный тренер Украины Леонид Ткаченко: Завершил тренерскую карьеру, потому что пришло какое-то время дураков". Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
External links
- Leonid Tkachenko at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)