Andriy Shevchenko

Andriy Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Андрі́й Микола́йович Шевче́нко, born 29 September 1976) is a former Ukrainian football player and former politician. He is currently a football manager. He played for Dynamo Kyiv, Milan and Chelsea football teams. He was the captain of Ukrainian national football team.

Andriy Shevchenko
Андрій Шевченко
Shevchenko as Ukraine manager in 2017
President of the Ukrainian Association of Football
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 January 2024
Preceded by	Oleh Protasov
Personal details
Born	Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko[1] (1976-09-29) 29 September 1976 (age 48)[2] Dvirkivshchyna, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party	SDPU(u) (1998–2005) Ukraine – Forward! (2012)
Spouse(s)	Kristen Pazik ​ (m. 2004)​
Children	4
Relatives	Mike Pazik (father-in-law)
Occupation	Politician footballer manager
Association football career Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[3] Position(s) Striker Youth career 1986–1993 Dynamo Kyiv Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1993–1996 Dynamo-2 Kyiv 51 (16) 1993–1999 Dynamo Kyiv 117 (60) 1999–2006 AC Milan 208 (127) 2006–2009 Chelsea 48 (9) 2008–2009 → AC Milan (loan) 18 (0) 2009–2012 Dynamo Kyiv 55 (23) Total 497 (235) International career 1994–1995 Ukraine U19 8 (5) 1994–1995 Ukraine U21 7 (6) 1995–2012 Ukraine 111 (48) Managerial career 2016–2021 Ukraine 2021–2022 Genoa *Club domestic league appearances and goals

Shevchenko is one of the highest scorers in all European competitions.

Biography

Andriy Shevchenko was born in the village of Dvirkivshchyna, Yahotyn district, Kyiv region. Three years after the birth of their son, the Shevchenko family moved to Kyiv, to the Obolon district. There Andrew went to the first class of the 216th high school. At the age of 9 he got into the football section. The first coach is Alexander Shpakov. Parents were initially skeptical of their child's fascination, but the coach was able to convince them.

In 1990, the 14-year-old Dynamo won the Ian Rush Cup in Wales, and Shevchenko became the tournament's top scorer and received a pair of boots from Ian Rush himself. In 1991, the "Dynamo" boys won the USSR championship among boys born in 1976. The team traveled to international tournaments in Europe, including the San Siro in Milan.

Andriy Shevchenko's first appearance in adult football took place in the 1992/93 season. With 12 goals, he became the top scorer of the first league team "Dynamo-2". Then he was invited to the Olympic team of Ukraine, and he appeared in the major leagues. He was first replaced on November 8, 1994 (the game with Shakhtar). At that time, the Dynamo team was coached by Jozef Szabo.

Career statistics

Club

Source:^[source?]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Cup[a]		Europe		Other[b]		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo-2 Kyiv	1992–93	Ukrainian First League	6	0	—		—		—		6	0
	1993–94	Ukrainian First League	31	12	1	0	—		—		32	12
	1994–95	Ukrainian First League	13	4	4	5[c]	—		—		17	9
	1996–97	Ukrainian First League	1	0	—		—		—		1	0
	Total		51	16	5	5	—		—		56	21
Dynamo Kyiv	1994–95	Vyshcha Liha	17	1	4	1	2	1	—		23	3
	1995–96	Vyshcha Liha	31	16	5	1	2	2	—		38	19
	1996–97	Vyshcha Liha	20	6	—		—		—		20	6
	1997–98	Vyshcha Liha	29	25	8	8	10	6	—		41	39
	1998–99	Vyshcha Liha	26	18	4	5	14	10	—		44	33
	Total		117	60	21	15	28	19	—		166	94
Milan	1999–2000	Serie A	32	24	4	4	6	1	1	0	43	29
	2000–01	Serie A	34	24	3	1	14	9	—		51	34
	2001–02	Serie A	29	14	3	0	6	3	—		38	17
	2002–03	Serie A	24	5	4	1	11	4	—		39	10
	2003–04	Serie A	32	24	1	0	10	4	2	1	45	29
	2004–05	Serie A	29	17	—		10	6	1	3	40	26
	2005–06	Serie A	28	19	—		12	9	—		40	28
	Total		208	127	15	6	69	36	4	4	296	173
Chelsea	2006–07	Premier League	30	4	6	3	10	3	5	4	51	14
	2007–08	Premier League	17	5	1	0	5	1	2	3	25	9
	Total		48	9	7	3	15	4	7	7	77	23
Milan (loan)	2008–09	Serie A	18	0	1	1	7	1	—		26	2
Chelsea	2009–10	Premier League	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Dynamo Kyiv	2009–10	Ukrainian Premier League	21	7	2	0	6	1	—		29	8
	2010–11	Ukrainian Premier League	18	10	2	1	12	5	—		32	16
	2011–12	Ukrainian Premier League	16	6	1	0	5	0	—		22	6
	Total		55	23	5	1	23	6	—		83	30
Career total			498	235	54	31	142	67	11	10	705	343

1. 12 goals not included with the Dynamo Kyiv in Commonwealth of Independent States Cup ('96–'98).
2. Other tournaments include Supercoppa Italiana, Community Shield, Football League Cup and Intercontinental Cup.
3. 5 of its 6 goals were marked with the FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv in Ukrainian Cup.^[4]

International

Main article: List of international goals scored by Andriy Shevchenko

Anatoliy Tymoshchuk and Shevchenko being honoured by UEFA in 2011 for their 100th cap. They are the first and third, respectively, most capped players in the history of Ukraine.

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[5][6]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Ukraine	1995	2	0
	1996	2	1
	1997	8	4
	1998	6	1
	1999	9	2
	2000	5	5
	2001	7	6
	2002	3	0
	2003	8	3
	2004	6	4
	2005	6	2
	2006	9	5
	2007	8	3
	2008	7	3
	2009	8	4
	2010	6	2
	2011	5	1
	2012	6	2
Total		111	48

Managerial statistics

As of match played 13 January 2022^[7]

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Ukraine		15 July 2016	1 August 2021	52	25	13	14	048.1
Genoa		7 November 2021	15 January 2022	11	1	3	7	009.1
Total				63	26	16	21	041.3

Honours

Shevchenko's 2005 Golden Foot imprint

Dynamo Kyiv^[8][5]

• Vyshcha Liha: 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99
• Ukrainian Cup: 1995–96, 1997–98, 1998–99
• Ukrainian Super Cup: 2011
• Commonwealth of Independent States Cup: 1996,^[9] 1997,^[10] 1998^[11]

AC Milan^[8][5]

• Serie A: 2003–04
• Coppa Italia: 2002–03
• Supercoppa Italiana: 2004
• UEFA Champions League: 2002–03;^[12] runner-up: 2004–05^[13]
• UEFA Super Cup: 2003^[14]

Chelsea^[8][5]

• FA Cup: 2006–07
• Football League Cup: 2006–07^[15]
• UEFA Champions League: runner-up: 2007–08^[16]

Individual

• Ballon d'Or: 2004^[17]
• Ukrainian Footballer of the Year: 1997,^[18] 1999,^[18] 2000,^[18] 2001,^[18] 2004,^[18] 2005^[18]
• CIS Cup top goalscorer: 1997 (shared)^[10]
• CIS Cup Team of the Competition: 1997^[10]
• Vyscha Liha Footballer of the Year: 1997^[18]
• UEFA Champions League top scorer: 1998-1999 (8 goals), 2005-2006 (9 goals)
• ESM Team of the Year: 1999–2000,^[19] 2003–04,^[19] 2004–05^[19]
• UEFA Club Forward of the Year: 1998–99^[20]
• UEFA Team of the Year: 2004,^[21] 2005^[22]
• Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year: 2000^[23]
• Serie A top scorer: 1999-00 (24 goals), 2003–04 (24 goals)
• Serie A Goal of the Year: 2004^[24]
• Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States Footballer of the Year: 2004,^[25] 2005^[25]
• Golden Foot: 2005^[26]
• FIFPro World XI: 2005^[27]
• FIFA 100^[28][29]
• AC Milan Hall of Fame^[30]
• Pallone d'Argento: 2003–04 ^[31]
• L'Équipe Team of the Year: 2004, 2005.^[32][33]
• World Soccer's 100 Greatest Players of the 20th Century^[34]
• World's best man national coach of the decade 2011-2020, ranked by IFFHS: 17th place^[35]
• World's best man national coach of year, ranked by IFFHS:
  • 8th place - 2019^[36]
  • 9th place - 2020^[37]

Orders

• Hero of Ukraine: 2004^[38]
• Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia: 2018^[39]

Coach work

The national team of Ukraine

On February 16, 2016, he joined the coaching staff of the national team of Ukraine headed by Mykhailo Fomenko. The first match of the Shevchenko-coach was a friendly game of the national team of Ukraine against the national team of Cyprus, in which the Ukrainians won. He was in the coaching staff during Euro 2016. After the tournament, he became the head coach of the national team of Ukraine. His coaching staff included several foreign experts, including Italians Andrea Mulder and Mauro Tasotti. Mykola Vasylkov, a well-known Ukrainian TV presenter, journalist, and school friend of Shevchenko, became an adviser to the coaching staff on publicity issues.

In July 2016, Shevchenko announced that he would give up a friendly match with the Georgian national team before qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.^[40] In the end, Ukraine took third place in the group, beating the teams of Iceland and Croatia.

Despite the failure in the selection for the 2018 World Cup, Andriy's contract with the national team of Ukraine was extended.

Political and social activities

In 1998, Shevchenko joined the SDPU (O). And, as Viktor Medvedchuk claimed in an interview with Ukrayinska Pravda, he remained a member until at least mid-June 2005.^[41] In the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on October 28, 2012, Andriy Shevchenko became the second number in the list of Natalia Korolevska's party "Ukraine - Forward!"^[42] and contributed 10 million hryvnias in support of this political force. Despite this, the party "Ukraine - Forward!" did not get into parliament, gaining 322,198 votes in Ukraine, or 1.58% of the total number of people who took part in the election.

In May 2018, he signed a letter demanding the release of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, a prisoner in Russia.^[43]

Personal life

• His father, Mykola Hryhorovych Shevchenko, was a soldier and a pentathlete;
• Mother — Lyubov Shevchenko;
• Older sister — Olena;
• Wife — Kristen Pazik (August 11, 1978, Minneapolis, USA) — model;^[44][5]
  • son — Jordan Shevchenko (October 29, 2004);
  • son — Christian Shevchenko (November 13, 2006);^[5][45][46]
  • son — Alexander Shevchenko (October 1, 2012);
  • son — Ryder—Gabriel Shevchenko (April 6, 2014);
• uncle — Vladimir Shevchenko.^[47]