All Football Players: Andriy Shevchenko Ukraine Best Footballer

Friday 15 June 2012

Andriy Shevchenko Ukraine Best Footballer

Full name: Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko
Date of birth: 29 September 1976
Age: 35
Nationality: Ukraine
Place of birth: Dvirkivschyna, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height: 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight: 159 kg
Playing position: Striker
Current club: Dynamo Kyiv
Number: 7
Foot: both
Market value: 4.400.000 £
5.000.000 €
Player's agent: Oscar Damiani

Andriy Shevchenko was purchased from AC Milan for a Chelsea record fee of close-on 30 million on the final day of May 2006. He signed a four year contract.

The arrival prompted Jos Mourinho to declare: Today is a day when the dream became reality. Andriy has always been my first choice for Chelsea since I arrived. Before it was not possible, now it is for real. He has great qualities, ambition, discipline, tactical awareness and of course he is a great goalscorer.

Shevchenko began his professional career at Dynamo Kiev in his Ukraine homeland, winning five league titles and two national cups in five seasons between 1994 and 1999.

He came to prominence across Europe when scoring a first-half hat-trick in a Champions League win against Barcelona at Camp Nou in the 1997-98 season. The season after, he spearheaded Kiev into the semi-finals of the competition. The giants of AC Milan came calling, paying a transfer fee of $26 million.