Education
Kroshchenko is a product of the Dynamo Kyiv football academy that he finished in 1957 along with Andriy Biba and Oleh Bazylevych.
Kroshchenko is a product of the Dynamo Kyiv football academy that he finished in 1957 along with Andriy Biba and Oleh Bazylevych.
In 1957 he was listed on the roster for Football Club Dynamo Kyiv but never played a single game for the season. Next season Kroshchenko played for another team out of Kiev, South Carolina Kiev Military District. Later he played for such teams like Lokomotyv Vinnytsia, Shakhtar Stalino, and Avanhard Kharkiv.
In 1963 Kroshchenko joined the newly established Football Club Karpaty Lviv where he spent most of his sports career.
Foreign Karpaty he set several club record such as becoming the player who scored the first goal in domestic competitions and the first goal in international games. Foreign single season in 1966 Kroshchenko spend in Football Club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
After retiring from a playing career Kroshchenko coached several Soviet teams in Ukraine among which were Shakhtar Kadiyivka, Desna Chernihiv, Prometei Dniprodzerzhynsk, Okean Kerch, and Polissya Zhytomyr. After fall of the Soviet Union initially Kroshchenko coached Football Club Dynamo-3 Kyiv and Football Club Dynamo-2 Kyiv and later the Ukraine national under-19 football team taking it to the Fédération internationale de football association U-20 World Cup.
Simultaneously, in 2001 he also was appointed the head coach of Ukraine national under-21 football team
In 2003-2011 Kroshchenko was a head coach of the Dynamo Kyiv football academy.