Roman Kanafotskyi (Ukrainian: Роман Андрійович Канафоцький; 4 February 1938 – 9 April 2021[1]) was a Ukrainian professional football administrator and player.

Roman Kanafotskyi
Personal information
Full name Roman Andriyovych Kanafotskyi
Date of birth (1938-02-04)4 February 1938
Place of birth Horodok Yahaylivskyi, Polish Second Republic
(present day Ukraine)
Date of death 9 April 2021(2021-04-09) (aged 83)
Place of death Dnipro, Ukraine
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
195?–1958 Youth Sportive School Horodok
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1959 Avanhard Horodok (amateurs)
1959 Avanhard Ternopil 19 (0)
1960–1962 Naftovyk Drohobych 69 (1)
1963–1968 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 139 (2)
1969 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 28 (0)
1970 Trubnyk Nikopol
Managerial career
1972–2017 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (administrator)
2017–2021 SC Dnipro-1 (administrator)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing and chairman career

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Born in Horodok, Western Ukraine, Kanafotskyi was a product of the local youth sportive school. His first trained was S. Nyrko. He made his professional career in the different football teams of the Ukrainian SSR.[2]

Since 1972 he worked as an administrator with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and after that, with SC Dnipro-1.[1]

Death

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Kanafotskyi died on 9 April 2021 at the age of 83.[1]

References

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