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Andriy Shevchenko
Personal information
Full name Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Chelsea
Number 7
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 March 2008

Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko ([Андрій Миколайович Шевченко, Andrij Mykolajovyč Ševčenko] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), born September 29, 1976, Dvirkivschyna, Kiev Oblast) is a Ukrainian football striker who plays for Chelsea in the English Premier League. In 2004, he won the Ballon D'or and was included in Pelé's FIFA 100. He is the third-highest goalscorer in the history of European club competition with 60, behind Gerd Müller and Filippo Inzaghi.[1]

Biography

Shevchenko was nine when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in April 1986. His village was affected by the disaster, and his family was forced to abandon their home and relocate to the coast to escape the aftereffects.[2] At an early age, he was a competitive boxer in the LLWI Ukrainian junior league, but due to his lack of size, he elected to move on to football.

Club career

Dynamo Kyiv

In 1986, Shevchenko failed a dribbling test for entrance to a specialist sports school in Kiev, but happened to catch the eye of a Dynamo Kyiv scout while playing in a youth tournament, and was thus brought to the club. Four years later, Shevchenko was on the Dynamo Kyiv under-14 team for the Ian Rush Cup (now the Welsh Super Cup) in Wales; he finished as the tournament's top scorer and was awarded a pair of Rush's boots as a prize by the then-Liverpool player.[2]

In 1992-93, Shevchenko was the top scorer for Dynamo-2 with twelve goals, and he made his first appearance in the starting eleven. He won his second league title next season, scoring 6 goals in 20 matches, and scored a hat trick in the first half of a 1997-98 Champions League road match against FC Barcelona, which Dynamo won 4-0. His nineteen goals in 23 league matches and six goals in ten CL matches were followed by 28 total goals in all competitions in 1998-99. He won the domestic league title with Dynamo in each of his five seasons with the club.

A.C. Milan

In 1999, Shevchenko joined A.C. Milan for a then-record transfer fee of $25 million. He made his Serie A debut on 28 August 1999 in a 2-2 draw with U.S. Lecce. He became the first foreign player to win the Serie A scoring title in his debut season, finishing with 24 goals in 32 matches.

Despite netting only five times in 24 matches, Shevchenko became the first Ukrainian-born player to win the Champions League after Milan lifted their sixth trophy in 2002-03. He scored the winning penalty in the shoot out against arch-rivals Juventus F.C. in the final, which had ended goalless after extra time. He Finnished Top Goalscorer in Serie A (2003-04) for the second time in his career, scoring 24 goals in 32 matches as Milan won the Scudetto for the first time in four years. Shevchenko capped off the year by being named the 2004 European Player of the Year, becoming the third Ukrainian player ever to win the award after Oleg Blokhin and Igor Belanov.

He scored seventeen goals in the 2004–05 season after missing several games with a fractured cheekbone. Shevchenko made Champions League history the following season; on 23 November 2005, he scored all four goals in Milan's 4-0 group-stage drubbing of Fenerbahçe SK, becoming only the fifth player to accomplish this feat (his company includes Marco van Basten, Simone Inzaghi, Dado Pršo and Ruud van Nistelrooy). He scored his last Milan goal in the second leg of the quarterfinals as they eliminated Olympique Lyonnais after a last-minute comeback, but then fell to eventual winners Barcelona in the semifinals.

On 8 February 2006, he became Milan's second all-time goalscorer, behind Gunnar Nordahl, after netting against Treviso.[3]

Chelsea

It is useless hiding things — I was with the president, we talked of many things and also about the possibility that I could leave. There hasn't been a definitive decision. I want to be clear, we are only talking. This has nothing to do with my relationship with Milan, there has always been a great deal of affection, as with my team mates and coaches. The decision that I am considering regards above all my family...

Andriy Shevchenko[4]

During the summer of 2005, there were persistent reports that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich offered a record sum of €85 million (£56.7 million) and striker Hernán Crespo to A.C. Milan in exchange for Shevchenko.[5] Milan refused the monetary offer but took Crespo on loan. Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon was quoted as saying, "I think Shevchenko is the type of player we would like. At the end of the day to improve what we have got, it has to be a great player and Shevchenko certainly comes into that class."[6] Shevchenko cited that the persistence of Abramovich was a key factor in his move.[7]

On May 28, 2006, Shevchenko left Milan for Chelsea for a record fee of £30 million, topping Michael Essien's transfer fee from the previous year. [8] He received the number seven shirt, as Chelsea coach José Mourinho said that Shevchenko could continue wearing it.[9]

Shevchenko with Chelsea

Shevchenko made his debut for Chelsea on August 13, 2006 in the FA Community Shield, scoring his side's goal in a 2–1 loss to Liverpool. On August 23, he scored his first FA Premier League goal — and his 300th in top-flight and international football — in a 2–1 loss to Middlesbrough. He scored goals sporadically throughout the season, including equalisers against FC Porto and Valencia CF in the UEFA Champions League and another against Tottenham Hotspur to help take his side into the FA Cup semifinals. He finished with a total of 14 from 51 games. During the campaign he netted his 57th career goal in European competitions, leaving him second behind Gerd Muller on the all-time European goalscorers list, before Filippo Inzaghi made the record his own in the 2007-08 season.[10] Shevchenko's 2006–07 season was cut short 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 new Wembley Stadium on May 19, 2007.[11]

Shevchenko was handed his first start of the 2007-08 season against Blackburn Rovers at home to cover for the injured Didier Drogba, but the game finished goalless. His first goal of the season came three days later in a match against Rosenborg BK, on September 18, 2007. Shevchenko was in and out of the starting lineup because of injuries and the appointment of Avram Grant, and finished with five league goals for the season.

International career

Shevchenko has 79 caps and 36 goals for the Ukraine national team, whom he represented at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He scored his first international goal in May 1996, in a friendly against Turkey.

In March 2000, Dynamo manager Valeri Lobanovsky became the Ukraine coach, with the aim to qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals. Shevchenko scored 10 goals in the qualifiers, but Ukraine failed to qualify after losing a play-off against Germany. He scored a total of five goals in Ukraine's Euro 2008 qualifiers.

Personal life

Shevchenko

Shevchenko is married to American model Kristen Pazik. The couple met at a Giorgio Armani afterparty in 2002, and married on July 14, 2004 in a private ceremony on a golf course in Washington, DC.[12][13] They communicate with each other in Italian,[14] though Shevchenko has made public his desire to learn English.[15] Media commentators have speculated that Pazik was a major influence on Shevchenko's decision to sign with Chelsea, citing her friendship with Abramovich's wife and her desire to raise their children in an English-speaking culture. Shevchenko has stated that his move to Chelsea was "a family decision" about what was best for their children.[12]

The couple has two sons, Jordan (named after NBA legend Michael Jordan),[14] born on 29 October 2004, and Christian, born on 10 November 2006. Andriy commemorated Jordan's birth by scoring against Sampdoria the following day (AC Milan won 1–0).[16] AC Milan supremo Silvio Berlusconi is the Godfather of Andriy's first son, Jordan.[17] The day after Christian's birth, Shevchenko scored in a 4–0 Chelsea victory over Watford, and he and several of his teammates gathered and performed the popular "rock-the-baby" goal celebration as a tribute.[18]

Shevchenko is a close friend of fashion designer Giorgio Armani, and has modelled for Armani and opened two boutiques with him in Kyiv.[12] In June 2005, he became an ambassador for the SOS Children's Villages charity.[19] He and his family currently reside in Virginia Water, Surrey.

Name

Shevchenko's first name (Андрій in Ukrainian) does not have a single way of being transliterated from its original spelling in the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet. Andriy is the spelling used throughout the player's official web site ([1]). It has also been adopted by UEFA and FIFA and is the preferred spelling in most English publications (although Andrii is used by World Soccer magazine and Andrei by Sky Sports). The correct pronunciation is [an.ˈdrij]. Dynamo Kyiv fans gave him the nickname Sheva,[citation needed] a contraction of Shevchenko.

Career statistics

Club career

(As of 11 May, 2008)

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International career

(As of March 27, 2008)
National team Season Apps Goals
Ukraine 1994–95 2 -
1995–96 2 1
1996–97 6 2
1997–98 4 3
1998–99 8 -
1999–00 7 3
2000–01 7 5
2001–02 6 5
2002–03 6 2
2003–04 4 1
2004–05 8 5
2005–06 9 4
2006–07 4 2
2007–08 7 4
Career Totals 80 37

International goals

(As of March 27, 2008)
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 1 May 1996 Samsun, Turkey  Turkey 3–2 Lost Friendly
2. 2 April 1997 Kiev, Ukraine  Northern Ireland 2–1 Won WC 1998 Qual
3. 7 May 1997 Kiev, Ukraine  Armenia 1–1 Draw WC 1998 Qual
4. 11 October 1997 Yerevan, Armenia  Armenia 0–2 Won WC 1998 Qual
5. 15 November 1997 Kiev, Ukraine  Croatia 1–1 Draw WC 1998 Qual Playoff
6. 15 July 1998 Kiev, Ukraine  Poland 1–2 Lost Friendly
7. 9 October 1999 Moscow, Russia  Russia 1–1 Draw EC 2000 Qual
8. 13 November 1999 Ljubljana, Slovenia  Slovenia 2–1 Lost EC 2000 Qual Playoff
9. 26 April 2000 Sofia, Bulgaria  Bulgaria 0–1 Won Friendly
10. 2 September 2000 Kiev, Ukraine  Poland 1–3 Lost WC 2002 Qual
11. 7 October 2000 Yerevan, Armenia  Armenia 2–3 Won WC 2002 Qual
12.
13. 11 October 2000 Oslo, Norway  Norway 0–1 Won WC 2002 Qual
14. 28 March 2001 Cardiff, Wales  Wales 1–1 Draw WC 2002 Qual
15. 1 September 2001 Minsk, Belarus  Belarus 0–2 Won WC 2002 Qual
16.
17. 5 September 2001 Lviv, Ukraine  Armenia 3–0 Won WC 2002 Qual
18. 6 October 2001 Chorzow, Poland  Poland 1–1 Draw WC 2002 Qual
19. 14 November 2001 Dortmund, Germany  Germany 4–1 Lost WC 2002 Qual Playoff
20. 7 June 2003 Lviv, Ukraine  Armenia 4–3 Won EC 2004 Qual
21.
22. 10 September 2003 Elche, Spain  Spain 2–1 Lost EC 2004 Qual
23. 9 October 2004 Kiev, Ukraine  Greece 1–1 Draw WC 2006 Qual
24. 13 October 2004 Lviv, Ukraine  Georgia 2–0 Won WC 2006 Qual
25. 17 November 2004 Istanbul, Turkey  Turkey 0–3 Won WC 2006 Qual
26.
27. 4 June 2005 Kiev, Ukraine  Kazakhstan 2–0 Won WC 2006 Qual
28. 8 October 2005 Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine  Albania 2–2 Draw WC 2006 Qual
29. 8 June 2006 Luxembourg, Luxembourg  Luxembourg 0–3 Won Friendly
30. 19 June 2006 Hamburg, Germany  Saudi Arabia 0–4 Won WC 2006 Group H
31. 23 June 2006 Berlin, Germany  Tunisia 1-0 Won WC 2006 Group H
32. 6 September 2006 Kiev, Ukraine  Georgia 3–2 Won EC 2008 Qual
33. 11 October 2006 Kiev, Ukraine  Scotland 2–0 Won EC 2008 Qual
34. 12 September 2007 Kiev, Ukraine  Italy 1–2 Lost EC 2008 Qual
35. 13 October 2007 Glasgow, Scotland  Scotland 3–1 Lost EC 2008 Qual
36. 21 November 2007 Kiev, Ukraine  France 2–2 Draw EC 2008 Qual
37. 26 March 2008 Kiev, Ukraine  Serbia 2–0 Won Friendly

Honours

Club

Andriy Shevchenko

Individual

Notes and references

  1. ^ Chelsea 2-0 Levski Sofia
  2. ^ a b Andriy Shevchenko, the lethal weapon, FIFA, 29 November 2004
  3. ^ SHEVA 56 GOALS OFF NORDAHL, ACMilan.com, February 9, 2006
  4. ^ Peter ORourke, Sheva considers Milan exit, Sky Sports, 12 May 2006
  5. ^ AFP (2005-06-23). "Milan reject Chelsea's world record bid for Shevchenko". ABC. Retrieved 2008-01-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ Mourinho set for Shevchenko fight, BBC Sport, 16 May 2006
  7. ^ Abramovich lured me - Shevchenko, BBC Sport, 7/29/06
  8. ^ Shevchenko transfer completed, ChelseaFC.com, May 31, 2006
  9. ^ It's No. 7 for Sheva, ChelseaFC.com, June 2 2006
  10. ^ "Chelsea 2-0 Levski Sofia". BBC Sport. 2006-12-05. Retrieved 2007-06-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ "Shevchenko will miss FA Cup final". CNN/Reuters. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
  12. ^ a b c Eve, James (2006-09-03). "The hired assassin". The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
  13. ^ "American model wins most desirable Ukrainian football player". Pravda. 2004-07-23. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
  14. ^ a b "The £30 million man". The Daily Mail. 2006-09-12. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
  15. ^ "Sheva swaps Ferraris for family". China Daily. 2006-08-16. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
  16. ^ "Shevchenko gives AC Milan victory". CNN. 2004-10-30. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
  17. ^ Berlusconi : "I consider Sheva as my son"
  18. ^ Lovejoy, Joe (2006-11-12). "Chelsea 4 Watford 0: Drogba treble floors Watford". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
  19. ^ "Andriy Shevchenko pledges support for SOS Children's Villages" (Press release). FIFA.com. 2005-06-16. Retrieved 2007-05-20.

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