Victor Karpenko

Viktor Aleksandrovich Karpenko was born on 7 September 1977 in Tashkent. He is a former Uzbek midfielder who began at Buxoro in 1997 and played for Qizilqum Zarafshon in 1999. In 2000 he moved to Russia and played for Shinnik Yaroslavl (Russian First Division winners in 2001); on loan at Lokomotiv Chita in 2002 he scored 14 goals. In 2005-06 he played for Kairat in Kazakhstan.

From 2007 to 2012 he played for Bunyodkor, becoming one of its leading players and its captain; per English Wikipedia he made 202 appearances and scored 38 goals in five seasons. He won the Uzbek League (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and the Uzbek Cup (2008, 2010, 2012) and reached the AFC Champions League semi-finals (2008, 2012). On 26 January 2013 he signed for Lokomotiv Tashkent (league runner-up in 2013, Uzbek Cup 2014) and returned to Bunyodkor in August 2015. After retiring he became a coach at Bunyodkor.

He debuted for Uzbekistan in a friendly against Belarus on 2 April 2003 and was capped 61 times, scoring four goals, including seven qualifiers each for the 2006 and 2010 World Cups. He played his farewell national team match against Oman on 29 May 2014.