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Andriy Shevchenko
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{{Football player infobox |
playername = Shevchenko |
image =
Image:Andriy Shevchenko Champions League 2004 flag.jpg 200pxShevchenko with Ukrainian flag after
scoring the winning Penalty shootout (football) penalty in the
UEFA Champions League 2002-03 final |
fullname = Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko |
nickname = Sheva, The Eastern Wind|
dateofbirth =
September 29,
1976 |
cityofbirth = Dvirkivschyna |
countryofbirth =
Ukraine |
currentclub =
A.C. Milan |
position = Centre forward |
youthyears =
1986-
1994 |
youthclubs =
Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv junior teams |
years =
1994-
1999 991999- |
clubs =
Dynamo KyivA.C. Milan |
caps(goals) = 118 (60)201 (127) |
nationalyears =
1995- |
nationalteam =
Ukraine national football team Ukraine |
nationalcaps(goals) = 63 (28) |
pcupdate = March 8, 2006 |
ntupdate = November 8, 2005
}}
'''Andriy Shevchenko''' ({{lang-ua|Ð?ндрій Миколайович Шевченко, ''Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko''}}, nicknamed "Sheva", born
September 29,
1976,
Dvirkivschyna,
Kiev Oblast) is a
Ukraine Ukrainian soccer football player who is a striker for
A.C. Milan and the
Ukraine national football team Ukrainian national team.
Shevchenko started off his career with Ukrainian side
Dynamo Kyiv, with whom he won five league titles and two national cups in five seasons between
1994 and
1999. He has won one
Serie A title, one
UEFA Champions League, one
European Super Cup, one
Italian Cup and one
SuperCoppa Italiana Italian League Super Cup with Milan till now.
He was named the
European Footballer of the Year in
2004.
Shevchenko has represented Ukraine in 63 matches and scored 28 international goals.
Early life and Dynamo Kyiv career
Andriy was nine when the
Chernobyl disaster Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in
April 1986. His village, not far from Chernobyl, was also affected by the disaster, and his family was one amongst the thousands who had to abandon their homes and relocate to the coast to escape the after-effects. Later the same year, Andriy failed a dribbling test for entrance to a specialist sports school in Kyiv. But he happened to catch the sight of a Dynamo Kyiv scout while playing in a youth tournament, and was thus brought to the club. He was extremely successful in the youth system at the club, honing his skills in their junior teams. In
1990, Andriy, playing for the Dynamo Kyiv Under-14 team in the
Ian Rush Ian Rush Cup in
Wales, top scored in the tournament, and was awarded a pair of Rush's boots as prize by the
Liverpool F.C. Liverpool player himself.
In 1993-94, Andriy top-scored for Dynamo-2 with twelve goals, and made an appearance in the first team list for
FC Dynamo Kyiv for next season.
Andriy's debut in the league for Dynamo came under manager Yozef Szabo on 28 October 1994, in
Donetsk, Dynamo defeating the home team
Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1. He scored his first league goal in the 4-2 home win against
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro on December 1, 1994. Though that was the only goal that Shevchenko scored in the league that season, he scored another in two matches played in the
UEFA Champions League, and also earned his national team call-up. His first cap for Ukraine was earned at the age of 19 years and 177 days, in a 0-4 loss to
Croatia national football team Croatia on 25 March,
1995 at
Zagreb. Shevchenko's exceptional ability to convert scoring chances into goals was fully displayed next season, when he scored 16 goals in just 31 matches, taking Dynamo to their second successive league victory. He also scored his first international goal in May
1996, in a friendly against
Turkey national football team Turkey, at
Samsun. Shevchenko won the league again next season with Dynamo, scoring 6 goals in 20 games. The next two seasons, 1997-98 and 1998-99, were abundantly productive for Shevchenko. The highlight of his 1997-98 season was his first-half hat-trick against
FC Barcelona in the Champions League, helping Dynamo produce a shock 4-0 away win over the highly decorated Spanish side. His 19 goals in 23 league matches, 6 goals in 10 Champions League matches, and another league victory with Dynamo in 1997-98 was followed by 28 goals in all competitions in 1998-99, and the league top-scorer award for his 18 goals there. His exploits in the Champions League took Dynamo to the semifinal stage of the tournament, before they lost to
Bayern Munich 3-4 on aggregate.
Shevchenko won the domestic league with Dynamo each of the five seasons he was with the club. Under the guidance of
Valeri Lobanovsky, the manager of Dynamo from January
1997 to May
2002 (his third spell in the post), he flourished into one of the team's most prominent and skillful players.
AC Milan
In 1999 Shevchenko joined the then 5-time European Cup champions
A.C. Milan for $26 million and has been one of their key players since.
Shevchenko made his Serie A debut on August 28, 1999 in a 2-2 draw with
U.S. Lecce Lecce. The season turned out to be extremely fruitful personally, Shevchenko's haul of 24 league goals in 32 matches earned him the highest scorer title in the Serie A, Andriy becoming, in the process, the first non-Italian player to do so in his debut season. In March
2000, Lobanovsky was made the Ukrainian national team manager, with the aim to take Ukraine to the 2002 World Cup. Shevchenko scored 10 goals in the qualifiers, but Ukraine failed to qualify after losing the playoff against
Germany national football team Germany, and Lobanovsky was sacked.
The next two seasons Shevchenko scored 34 goals in 51 matches, and 17 goals 38 matches respectively, in all competitions, but Milan could not win any silverware either season.
The disappointment of the past two seasons was overcome in 2002-03 as Milan won the Champions League as well as the
Coppa Italia Italian Cup. Though Shevchenko was not in top goal-scoring form in the league, netting only five times in 24 matches, he scored the winning penalty in the Champions League final against arch-rivals
Juventus F.C. Juventus, giving Milan the title. Shevchenko is the first Ukrainian ever to win the Champions League.
2003-04 was another successful season for both Milan and Shevchenko. He top scored in the league for the second time in his career, scoring 24 goals in 32 matches and taking Milan to the league title after a gap of four years. He also scored the winning goal in the UEFA Super Cup against
FC Porto, Milan winning the match 1-0, and their second trophy of the season.
In December of 2004 Shevchenko was named the European Footballer of the Year. He was also named by
Pelé as one of the
FIFA 100 top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004. Also in 2004, Shevchenko was awarded the title
Hero of Ukraine by former
President of Ukraine Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.
In August 2004, Andriy scored three goals against
S.S. Lazio Lazio in the
SuperCoppa Italiana Italian Super Cup and earned Milan the title. In the same season of 2004-05, the club finished second in league standings, helped by the seventeen goals of Shevchenko. They also reached the final of the Champions League, with him scoring six goals in ten matches. But the successes of the season were greatly dampened in the final. The game against
Liverpool F.C. Liverpool ended 3-3 after extra-time, and went into penalties. Shevchenko missed his spot-kick, giving the English side the title.
In October 2005, Ukraine finally managed to qualify for the finals of a World Cup when they topped their qualification group for the 2006 World Cup, winning seven games out of twelve, and losing only one. Shevchenko was instrumental in this inspired performance by the team, scoring six goals out of the total eighteen by Ukraine.
During the summer of 2004 there were reports that
Roman Abramovich, the owner of
Chelsea F.C. Chelsea, offered a record sum of £50 million and striker
Hernán Crespo to A.C. Milan in exchange for Andriy. Milan refused but took Crespo on loan. After that, the determined Abramovich was rumoured to offer another record sum of £85 million to AC Milan and another record weekly wage of £225,000 to transfer him to Chelsea, but was again refused.
In the 2005-06 season, Shevchenko has scored 19 goals in the 22 games that he has played in the league till now, and 8 goals in 7 Champions League matches.
On November 23, 2005, in the Champions League group stage match against
Fenerbahçe SK Fenerbahçe, Shevchenko scored four times, becoming only the fifth man after
Marco van Basten,
Simone Inzaghi,
Dado Pršo and
Ruud van Nistelrooy to do so in one match in the competition. On April 4, 2006, Shevchenko overtook
Raúl González Raul as the all-time record goal scorer in the Champions League.
On Club records, he is the second all-time goalscorers, behind AC Milan legend
Gunnar Nordahl (Feb 2006, vs Treviso)
International goals
''all figures correct till November 08, 2005''
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Andriy Shevchenko: International Goals'''
| '''Sr. No.''' || '''Date''' || '''Venue''' || '''Opponent''' || '''Score''' || '''Result'''
|-
| 1. || May 1, 1996 || Samsun, Turkey || Turkey || 3-2 || Lost
|-
| 2. || April 2, 1997 || Kyiv, Ukraine || Northern Ireland || 2-1 || Won
|-
| 3. || May 7, 1997 || Kyiv, Ukraine || Armenia || 1-1 || Draw
|-
| 4. || October 11, 1997 || Yerevan, Armenia || Armenia || 0-2 || Won
|-
| 5. || November 15, 1997 || Kyiv, Ukraine || Croatia || 1-1 || Draw
|-
| 6. || July 15, 1998 || Kyiv, Ukraine || Poland || 1-2 || Lost
|-
| 7. || October 9, 1999 || Moscow, Russia || Russia || 1-1 || Draw
|-
| 8. || November 13, 1999 || Ljubljana || Slovenia || 2-1 || Lost
|-
| 9. || April 26, 2000 || Sofia, Bulgaria || Bulgaria || 0-1 || Won
|-
| 10. || September 2, 2000 || Kyiv, Ukraine || Poland || 1-3 || Lost
|-
| 11. || October 7, 2000 || Yerevan, Armenia || Armenia || 2-3 || Won
|-
| 12. || October 7, 2000 || Yerevan, Armenia || Armenia || 2-3 || Won
|-
| 13. || October 11, 2000 || Oslo, Norway || Norway || 0-1 || Won
|-
| 14. || March 28, 2001 || Cardiff, Wales || Wales || 1-1 || Draw
|-
| 15. || September 1, 2001 || Minsk, Belarus || Belarus || 0-2 || Won
|-
| 16. || September 1, 2001 || Minsk, Belarus || Belarus || 0-2 || Won
|-
| 17. || September 5, 2001 || Lviv, Ukraine || Armenia || 3-0 || Won
|-
| 18. || October 6, 2001 || Chorzow, Poland || Poland || 1-1 || Draw
|-
| 19. || November 14, 2001 || Dortmund, Germany || Germany || 4-1 || Lost
|-
| 20. || June 7, 2003 || Lviv, Ukraine || Armenia || 4-3 || Won
|-
| 21. || June 7, 2003 || Lviv, Ukraine || Armenia || 4-3 || Won
|-
| 22. || September 10, 2003 || Elche, Spain || Spain || 2-1 || Lost
|-
| 23. || October 9, 2003 || Kyiv, Ukraine || Greece || 1-1 || Draw
|-
| 24. || October 13, 2004 || Lviv, Ukraine || Georgia || 2-0 || Won
|-
| 25. || November 17, 2004 || Istanbul, Turkey || Turkey || 3-0 || Won
|-
| 26. || November 17, 2004 || Istanbul, Turkey || Turkey || 3-0 || Won
|-
| 27. || June 4, 2005 || Kyiv, Ukraine || Kazakhstan || 2-0 || Won
|-
| 28. || October 8, 2005 || Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine || Albania || 2-2 || Draw
|}
Personal
Andriy married
United States American model (person) model Kristen Pazik in
July 2004 with a private ceremony on a golf-field in Washington. The couple had a son, Jordan, on November 29 of that year, which he celebrated by scoring in the game against
Sampdoria the following day (AC Milan won 2-1). He looks up to the
UEFA Cup Winners Cup winning Dynamo Kyiv team of 1986, and also admires former football players
Pele,
Zico,
Michel Platini Platini, and
Romário.
He is a close friend of
Giorgio Armani and Sheva once walked the catwalk wearing a suit and for the italian stylist. During an after-fashion show-party the Ukrainian footballer met his current wife. Sheva and Giorgio opened an Armani Store together in Kiev.
Awards and honours
* '''Italian League Super Cup:''' 2004
* '''UEFA Super Cup:''' 2004
* '''Serie A:''' 2003-04
* '''Uefa Champions League:''' 2002-03
* '''Italian Cup:''' 2002-03
* '''Ukrainian league:''' 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99
* '''Ukrainian Cup:''' 1996, 1998
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Profile at ACMilan.com
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Profile on the official
UEFA site
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News article on official site of
FIFA
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News article on official site of AC Milan
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