Profile Andriy Shevchenko

Personal information

Full name : Andriy Mykolayovich Shevchenko

Date of birth : 29 September 1976 (age 34)

Place of birth : Dvirkivschyna, Soviet Union

Height : 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

Playing position : Striker

Current club :Dynamo Kyiv

Number : 7

Youth career :

1986–1994 Dynamo Kyiv

Senior career :

1994–1999 Dynamo Kyiv

1999–2006 Milan

2006–2009 Chelsea

2008–2009 → Milan (loan)

2009– Dynamo Kyiv

National team :

1994–1995 Ukraine U18

1994–1995 Ukraine U21

1995– Ukraine

Club career

Dynamo Kyiv

In 1986, Shevchenko malfunctioned a dribbling trial for gateway to a specialist sports college in Kyiv, but befallen to grab the eye of a Dynamo Kyiv scout whereas playing in a youth tournament, and was therefore brought to the club. Four years subsequent, Shevchenko was on the Dynamo Kyiv under-14 team for the Ian Rush Cup (now the Welsh Super Cup); he done as the tournament's lid scorer and was awarded a pair of Rush's kicks as a prize via the then-Liverpool player. In 1992–93, Shevchenko was the lid scorer for Dynamo-2 with twelve targets, and he prepared his first arrival in the beginning eleven. He won his second league name following season, scoring six targets in twenty suits, and scored a cap trap in the first half of a 1997–98 Champions League street suit against Barcelona, which Dynamo won 4–0. His nineteen targets in 23 league suits and six targets in ten Champions League suits were chased via 28 total targets in all contests in 1998–99. He won the servant league name with Dynamo in each of his five seasons with the club.

Milan

In 1999, Shevchenko stringed Italian club A.C. Milan for a then-record transfer payment of $25 million. He prepared his Serie A debut on 28 August 1999 in a 2–2 draw with Lecce. He became the first foreign actor to win the Serie A scoring name in his debut season, finalising with 24 targets in 32 matches. Shevchenko preserved his excellent model into 2000-01 season, scoring 24 targets in 34 matches. Andriy also handled to score 9 targets in 14 suits in the Champions League, however Milan malfunctioned to obtain past the second team stage. Despite netting merely five times in 24 suits, primarily due to injuries, Shevchenko became the first Ukrainian-born actor to win the Champions League afterwards Milan lifted their sixth trophy in 2002–03. He scored the winning punishment in the shoot out against arch-rivals Juventus in the final, which had ended goalless afterwards extra time. He done lid goalscorer in Serie A (2003–04) for the second time in his career, scoring 24 targets in 32 suits as Milan won the Scudetto for the first time in four years. Shevchenko capped off the year via being dubbed the 2004 European Player of the Year, becoming the third Ukrainian actor ever to win the award afterwards Oleg Blokhin and Igor Belanov. In the same year, Shevchenko was also inducted into the FIFA 100.

He scored seventeen targets in the 2004–05 season afterwards absent a figure of sport with a fractured cheekbone. Shevchenko prepared Champions League history the chasing season; on 23 November 2005, he scored all four targets in Milan's 4–0 group-stage beating of Fenerbahçe, becoming merely the fifth actor to achieve this feat (his corporation includes Marco van Basten, Simone Inzaghi, Dado Pršo and Ruud van Nistelrooy; Lionel Messi stringed that team in the 2009–10 season as well). Milan finally no where the tournament as shortly as Shevchenko missed the vital punishment in the final against Liverpool. In the 2005-06 season, he scored his final Milan target in the second leg of the quarterfinals as they eliminated Olympique Lyonnais afterwards a last-minute comeback, but thereafter plummeted to eventual winners Barcelona in the semifinals, a suit where Shevchenko controversially had a final tiny equalizer refused via the referee. Despite this, he motionless ended upward being the lid scorer of the entire competition with 9 targets in 12 games.

On eight February 2006, he became Milan's second highest all-time goalscorer, behind Gunnar Nordahl, afterwards netting against Treviso. He done the season as joint 4th lid scorer with 19 targets in 28 games. By now, Shevchenko was one of the majority dreaded and prolific strikers in the entire of Europe.

Chelsea

During the summer of 2005, there were persistent informs that Chelsea F.C. host Roman Abramovich presented a record sum of €75.2 million and striker Hernán Crespo to Milan in exchange for Shevchenko. Milan refused the monetary offer but took Crespo on loan. Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon was quoted as phrase, "I think Shevchenko is the breed of actor we would like. At the end of the day to renew what we have obtained, it has to be a great actor and Shevchenko constantly comes into that class."[5] Shevchenko mentioned that the persistence of Abramovich was a pivotal factor in his move.On 28 May 2006, Shevchenko retired Milan for Chelsea for £30.8 million, topping Michael Essien's transfer payment from the earlier year and also breaching the record for a actor gestured via an English club. He received the figure seven shirt, as Chelsea bus José Mourinho said that Shevchenko could extend fraying it.

Shevchenko prepared his debut for Chelsea on 13 August 2006 in the FA Community Shield, scoring his side's target in a 2–1 loss to Liverpool. On 23 August, he scored his first Premier League target — and his 300th in top-flight and global football — in a 2–1 loss to Middlesbrough. He scored targets sporadically during the season, encompassing equalisers against Porto and Valencia in the UEFA Champions League and another against Tottenham Hotspur to aid take his side into the FA Cup semifinals. He done with a total of 14 from 51 games. During the campaign he netted his 57th career target in European contests, retiring him second behind Gerd Müller on the all-time European goalscorers menu, ago Filippo Inzaghi prepared the record his possess in the 2007–08 season. Shevchenko's 2006–07 season was cut brief due to injury and a hernia operation. He missed the Champions League semi-finals against Liverpool and the FA Cup Final against Manchester United at the fresh Wembley Stadium on 19 May 2007.[10] He did however begin for Chelsea in the 2007 Football League Cup Final victory across Arsenal F.C. in which he hammered the bar which would have given Chelsea a 3–1 lead.

Shevchenko was handed his first begin of the season against Blackburn Rovers at home to wrap for the injured Didier Drogba, but the game done goalless. His first target of the season came three days subsequent in a suit against Rosenborg which was Jose Mourinho's final game as administrator of Chelsea. Throughout the season Shevchenko was in and out of the beginning lineup because of injuries and the appointment of Avram Grant chasing the withdrawal of José Mourinho. However, during the Christmas term Shevchenko relished a good run of model, he scored the first target in Chelsea's 2–0 win across Sunderland A.F.C. and he was dubbed Man of the Match in Chelsea's 4–4 draw against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge, scoring double encompassing a spectacular 25 yard shot into the lid retired hand corner of Villa's target, he also contributed Alex to produce the score 3–2 in Chelsea's favour. Shevchenko scored his final target in the 2007–08 season in the 1–1 draw with Bolton Wanderers F.C.. He done the season with five league targets in 17 games. Shevchenko played a fraction in a pre season suit which was against his prior team A.C. Milan.

Shevchenko wasn't accustomed very frequently in the beginning lineup at Chelsea, and with the appointment of Luiz Felipe Scolari he was deemed excess to requirements. Due to this, Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani presented to take Shevchenko rear to the San Siro, Shevchenko was lent rear to his old club Milan for the 2008–09 season. Shevchenko's second spell was unsuccessful, as he malfunctioned to score any league targets, and merely scored pair targets in 26 arrivals, however Shevchenko merely began nine games. At the end of the season, Milan confirmed that Shevchenko would be returning to Chelsea for the final year of his 4-year contract. At the end of that season it was also broadcast that Milan's administrator, Carlo Ancelotti, would also be retiring to attend Chelsea.

After earning a late arrival for Chelsea in their second game of the 2009–10 season, Ancelotti broadcast that Shevchenko would be possible to retire Chelsea ago the summer transfer window closed. Despite this, Ancelotti said it had nothingness to do with his verdict to retire Shevchenko out of Chelsea's 2009–10 Champions League squad, but just to extend playing first-team football.

Dynamo Kyiv

On 28 August 2009, Shevchenko gestured a two-year sell at his prior club Dynamo Kyiv and scored a penalty-goal in his first game upon returning to his prior club against FC Metalurh Donetsk in Dynamo's 3–1 victory on 31 August 2009. On 16 September 2009, Shevchenko played his first Champions League suit afterwards returning to Dynamo, against FC Rubin Kazan in Dynamo's first game of the UEFA Champions League 2009–10 season. In October 2009, he was dubbed the best actor of the Ukrainian Premier League. On 4 November 2009, he scored a target in the game against Internazionale, cross-city rivals of his prior club Milan, in the 4th game of the UEFA Champions League 2009–10 season. It was the 15th target he had scored against Inter in his career. On 25 August 2010 he scored a punishment against Ajax in the 2nd game against pair teams in degrees horizontal for UEFA Champions League 2010/2011 Season.

International career

Shevchenko has 100 caps and 45 targets for the Ukrainian national team, whom he represented at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He scored his first global target in May 1996, in a friendly against Turkey. In March 2000, Dynamo administrator Valeri Lobanovsky became the Ukraine bus, with the focus to qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals. Shevchenko scored ten targets in the qualifiers, but Ukraine malfunctioned to qualify afterwards losing a play-off against Germany. He scored a total of five targets in Ukraine's Euro 2008 qualifying round. After merely playing pair sport for Milan in the 2008-2009 season, there was a lot of speculation of Shevchenko being past his best[citation needed] but he silenced his critics afterwards scoring an equaliser in an 2010 World Cup qualifying suit against England at the Wembley Stadium, however Ukraine went on to lose the game 2–1 afterwards his prior Chelsea teammate John Terry had scored from a corner kick. In a 21 December 2009 interview with UEFA Shevchenko certified that he was eager to play in his home rural at Euro 2012. "After a discouraging 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign that is my fresh contest, or even dream. I shall do everything to achieve that.